I just started to work on updating my website and blog, and realized that this “about” section is ancient history… So, here I am, offering an update.<\/p>\n
Red Alder Ranch is me, Mark Whitaker. I live on 15 acres of mixed forest land near the historic native village of Skamokawa, Washington, alongside the Columbia River. The Pacific Ocean is 34 miles away by river. <\/p>\n
I also co-own, with my brother, a 40 acre parcel of fir and larch forest in the Okanogan Highlands, near Wauconda Pass. I spend a few weeks a year up there, spring through fall, working on some forest thinning, repairing the existing cabin and shed, and then deer and grouse hunting in the fall. <\/p>\n
I have been, at turns, a conservation corps grunt, an Eagle scout, a dishwasher and prep cook, a bass player in a punk band, a mechanic and auto parts guy, a commercial dishwasher repairman, an antique\/reproduction light fixture salesman and designer, a college student, a solar pool heater installer, sawmill headrig operator and lumber grader, tax preparer, all around handyman, firewood cutter, sheep rancher, eBay seller and kayak instructor\/guide and rental shop manager. I still do a little bit of custom sawmilling from time to time. <\/p>\n
My current full time occupation is teaching Wilderness First Responder courses for Wilderness Medical Associates, Intl<\/a>, and also teaching WMA courses in the Pacific Northwest under my own company, Cascadia Wilderness Medicine<\/a>. I travel all over the US for this, and once a year to Greenland.<\/p>\n I like woodworking and blacksmithing, but haven’t done a whole lot of either one. I have a very charismatic Brittany spaniel, and some elderly black cats. I like maps and charts. I hunt and fish whenever I can. I like to cook. I walk in the woods almost every day. <\/p>\n Thanks for visiting! I just started to work on updating my website and blog, and realized that this “about” section is ancient history… So, here I am, offering an update. Red Alder Ranch is me, Mark Whitaker. I live on 15 acres of mixed forest land near the historic native village of Skamokawa, Washington, alongside the Columbia River. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.redalderranch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.redalderranch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.redalderranch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.redalderranch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.redalderranch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/blog.redalderranch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301,"href":"http:\/\/blog.redalderranch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.redalderranch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nMark Whitaker
\nMarch 25, 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"