Don wants the Plumas Fire Safe Council to continue to bring wildfire awareness by striving to expand fire-adapted homes and communities within Plumas County. A forester for fifty years, and still licensed to practice in California, as well as an arborist for twenty years, Don's current focus is on fireproofing his land. With government help, his efforts are on protecting an area north of Quincy. He often has a chainsaw in hand so as to thin the forest while practicing shinrin-yoku at advanced levels. Don brings experience as an entrepreneur in forest thinning and defensible space, as well as from 20 years as Faculty of Forestry at UC Berkeley, 8 years as PG&E's chief forester for the vegetation management department, and 30 years, and continuing, in bonsai creation.