Lois Foster:  

After high school I attended Humboldt State University for 4 years and competed on the college archery team. However, I dropped out of HSU about 6 classes short of earning a B.S. After that I moved to Colorado for 4 years. I spent my time in Colorado working for the BLM and bow hunting, fishing, camping, skiing, riding horses, and attending archery competitions. I got a bighorn sheep with my bow in 1983, which was a big deal at the time (or at least I thought so ;-)). In 1983 I moved to Oklahoma, and finished a B.S. degree at Oklahoma Panhandle State University (fondly remembered as good old Pee Yew) in 1985. The university owned about 1000 acres of farm ground and I worked for them on the farm crew for a year and a half, learning how to operate tractors, grain trucks, and diesel irrigation engines. Now, THAT was an education...! After graduating from PSU I taught high school sciences in nearby Texhoma, Oklahoma for the next two years. Having had enough of the high plains (too flat, too dry, no trees, no public lands, too much bible belt for my taste), I moved to Kamiah, Idaho in 1987 to take a seasonal job with the Forest Service. I got a permanent job with the Forest Service as a Fisheries Bio...Expand for more