​CWM Software, LLC is a software company started by me, Dr. Carl Mize.  About 40 years ago, I worked with two colleagues at Iowa State University, Dr. Joe Colletti, a forest economist, and Dr. Steve Jungst, a forest biometrician, to develop Iowa TIGER, the first TIGER program, as a teaching tool and for use by forest consultants and woodlot owners.   In 2002, Dick Hall, a woodlot owner in Wisconsin with a strong interest in woodlot management, suggested developing a version of TIGER for Wisconsin.  I, as an individual, obtained a copy of Iowa TIGER, began to develop Wisconsin TIGER, and started CWM Software.

The goal of CWM Software is to develop easy-to-use tools (the TIGER programs) that can be used by woodland owners, foresters, and other interested individuals to help make decisions about how to manage a woodland to meet an owner's objectives and to develop a teaching tool that can be used by forestry professors in classes on forest measurements, management, and economics.

Personnel

CWM Software is best described as a father-son operation in that I, Carl Mize, direct the company and do all of the computer programming, and my oldest son, Jeremy Mize, handles the business end of the company.  

I was a professor in the Forestry Department at Iowa State University for 30 years.  At Iowa State I taught courses in forest measurements, forest growth and yield, and other topics, and I did research in quantitative aspects of forestry.  I started computer programming 65 years ago and have worked on various computer systems and developed a variety of computer programs.  I retired in 2007 and am living in Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico with my wife, who was a professor of forest ecology at Iowa State University and the University of Veracruz in Mexico.

Jeremy Mize is a graduate of Iowa State University and is presently a high school science teacher living near Iowa City, Iowa with his three children.