Joe Stutler
Bend, Oregon
jstutler5@gmail.com
Joe Stutler spent thirty five years with the US Forest Service. Since leaving federal service, he worked for Northtree Fire International, a private wildland fire company and served as County Forester for Deschutes County for eight years. He has held positions of hotshot, smokejumper, district and forest fire management officer, district ranger, law enforcement officer and regional fire operations specialist for both California and the Pacific Northwest Forest Service regions. Joe has served ten years as a single resource, thirty three years as Type I and II Incident Commander and command and general staff and six years as a member of National Area Command Teams. In addition to wildland fire assignments, he has managed all-hazard assignments such as the World Trade Center, numerous earthquakes and floods, hurricanes, the Olympic games, and many law enforcement activities such as Rainbow Family gathering, The Campaign Against Marijuana Planting (CAMP) and Hell's Angels gatherings. He currently fills Command and General positions on Type 1 IMTs and Area Command teams.
Joe has thirty years instructor for NWCG, and NFA courses outlined as: Advanced Incident Management and Area Command; Command and General staff; Advanced Fire Management, Advanced Incident Leadership for Agency Administrators, C&G for Local IMT's ; Instructor and Course Coordinator for Multi Agency Coordination Groups. Instructor for I-100 through I-400, L-280-380, ICS for Executives and ICS position courses in Command, Operations, Planning and Logistics, exercise design and facilitation. Member of the National Smokejumper Association, member and past Board of Director, International Association of Fire Chiefs, member and Board of Director for Wildland Fire Policy Committee, AHIMT Association, National Wildfire Suppression Association and the National Emergency Management Association.
Honors and Awards
- USDA Meritorious Award for Response to the 911 Terrorist Attacks
- USFS11 Merit Service Awards
Special Assignments
- Numerous task assignments for working teams of National Wildfire Coordination Group
- Member and Chair of the PNW Operations Working Team, and the Geographic Board for the National IMT for the PNW
- Past Chairperson and current member of the National Type 1 Incident Commander/Area Commander Council
- Board member of the IAFC Wildland Fire Policy Committee
- Chair of the Western Region Steering Committee for the National Wildland Fire Cohesive Strategy
- Member of the Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy and Program Reviews
- Chair of Project Wildfire in Deschutes County and vice-Chair of the Central Oregon Fire Chief's Association
- Member of the National Incident Management Organizational Study
Joe has an associate degree in Forestry and degree in Forestry Natural Resource Management from Cal Poly, graduated from the Federal Law Enforcement Academy and completed Advanced Facilitation, Team Building, Common Ground, Conflict Resolution courses from Interaction Associates in San Francisco, CA.
