Tom DeGomez is an Extension faculty member with University of Arizona. He is an Area Agent serving Coconino and Mojave Counties and a Regional Specialist for forest health. His office is on the Northern Arizona University campus in the School of Forestry. Tom received a Ph.D. in Forest Entomology from NAU in 2002. He was deeply involved in the 2002-04 bark beetle epidemic in Arizona and continues to work on bark beetle projects that apply to private land owners. In his 28 years with Cooperative Extension he has authored dozens of publications including the popular tree selection book “Beyond the Ponderosa: Successful Landscape Trees for the High Elevations of the Southwest”. In the spring of 2012 he taught an urban forest health course at Universidade de Tras-os-Montes e Alto Douro in Villa Real, Portugal, and in the summer and fall of 2012 he was a Fulbright Fellow at Visayas State University in the Philippines where he taught forest health.