Lucas Mayfield Part 2 - "The Backbone Series and 1039 Scholarship"

Lucas Mayfield is on the show today to talk about some of the lessons learned in his fire career, the Mystery Ranch "Backbone Series", the Mystery Ranch "1039 Scholarship" program, and how the status quo of the agencies do not have to remain as the status quo...

Show Notes

Today on the show: Luke and I sit down at Mystery Ranch in Bozeman, MT to talk about some of the lessons learned with his wildland fire career, and how things don't have to remain as the "status quo" that we see now...

We also go into detail about the Backbone Series and the 1039 Scholarship opportunities with Mystery Ranch!

Luke spent 18 years fighting fire with various crews and finished his fire career as the Assistant Superintendent of Rogue River Hotshots. After that, he went on to become the Fire Program Manager of Mystery Ranch...

Here is a little about Lucas:

"I grew up in Moscow, Idaho and went to The University of Montana. I started working in the woods at 17 years old for a conservation corps based out of Oregon. I started working for the United States Forest Service in 2001 on a packing crew (horses, mules, axes and crosscuts). I worked in 4 regions and on 7 different forests and spent 18 seasons with the Forest Service. My last 12 seasons were spent on Interagency Hotshot Crews and I resigned as a Supervisory Forestry Technician."

He had plenty of good reason to get out of fire... Namely, preserving his own mental and physical health, which we go into great detail with in the episode. Now that he is the Fire Program Manager over at Mystery Ranch, things are quite different...

Be sure to check out Mystery Ranch for any information regarding the Backbone Series, and the 1039 Scholarship program, which will be announced this week!

For more information, check out:
https://www.mysteryranch.com

To find Lucas (Who is kind of a ghost on social media) check out his IG and Facebook here:

Facebook = https://www.facebook.com/lucas.mayfield.75
Instagram = https://www.instagram.com/lucas.mayfield.75/

*Please excuse the noise of the trains in the episode

You know the drill...

Have fun, stay safe, and stay savage!

Enjoy...


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