Paul was born and raised in Seattle, and he grew up camping, hiking with family and Scouts. Paul attended Roosevelt Highschool (same colors as the Darrington Loggers!), then went on to the University of Washington College of Forestry, where he obtained his BS and Foster School of Business, MBA. Being a city kid, who had grown to love forestry, Paul continued his retreat into the woods and moved to Darrington in 1988 (a happy Seattle refugee). Paul is now the President of Atterbury Consultants, a forestry consulting firm, and he is also the instructor for Atterbury’s Professional Timber Cruising Seminar. He maintains professional relationships and involvement or membership with Society of American Foresters, Timber Measurements Society, WA Farm Forestry Association, Council on Forest Engineering, American Tree Farm System inspector. Paul also places high value on his community, and participates in many local organizations, including Darrington Strong, Friends for Public Use, Friends of North Mountain Lookout, and Darrington Historical Society.

Paul has decades of experience cruising old growth and second growth forests laying out logging roads, designing harvest settings and administering timber sales. He has been employed by both government agencies and private companies for inventory purposes, CFI (permanent plot) measurement, timberland acquisition, timber sales, and appraisal. Paul also has field experience collecting data on wildlife, botanical, disease and ecological information, and preparing Forest Management Plans for private landowners. Paul is fairly proficient in all the techy stuff that makes modern forestry fun and efficient and fairly proficient in all the regulatory stuff that makes forestry not so fun and efficient.