Mike Mumford
I grew up in Southwestern Michigan on a 60+ acre farm that had a small commercial asparagus operation and for a few years a 60 head pig business; typically 2-3 Holstein steers were raised annually for meat. I earned spending money working for neighboring farms baling hay and picking grapes/raspberries. In 1977 I graduated from Michigan Technological University with a Bachelor of Science degree in forestry. In 2011 I retired from the U.S. Forest Service after working over 30 years as a small sales/salvage sales forester, a presale forester/logging systems specialist as well as various positions within the Fire and Aviation Management division ending my career doing resource protection work. When working on the Fremont National Forest I gained experience with large scale beef cattle operations. In October 2015 I joined the Pend Oreille Conservation District’s Board of Supervisors, and in June of 2019 joined the Washington Association of Conservation Districts as an Area Director; currently I serve as the Association’s President and sit on the board of the Washington State Conservation Commission. My interests are small farm operations (including farmer’s markets), small woodlot management, wildfire prevention/protection especially in the wildland urban interface and wildfire smoke intrusion into populated areas.
![A person in winter gear touching a tree in a snowy forest.](https://streamline.imgix.net/3ee4fd08-5616-44cc-aa66-514b4691ab47/8a8bd9b0-f7a8-462f-9541-dbeff2ab1f4e/image.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&w=2000&h=2000&fit=max&or=0&s=84b813f1f19c967849236fdcd50503d8)
![A man with glasses, a cap, and a beard, wearing an orange vest with arrows, in a snowy forest backdrop.](https://streamline.imgix.net/3ee4fd08-5616-44cc-aa66-514b4691ab47/fc809cbb-7d4f-4c07-b900-5e28ea7c5435/image.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&w=2000&h=2000&fit=max&or=0&s=a812680b3158531a8f8df087f23cc74c)