About the Author

David E. Michael is the trails program manager for the Tahoe National Forest. He also serves as the crosscut saw coordinator for the Pacific Southwest Region of the USDA Forest Service and helped develop the Chain Saw and Crosscut Saw Training Course coordinated by MTDC. Michael has more than 35 years of experience in the woods, working for the Forest Service on the Tahoe, Apache–Sitgreaves, Coconino, Mt. Baker–Snoqualmie, Shasta–Trinity, Tongass, and Klamath National Forests in engineering, recreation, and wilderness management. He also worked in private industry as a timber consultant, cruiser, cadastral surveyor, vocational instructor, and logger.

David Michael

 

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