The WWALS Advisory Committee advises the WWALS Board and staff and committees.

If you’re interested in becoming a WWALS Advisor, here is a letter explaining what WWALS is and what the WWALS Advisory Committee does.

Here is an application form.

• Dave Hetzel (WWALS Ambassador and Advisory Committee Chair),
  Dave is a former Tifton City Council member, a charter WWALS Board member, and a former WWALS President. As the first WWALS board member to be term-limited, the board asked Dave Hetzel to Chair the new Advisory Committee, and to retain the title of WWALS Ambassador. Both titles were reconfirmed by the WWALS Board July 14, 2019, even as it elected Dave anew to the WWALS Board.
  
• Steve Golladay, stream ecologist, The Jones Center at Ichauway
  
• Jim Barrett, Woodlands Manager, The Langdale Company, Valdosta, GA
  
• Joe LaForest, IPM and Forest Health Specialist, Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health (bugwood.org), Tifton, GA
  
• Elizabeth McCarty, Forest Health Specialist, Warnell School of Forestry & Natural Resources, University of Georgia, Tifton, GA
  
• Bret Wagenhorst, Ophthalmologist, Tifton, GA Charter WWALS board member, term-limited from the WWALS board
  

  
  Photo: John S. Quarterman, Little River, first day of Paddle Georgia, 2019-06-15, Bret Wagenhorst, WWALS board member, 07:54:17, 30.8515500, -83.3477600

• Garry Gentry, Financial Advisor, Tifton, GA
  Garry is the WWALS Secretary and a charter WWALS board member. Since July 14, 2019, he is the WWALS board member on this Committee required by the bylaws