Rich Fairbanks
Office: 541-899-9558 Email
Prior to joining The Wilderness Society, Rich Fairbanks worked thirty two years for the USDA Forest Service. He spent twelve years working on suppression crews and hotshot crews and eight years as a division supervisor, felling boss and other overhead jobs on fires throughout the West.
Rich has worked as team leader for National Forest Fire Management Plans, has done burn severity analysis for post-fire planning and served as ID Team leader for the infamous Biscuit Fire Recovery Project.
Rich has done graduate work in fire ecology and fire behavior, and he has a degree in forestry and a master's degree in planning.
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