Wow, this is pretty interesting. I think if everyone relocated to the same location it would quite a community and the jails would be pretty much empty. I'm not sure exactly what I do, but it keeps me very busy.

Actually work for Montana State University as an Extension agent, huh? We are the educational outreach of the land grant Universities. There's at least one of me in every county across the states. Kind of an under the radar secret organization. Practically I spend about 1/2 my time facilitating the local and regional 4-H youth program of 200 kids and 100 leaders. I also work a lot with invasive plant species, supporting county and landowner management programs, also answer lots of questions from what kind of spider is that in the bathroom sink to why is my lilac dying? I can give a ten minute answer to a a homeowner question and not say anything definitive, but they generally leave happy. I get to work with among the last of the great American heroes, the cattle ranchers. Anymore I am working a great deal in community development, chairing a local board that oversees community improvement block grant programs and business development. I like it because it's a government job that doesn't really have a direct supervisor & is totally non-regulatory. We're purely a information source & here to serve the community. On the other hand, I work for nearly everyone I know in some respects. Beyond the normal M-F 8-5, I attend lots of night meetings and weekend programs. Having said that I get to be involved in almost anything I want to. I've been at this for 17 years now.

Prior to this I worked 6 years as a backcountry law enforcement ranger for the park service in Canyonlands NP and elsewhere and a few years cowboying on a ranch in Utah, before going back to graduate school at Utah State Univ.

At times I've been a borderline hippy and other times a borderline redneck. I get to ride the bike a lot for work in my old cowboy chaps and red, white and blue helmet

I wish I knew how to do the stuff other people on this board have knowledge in.

JH

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