"Forests and Fire
and Environmentalists! Oh my!"with
Siskiyou County Supervisor Ray Haupt
HOUR 1
About our guest
HOUR 2
Education
BS Natural Resources
Management, Forestry
concentration, Cal
Poly San Louis
Obispo, CA 1978
Forest Engineering
Institute, Advanced
Forest
Engineering/Economics,
HumboldtState
University,
Certification 1980
Plethora of Agency,
University and local
workshops spanning
40 years.
Professional Career
33 years of
experience USFS,
1976-2010
Work includes
assignments on the
National Forests of
Washington,
California and
Florida.
Working Forester for
22 years holding
certifications for
Contracting
Officer’s
Representative, Sale
Administrator,
Forest Service
Representative and
Contracting Officer.
R-5 certified
Logging Engineering
and Transportation
Planner.
Working Fuels
manager throughout
career holding
certifications for
preparation and
approval of moderate
complexity fuels
prescriptions. Type
2 burn boss
qualified.
Extensive
participation in
Fire Operations for
33 years. Logistics
Chief and Division
Supervisor Type 2
Qualified. Served on
a Type 2 team for 7
years and
participated in many
large fire
responses. ICT 3
qualified.
Northern California
District Ranger
Representative on
R-5 Line Officer
Team for 5 years.
Certified for
highest level,
Expert Complexity of
fire management and
Type 1 Teams.
Certified Line
Officer for Fire
Response
/Trainer/Mentor/Certifying
Officer.
USFS Line Officer
for 14 years serving
in Regions 8 and 5.
Retired as District
Ranger, Klamath NF
2010.
Notable work USFS
related Recognitions
Acknowledged through
agency awards 20+
times for leadership
and management of
resource programs
and personnel.
Selected to lead a
WO pilot program
combining Logging
Engineering and
Transportation
Planning on the
Plumas NF, 1985-92.
Received an R-5
award for cost
option economic
analysis computer
planning 1986 and
wrote the R-5
handbook on such.
Received the Chief’s
Ecosystem Management
Award Florida NF’s
for ESA listed
species recovery
using intensive
Forest and Fuels
Management and local
economic recovery.
Served on the
development team who
established the R-8
Prescribed Fire
Management Academy
1993-94.
Managed and
participated in
1,000,000+ acres of
prescribed fire
including 4 of the 6
Wilderness
Prescribed Fires
nationally.
Wrote R-5 policies
for Managed Natural
Fire, Appropriate
Management Response
and Wilderness
Delegations for use
of mechanized
equipment in
non-emergency
situations.
Lead the team who
developed and wrote
the R-5 policy known
as Project Activity
Level (PAL), the
replacement of the
Sale Activity Level
(SAL) system for
fire risk management
in industrial forest
operations, 2002.
R-5 Regional
Forrester
Investigative Team
Leader for the
Angora Fire, Tahoe
NF.
Selected for the R-5
Ecosystem Management
Award in 2009 and
nominated for the
Chiefs Award. Eddy
Project EIS (33,000
acres), applications
of fire behavior
science and
vegetation
management design
for protection of
Late Successional
Reserve landscapes
in Fire Dominated
Ecosystems of the
Northwest Forest
Plan Northern
Spotted Owl
Habitats.
Numerous Awards and
a national leader in
Fire behavior, large
Fire Management and
Fire behavior
modification using
Forest Management
vegetation
manipulation
techniques.
2 US Congressional
Awards for Forest
Management,
significantly
contributing to
Rural
EconomicStability
(Quincy CA,
Blountstown FL and
Life time
achievement).
Post USFS Retirement
Instructor of Forest
Hydrology, Forest
Mensuration,
Dendrology and
Forest Ecology at
College of the
Siskiyous, Weed CA.
Forest Consultant,
California
Registered
Professional
Forester #2938.
The Research Lead
Coordinator
involving UC
Berkley, UC Merced
UC Santa Barbara,
USFS and Siskiyou
County for
Evapotranspiration
Water Yield and
Hydrologic Function
study in Fire
Adapted Forested
Ecosystems.
Serving as Science
Chair on the Board
of Directors for the
Wildfire Institute,
Ft. Jones CA.
Coauthor of many
Forestry related
federal legislative
bills for public
lands management.
Current Elected Official
Siskiyou County
Supervisor, District
5
Committee
Assignments
County Chair , SFAC
(Sustainable Forest
Action Committee)
Designee, In Home
Supportive Services
Public Authority
Alternate Rep., NACO/Sierra-Sacramento
LEMSA
Delegate, Five
County Coho Plan
Delegate, Siskiyou
County Resource
Advisory Council
Alternate, Siskiyou
County Regional
Solid Waste Joint
Powers Authority
Co-delegate,
Behavioral Health
Services Advisory
Board
Alternate, North
Coast Integrated
Regional Water
Management Plan,
Policy Board
Alternate, North
Coast Integrated
Water Management
Plan, Policy Review
Committee
Designee, Criminal
Justice Department
Head Committee
County
Representative, Fire
Chief’s Steering
Committee
Director,
Siskiyou County
Flood Control and
Water Conservation
District, Siskiyou
County Air Pollution
Control District,
Siskiyou Power
Authority, Airport
Land Use Commission,
County Service Area
3, County Service
Area 4, County
Service Area 5