Roque is an enrolled member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. The Tribal headquarters are located in Okmulgee, Oklahoma.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

1992 to present
Owner, Eagle Ridge Forest Management

1981 to 1992
Supervisory Forester
Colville Tribal Forestry

·Responsible for all Tribal forestry operations on the 300,000 acre Inchelium District.
·Annually planned, supervised, and evaluated up to 1600 acres of reforestation; 700 acres of
precommercial thinning; 800 acres herbicide application.
·Planned and conducted prescribed burning and pest surveys.
·Established and monitored silvicultural and pest management research plots.
·Wrote silvicultural prescriptions for stands within timber sale areas of up to 4000 acres.
·Supervised identification and selection of superior trees for cone collection.
·Crew boss wildfire suppression.


EDUCATION:

1981
MS Forest Resources
University of Idaho

1977
BS Forest Management
Oklahoma State University


ACTIVITIES:

·Member Society of American Foresters since 1979
·2001 Chair, Inland Empire SAF
·Board Member Spokane Chapter Washington Farm Forestry Association
·Member Natural Resources Program Advisory Committee, Spokane Community College
·Board Member Inland Empire Natural Resources Youth Camp


RECENT PROJECTS AWARDED TO EAGLE RIDGE:

2004
Permanent Plot Inventory
Colville Indian Reservation
Remeasurment of 418 permanent forest inventory plots (CFI plots)

2004
Forest Inventory
Administered by Colville Indian Agency
Public Domain (Off-Reservation) Trust Land

2003
Stranger Creek Unit, Colville Indian Reservation
Timber Stand Silvicultural Inventory

1999
Simpson Lake Unit, Colville Indian Reservation
Timber Stand Silvicultural Inventory

Eagle Ridge has well established individual and corporate business partnerships to help accomplish large scale forest inventory projects. We take pride in our high quality of field data collection.


TIMBER HARVESTS:

Eagle Ridge has managed numerous timber harvests for clients with ownerships from 10 acres
to hundreds of acres, and with harvest volumes from 50,000 to over 1 million bd ft. We are proud
of our commitment to minimum impact and disturbance of a site during harvest, and our use of selective harvesting to produce a healthy and sustainable forest for future generations.


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