Family and fall in the South Fork of Ross Creek

We moved West in the early 1970s because we found it quiet and beautiful, and much less busy than Minneapolis. After some substitute teaching and a summer on the Forest Service trail crew, I was hired as a member of the planning team on the Kootenai National Forest. They were a great bunch, and they recognized that I had no forestry or engineering skills, so I became the team’s ‘environmentalist.’