My name's Mark Troxel, and I'm from Parkdale, OR, which is just south of Hood River. I grew up surrounded by pear orchards and hay fields, so my initial experience with soil was mostly working and fertilizing fields and irrigation repair and maintenance. I'm a junior in the NR program at Cascades, and after having spent my freshman year in Corvallis I feel like this is definitely the place to get your degree. I'm taking this class firstly because Cascades NR majors got hosed this term and we don't have much choice, but I'm pumped to learn more about what soils actually do, as opposed to just learning what they are in the basic soils class. I've spent the last six years working for the Oregon Dept. of Forestry in the summertime and one thing I've noticed is that areas that have burned in wildfires in previous years (Providing they didn't completely torch off) are by far the healthiest part of our forests and rangelands. I'm sure there's some soil processes at work there, and I'd like to learn a LOT more about them.
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