Professor Hoover is a nationally recognized expert in the application of
the federal income and estate tax laws to family forest owners and has lectured
throughout the United States on this subject. He writes a tax column for the
Tree Farmer magazine, has been an author of the last four editions of the
U.S. Forest Service’s official tax publication, Forest Owners’ Guide to the
Federal Income Tax, and is founder and chairman of the National Timber Tax
Website, http://www.timbertax.org He was also the editor of the Timber Tax Journal from Volume 15 to 20, at which time it ceased
publication. He teaches forest economics and watershed management at Purdue
University and conducts research on tax policy. Professor Hoover resides in West
Lafayette, Indiana.
Mr. Koontz obtained his MS under Professor Hoover and has continued to
work with him in the development of the National Timber Tax Website as webmaster
and primary respondent to questions submitted to the site. He is also developing
timber depletion accounting software. Mr. Koontz resides in Meridian, Idaho.