Fishing, hunting, morel hunting and hiking.
I love experimenting with wild and domestic edible mushrooms, trying to clone some now. I am a webmaster for several websites as well as a soon to be web forum moderator for the nations foremost mushroom expert Chris Matherly.
I started out as a volunteer firefighter, just out of high school and served 20 years for both the Coalfield and Petros communities combined. During that time mont of my regular employment was either construction or equipment operation. In the last five years I had the opportunity to become a wildland firefighter. I feel that my 20 years as a structural fireman gives me an advantage in the wildfire field where urban interface is a big factor.
TRAINING / CERTIFICATIONS
Structural fire I&II
Structural Fire live Burn
Structural collapse rescue
Confined space rescue
Vehicular Extrication
Engine Operations
Wildland Firefighter type 1 and 2
Intermediate wildfire behavior S-290
Engine Boss
Class C faller
Portable pump operations
Incident command 100,200,300,700 and 800
ICS 775 EOC operations
Incident commander type 4
