ABOUT
Images of wildfire in American media today focus almost exclusively on tragedy, burning structures and devastated towns. Spotfire Images depict wildland firefighters in their element - wilderness - and protecting structures in the expanding wildland urban interface across the United States.
I worked four wildfire seasons from 1988 to 1990, and 1992 with USFS Santa Lucia Crew 3, based in San Luis Obispo, California. I worked three wildfire seasons from 1993 to 1995
as a Los Padres Hotshot based in Santa Barbara. I worked 17 wildfire seasons from 1996 to 2012 as an Alaska Smokejumper based in Fairbanks. Today I lead wildland firefighting resources as task force leader and as a public information officer.
Education: San Mateo High School, CA 1985. Cal Poly San Luis Obispo CA: B.S. News Journalism, 1991. Boise State Univeristy, ID: Masters Certificate, Technical Communiucations, 2018.
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