Scot Loring has worked as a biologist for a variety of Pacific Northwest entities for 25 years, 21 primarily as a consultant for the federal government. He is the founder and owner of Pacific Crest Consulting LLC, an environmental consulting company. He has inventoried many thousands of acres, discovered new species, new genera, and documented numerous other rare and interesting species occurrences within the Pacific Northwest. He also works with truffles at the USFS Forestry Sciences Laboratory in Corvallis. He is currently involved in co-authoring the upcoming book Rare Truffles of Oregon.
