I’m standing along the wall at the Walterville Grange, looking out over 40-some people gathered for a Lane Families for Farms & Forests tour up the McKenzie, focused on working forestry and ag lands and their relationship to watershed health.
I hear my name and refocus to introduce the group to Lane County Small Woodland Association, the tour’s co-sponsor.
This is not the retirement I’d imagined.
I’m walking backward down a gravel road, leading part…
