Board of Directors

Mike Bondi

Chair

Mike Bondi is one of the co-founders of Forests Forever, Inc. in 1990. At that time, Mike was Oregon State University’s Extension Forestry

Agent in Clackamas County. His memories include being with Howard Hopkins in the 1980s on the former Grouse Hollow Tree Farm (now Hopkins Demonstration Forest) for a variety of projects and activities. Besides serving on the FFI Board since its inception, Mike managed all of the education and outreach programs at Hopkins until 2004 when the first full-time Forestry Educator was hired. Mike retired from OSU in March, 2022 and is devoting more time to FFI activities. Currently, he is the Fundraising Coordinator for the Outreach Center and is updating FFI’s website and increasing media outreach.

Pamela Hayden

Secretary

Pam grew up in Marin County, California and moved to the beautiful state of Oregon because of her love of trees and the natural environment.

She studied Anthropology and Environmental Design at Cal Berkley and received a master’s degree in landscape architecture at Cal Poly Pomona, before moving here. Pam worked for Clackamas County Department of Transportation and Development in Planning and Historic Preservation for 32 years. During her last ten years with the County, she was a Senior Policy Analyst. When Pam retired, a major focus of her life became the preservation, research and restoration of the historic Molalla Log House. She joined the Board of Forests Forever, Inc. when the Board welcomed the hand-hewn log house for reconstruction at Hopkins Demonstration Forest. Her background, experience and interests fit well with the mission at Hopkins to provide education about forestry heritage resources and sustainable forest management. Pam also enjoys spending time with her husband, three kids and nine grandchildren.

Mike Piazza

Treasurer

Mike and his family relocated to Oregon in 1991 to help Bank of America establish itself in the Pacific Northwest. Recently retired, Mike has

spent 50 years in the Banking Industry working for both Bank of America and Key Bank where he served as a Retail Banking Executive managing branches in the Multnomah, Clackamas, Hood River and Marion counties. Mike and his wife, Cindy, have two grown sons and have been blessed with 5 grandchildren that take up part of his retirement calendar. Mike grew up on a ranch in Northern California so he is accustomed to working in the forest. Joining the FFI Board in 2008, Mike currently serves as our Treasurer and is a regular volunteer every Monday and our monthly Community Forest Days. Mike says that working out at Hopkins takes him back decades to when he was a young man working on his uncle’s ranch. Working in the forest is his “Happy Place”, as he has introduced many friends and associates to the wonders of Hopkins Demonstration Forest. Mike’s former Key Bank Team always wanted to know when they could go out to Hopkins Forest for a meeting or retreat, it was always a special time.

Frank Wille

Past Chair

Frank Wille retired from the paper mill of Longview Fibre Company in 2006 and returned to Clackamas County.

He became an OSU Master Gardener and joined other MGs in maintaining the native plant garden at Hopkins. Frank joined the FFI Board in 2013 and is now Chairman. He is responsible for providing overall leadership on the Board and manages their monthly Board meetings. Frank is married to Lyna Low whose parents, Joe & Zola, own Highland Farms of Oregon and were early supporters of the formation of the Hopkins Demonstration Forest. Frank is a member of Beavercreek Lions—one of our regular supporters of FFI’s Education Consortium.

Glenn Ahrens

Board Member

Glenn Ahrens is the Oregon State University Extension Forester, for Clackamas, Marion, and Hood River Counties.

He has served as the OSU representative on the FFI Board since 2012. FFI’s Demonstration Forests provide a premier venue for OSU Extension Forestry programs in Oregon. Thus, a big part of Glenn’s work involves developing and delivering programs at FFI’s Demonstration Forests in collaboration with FFI and many other partners in forestry education. Glenn has a B.S. in Forestry from Humboldt State University (1982) and an M.S. in Forest Science from Oregon State University (1990). He has over 40 years of experience in research, Extension, and private consulting. Glenn’s areas of specialty include forest ecology, silviculture, vegetation management, and hardwood management.

Linda Butts

Board Member

Linda Butts is a woodland owner, former Oregon Tree Farmer of the Year, and Western Regional U.S. Tree Farmer of the Year.

Linda was born and raised in Clackamas County living in Dickey Prairie, southeast of Molalla. Linda and her late husband, Lynn, purchased their 145-acre tree farm on McCully Mountain in eastern Linn County in 1974. During the past 50 years they planted more than 60,000 trees and have harvested more than 3 million board feet of timber—including trees they planted years ago. Linda and Lynn served as OSU Master Woodland Managers and have been active in the Clackamas County Farm Forestry Association and the Oregon Small Woodlands Association. In addition, and in recent years, Linda has been a leader in OSU’s Women Owning Woodlands organization. A former high school teacher, Linda currently serves on Forest Forever's Education Committee. Her special interest on the committee is helping shape our youth education programs at FFI. "Learning about the forest while you are actually there to see, smell, and hear what's going on is the best way to learn. I have always been impressed by the work done at FFI and am pleased to help."

Michael Daly, MD

Board Member

Dr. Michael Daly is a retired Nuclear Medicine physician practicing at Meridian Park Hospital in Tualatin for twenty-four years until 2005.

Mike and wife, Jan, lived in the Beavercreek community until 2023. Mike was a regular jogger in the Hopkins forest beginning in the 1990s. It wasn’t long before he became a regular Community Forestry Day volunteer the second Saturday of each month. Besides continuing to volunteer at these monthly work days, Mike joined the Board and took on the role as the Everett Hall Building Manager when that facility opened in 2012, Mike has coordinated all advertising and marketing, showing facilities to prospective users, scheduling rentals, plus managing upkeep, repairs and maintenance for the past ten years.

Mike Haasken

Board Member

Mike was the Oregon Department of Forestry’s representative on the Board from 2010 until his retirement from ODF in 2020.

He has remained on the Board since then, as a General Public member. Mike has been a regular volunteer at Hopkins for many years—including at the monthly Community Forestry Days, staffing the Lookout Tower, and helping the Sawmill team milling cedar boards for the new Outreach Center. Also, Mike works as a part-time “handy man” at Hopkins one day per week doing many different duties around the numerous buildings, on road and trail maintenance, plus a variety of tasks in the woods. Mike has been involved at Hopkins since 2007. Mike worked for Oregon Department of Forestry from 1994 to 2006 as a timber marketing forester in the Tillamook State Forest and, then, was the Stewardship Forester at the Molalla ODF office 2006 to 2020. Also, Mike served on ODF Incident Management Teams on numerous large fires as a Fireline Supervisor and as a Fire Behavior Analyst. During his last month of work, he was involved with the Labor Day fires in 2020. Prior to moving to Oregon, Mike was a forester with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources for 12 years.

Kevin Kaster

Tyson Losli

Board Member

Tyson Losli has worked in the forest industry for the past 30 years. He started his career after earning a B.S degree in Forest Management at

Oregon State University. He then began running the student logging crew at the OSU Research Forest in Corvallis. In 1995, Tyson began working in private industry managing some of Western Oregon’s most productive forests. For 27 years he worked for Willamette Industries and Weyerhaeuser Company and for the past 6 years as their Forest Manager for the company’s lands in Clackamas, Marion, and Hood River Counties. In 2022, Tyson left Weyerhaeuser to become the Forest Manager for Port Blakley’s 30,000 acre tree farm in Clackamas County. Tyson represents the forest industry on the FFI Board. According to Tyson, he’s always been impressed by the work the non-profit has been doing over the years. He joined the FFI board because of his love of the industry and sees the need for forestry education.

Bob Oblack

Board Member

Bob Oblack joined the Forests Forever, Inc. Board in 2025. Bob is well known in Clackamas County for his community service, involvement

in numerous organizations, and expertise in local geology and natural history. Bob was raised in the Molalla area next to the Molalla River in Dickey Prairie. As a young boy he spent many hours exploring the river, studying nature, and enjoying the outdoors. Bob has an Associate’s Degree in Electrical Engineering and spent 34 years working for Tektronix. Upon retirement in 2006, he joined the Clackamette Mineral and Rock Club and began attending geology classes at Chemeketa Community College. Bob loves teaching and is a natural educator. He can be frequently found around Clackamas County, the Portland metro area, and North Willamette Valley talking with groups about local geology, fluorescent minerals, and natural history. Bob has a special interest in Forests Forever as a relative to the Hannah and Chet Schink—donors of their property to FFI, now known as the Schink Demonstration Forest. For many years Bob lived next door to the Schink property and hopes to help develop the educational use of this forest.

Jessica Wescott

Board Member

Jessica is a Stewardship Forester for the North Cascade District- Molalla Unit. She started her career in forestry in 2018 after graduating

from Oregon State University with a B.S. in Forestry. Jessica was born and raised in Oregon, spending her childhood exploring the forests of the Cascade and Coastal Ranges. This created an appreciation for the forests in Oregon and her toward a career in forestry and natural resources. After graduating from OSU, Jessica worked as a lab technician at the university, was a Northwest Youth Corps Community Crew Leader, and a 4-H Program Outreach Assistant with OSU Extension in Marion County. In 2019, Jessica relocated to Tillamook where she worked as a Recreation Technician and Recreation Specialist for 3 seasons with the Oregon Department of Forestry. In 2021, she moved down to the West Oregon District of ODF and worked as a Reforestation Technician and Timber Layout Technician. In August 2022 she was hired as a Reforestation Specialist on the ODF’s Forest Grove District where she assisted with monitoring regeneration stands and assisting in the preparation and administration of service contracts to support the success of the reforestation unit. In May 2023, Jessica was promoted to an ODF Stewardship Forester position in the North Cascade District-Molalla Unit, based at the Molalla office, working with landowners and operators to achieve their management goals while following the Forest Practices Act and protecting resources. She looks forward to being part of the educational opportunities offered to the public through Forests Forever, Inc. and to help the community better understand natural resource management.

Vacant Position #1

Staff

Ken Everett

Executive Director

Ken Everett is one of the co-founders of Forests Forever, Inc. in 1990. Ken worked for Publishers Paper Company as a procurement forester and created their Management Assistance Program (MAP)

in the early 1980s to assist woodland owners with the management of their forest properties. Ken had the opportunity to work with Howard Hopkins over the years to manage his forestland. When Publishers was sold in 1986, Ken took the MAP program he had been managing and transitioned it into a private forestry consulting company named MAP, Inc. Ken retired from his consulting business in 2020. Ken has served as FFI Board Chairman and is currently our Executive Director. Ken has provided an incredible number of volunteer hours and services to Forests Forever over the years. Besides his leadership roles and managing the day-to-day activities of FFI, Ken has used his many connections in the forest industry and community to raise thousands of dollars in materials, services, and cash donations to support FFI and our activities. Ken regularly attends the monthly Community Forestry Days, manages all of our timber sales and log marketing, and can be found around the FFI properties doing almost everything and anything nearly every day. Ken lives with his wife Glenda in the Colton Community.

Peter Matzka

OSU Extension Program Coordinator

Peter Matzka is Oregon State University’s Extension Program Coordinator serving the educational outreach and public engagement at the Hopkins Demonstration Forest.

His position is unique at OSU and in Oregon—with joint funding for his salary coming from both the Clackamas Extension Service District and Forests Forever, Inc. This collaboration between Clackamas Extension and Forests Forever began in 2004. Besides providing salary support, FFI provides full access to their nearly 500 acres of managed forestland at Hopkins, the Schink Demonstration Forest, and Pedee Woodlands for Peter’s education programs. FFI also provides office, supplies and services, tools and equipment for Peter’s use. Peter’s primary audiences are high school Career Technical Education Programs, natural resources educators, woodland owners and the public. Science-inquiry field studies, career focused service learning, and volunteerism are the primary methods used to directly engage over 5,000 youth and 1,000 adults annually. Cruising timber, trail construction, milling lumber, planting trees, or completing water quality surveys are just a few of the activities conducted by participants at Hopkins. Peter attended Oregon State University where he obtained a B.S. in Forest Engineering, M.S. in Logging Engineering, and a Ph.D. in Harvesting with a minor in Forest Science.

Lindel Evers

FFI Forest Educator

Hired in September 2025, Lindel Evers is our new FFI Forest Educator who’s turning curiosity about the outdoors into unforgettable learning adventures!

Lindel is leading the launch of our Outdoor School Day Program, a fun, hands-on alternative to the traditional overnight Outdoor School. He’s also developing forestry and natural resource programs for homeschool students, helping connect more young explorers to Oregon’s forests, streams, and wildlife.

A proud University of Oregon graduate, Lindel brings almost two decades of leadership experience with Scouting America, Girl Scouts, and charter schools. Whether he’s identifying trees, playing STEM games, or sparking that “aha!” moment in a student, Lindel’s enthusiasm for the natural world is hard to miss.

When he’s not out teaching or exploring, you’ll find Lindel adventuring around Oregon City with his family—most likely somewhere with tall trees, fresh air, and plenty of mud.

With Lindel’s hiring, Forests Forever now has two educators leading our youth forestry and natural resource outreach programming in Clackamas County, the greater Portland metro area and northern Willamette Valley. Lindel works alongside Peter Matzka, Oregon State University’s Forestry Program Coordinator assigned to FFI and based at the Hopkins Demonstration Forest. Funding for Lindel’s position is provided by Hampton Lumber Company and the Walker Family Foundation.

Julie Handy

Administrative Assistant

Julie Handy has been Forests Forever’s Administrative Assistant since 2018. But, Julie worked for Ken Everett and his MAP, Inc. consulting company for 30 years and has been doing all of FFI’s paperwork since

our founding. Julie, and her husband Tom live in the Oregon City area—so is nearby to Hopkins and very convenient! As Forests Forever’s Administrative Assistant, Julie handles the organization’s communications (phones, emails), mailings, financial transactions, attends Board meetings to take notes, and takes care of all business and rental paperwork for our facilities, plus fills in for Mike Daly in showing Everett Hall to prospective users…and makes sure the hall is clean and ready for use.

Mike Haasken

Handy-Man (Part-Time)

Mike was the Oregon Department of Forestry’s representative on the Board from 2010 until his retirement from ODF in 2020. He has remained on the Board since then, as a General Public member. Mike

has been a regular volunteer at Hopkins for many years—including at the monthly Community Forestry Days, staffing the Lookout Tower, and helping the Sawmill team milling cedar boards for the new Outreach Center. Also, Mike works as a part-time “handy man” at Hopkins one day per week doing many different duties around the numerous buildings, on road and trail maintenance, plus a variety of tasks in the woods. Mike has been involved at Hopkins since 2007. Mike worked for Oregon Department of Forestry from 1994 to 2006 as a timber marketing forester in the Tillamook State Forest and, then, was the Stewardship Forester at the Molalla ODF office 2006 to 2020. Also, Mike served on ODF Incident Management Teams on numerous large fires as a Fireline Supervisor and as a Fire Behavior Analyst. During his last month of work, he was involved with the Labor Day fires in 2020. Prior to moving to Oregon, Mike was a forester with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources for 12 years.

Don Chase

Handy-Man (Part-Time)

Don Chase has been a part-time handy-man around Hopkins for many years. Don lives in Estacada and worked for 36 years with the U.S. Forest Service throughout the

Mt. Hood National Forest, before retiring in 2002. Don’s work began in the USFS roads and construction division with his favorite activities operating road graders and bulldozers. His career progressed all the way to serving as the manager for their technical coordination unit. Don brings his great skills with equipment to Forests Forever, operating and maintaining our larger rolling stock, like our tractor and wood chipper - plus anything else with wheels, tires, or tracks!

Jim & Lisa Wentworth-Plato

Caretakers/Forest Hosts

Jim and Lisa Wentworth-Plato joined Forests Forever as our new Caretakers and Forest Hosts at the Hopkins Demonstration Forest in May, 2024.

They live in the private Caretaker residence portion of the Belton Outreach Center. And, since their arrival, Jim and Lisa have taken on their responsibilities with great care, attention to detail, and with thoughtful suggestions how we can provide an even better environment for our visitors.

Both Jim and Lisa have been around the woods and camp-type facilities for much of their working lives. Jim is a forestry graduate from the University of Vermont who has a wide range of technical experience from forest inventory, research plot monitoring and animal trapping to brush/weed control and working with equipment.
Jim says, “For the past 25 years my career has focused on individual tree management working in the urban forest running my tree care business and teaching. It’s fun to get back out into the woods managing groups of trees.” For the past six years, Jim has been a Horticulture Instructor at the Clackamas Community College and leads their Arboriculture two-year degree program.
Lisa has spent much of her early career involved in environmental education, outdoor schools, and camp management. Before the pandemic she was working for the Tualatin Hills Recreation District in their aquatics program. When the pools closed, she transitioned into the special events department and decided to stay there!
Lisa said, “Jim and I met at an outdoor school camp when we worked for the Multnomah Education Service District doing environmental education with sixth graders—so this is a little like coming back home to our early days.”