Senior Forester: Hob Calhoun Hob Calhoun joined the staff of TreeUtah in the fall of 2009 and oversees our urban and community forestry programs. Mr. Calhoun earned a master’s degree in forest science from the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. He has held a number of professional positions in the nonprofit sector, which includes over twenty years of experience in all aspects of urban forestry, arboriculture, land management and land use planning. This experience includes nine years managing over 50 forested preserves for a statewide land trust in Rhode Island, and over five years as the urban and community forester for Prince George’s County in suburban Washington, D.C. Mr. Calhoun has also served as an environmental educational consultant for the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and the Smithsonian Institution. He a founding board member of several not-for-profits including the New England Environmental Education Association, the Western Shore Conservancy of the Central Atlantic States, and a local organization, GreenTree Yoga of Utah, which provides free yoga programs in Utah schools. Mr. Calhoun is an enthusiastic naturalist and spends much of his leisure time hiking, camping, backpacking, snowshoeing and generally exploring the varied, rich ecosystems of the intermountain west with his spouse, Sandra McIntyre. In 2002, he bicycled the entire 2,200-mile Atlantic coastline of the U.S. from northern Maine, where he was living at the time, to Florida.