Mike Edrington
OQA President
Gresham, Oregon
msedrington@aol.com

Mike Edrington retired from the US Forest Service after 38 years. He held a  variety of positions as agency administrator and fire management  officer. His last assignment was as the Regional Fire and Aviation  Director for the combined Pacific Northwest Regional and State offices  of BLM and Forest Service. Ten years as a single resource leader; twelve  years as a Type 1 and 2 Incident Commander, command and general staff;  twenty-nine years as a member of a National Area Command Team; sixteen  years as a National Area Commander and 26 years as a MAC Group Coordinator. Currently a member of National Area Command Team 3.

He  has extensive experience in the development and instruction of national  incident management, coordination, leadership and inter agency courses  for emergency services agencies and exercise design and facilitation.  Forty years as lead instructor for NWCG, EMI, and NFA courses including  Advanced Incident Management and Area Command; Command and General  Staff; the AHIMT course; Advanced Incident Management for Agency  Administrators; Instructor and Course Coordinator for Multi Agency  Coordination Groups; I-100 through I-400; Incident Leadership; ICS  position courses in Command, Planning, Operations and Logistics. His interests are organizational and employee development, effectiveness and  team dynamics, leadership, innovative thinking, and decision making  under stress.

Honors and Awards

• USFS National Fire Achievement Award
• State of Israel High Achievement Award
• Colorado State University Honor Alumnus Award
• Twenty-one USFS Merit Service Awards

Special Assignments

1. Past chairperson of the National Wildfire Coordination Group Training Working Team
2. Past chairman and current member of the Nation Area Commander/Incident Commander Council
3. Member of the Federal National Wildland Fire Management Policy Committee
4. Assignments in Spain and Isreal representing the wild land fire agencies
5. Steering Committee member for national courses Advanced Incident Management and Area Command
6. Member of the National Incident Management Organization
7. Board of Directors, National Wildfire Suppression Association
8. Member of the AHIMT and National Emergency Management Associations

Graduate  from Colorado State University with a major in Forest Recreation and the Colorado Law Enforcement Academy. Graduate work from Utah State  University.