Fifty years ago this week, I was hired by the U.S. Forest Service on the Prairie City Ranger District of the Malheur National Forest, initiating a decade-long career to finance my college education at the University of Oregon School of Journalism. The schedule worked extremely well: two quarters in school and two quarters in the backcountry of the beautiful Northwest.
For the next decade, I worked as a trail dog, wilderness ranger, firefighter, lookout, helitack crew member, tree planter and timber marker for the Malheur National Forest in Oregon and the Wenatchee National Forest in Washington while studying journalism and public relations. For me, it was an ideal way to fund my collegiate endeavors wile exploring the wilds.
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