Seth Cassell is State Forester/Director of the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Bureau of Forestry. In his role, he is responsible for overseeing management of the 2.2 million acre, third-party certified State Forest system and conserving and protecting the health of the Commonwealth’s forests and native wild plants. Cassell has served the Bureau of Forestry in various roles since 2000, in field forestry, urban forestry, communications, land acquisitions and resource planning.
Cassell graduated from Penn State in 1998 with a B.A. in Journalism and minor in Wildlife and Fisheries Science. In 2002, he earned a Master of Forest Resources from Penn State under Dr. Jim Finley.
Seth has also served in the Air National Guard since 1994 as an aircraft mechanic, pilot and now squadron commander and Lieutenant Colonel.