EXPERIENCE

• Experience alongside father as a child with machinery, chainsaws, tree trim-ming, tree removal, farming and planting trees.
• Have worked professionally since age of 16 (or 29 years 1979—present)
• Graduated from Waupun High School 1981
• Active in FFA
• Attended Appleton Technical College studied Natural Resources and Forestry
• Member of Wisconsin Arborist Association
• Member of ISA
• Certified arborist for 6 years
• 1982, 1983 (winter months) planted trees for Superior Forestry Services in six states.
• Since 1982 have planted a variety of over 100,000 trees at my home farm.
• Have attended numerous educational meetings and seminars, read books, and designed educational booths for Stevens Point Foresty College, WAA and ISA.
• Have raised organic (grass fed) beef cattle, cows and steers since childhood. I have been on my own since age 18 (1981).

HOBBIES
Canoeing, Fishing, Camping, Studying Trees, Nature, Research, Burning wood fires to heat my home,
Tree work