to the VanNatta Home Page. I have followed a multi-Disciplinary
career since my graduation from Willamette University
of Salem , Oregon more
than a few years ago. For 34 years last past, I have been a practicing
attorney in the firm of VanNatta and Petersen of St. Helens, Oregon which
should not be confused with its namesake Mt. St. Helens which is under constant watch by the Cascades Volcano Observatory. I live
near Apiary
which is south of
Rainier , Oregon. If you are a history buff you may be interested in the
the history of Rainier
or you can read about the 25 West Oregon
communities whose history is documented on this site. Some of my youth was spent at the Rainier United Methodist Church.
In yet another side of my career, I am part owner of a family forestry and logging company, VanNatta Brothers, which has been logging with a conscience for 30 years on the same piece of property in Apiary, Oregon, which explains
why there is VanNatta Foresty and Logging Page
. Farmers and Loggers and rural folks generally tend of have machinery of various types and the VanNatta Family is no exception. If you poke around here a bit you will find all sorts of things. 
My family has been farming and logging in Columbia County for over a century so I know some
Logging History
I also know something about
Log Skidders
Loggers often
have Cummins Engines in their
equipment and frequently watch what the major timber and paper producers
such as Boise Cascade are doing.
I can definitively say that the AOL which VanNatta Brothers belongs
is the Associated Oregon Loggers, not
American OnLine , a late comer. Perhaps
because my grandfather hiked into the Klondike in the '98 goldrush, I've
always had a special spot for Alaska.
You can get there via the Alaska Marine Highway.
. After all, Alaskan Communities such as
Juneau, Unalaska or Emmonak
can be quite a ways from each other. After spending 5 years in the Yukon and Fairbanks mining districts, my grandfather came to St Helens and established a dairy farm. I know only enough about the dairy business to know that I don't want to be in it, but I can recognize a good Real Dairyfarmer Homepage when I see one. While you are traveling, you should stop over in Kentucky and visit Duane Bristow's Old Kentucky page as it has a little of something for everyone in it, unless you are looking for Willapa Bay.
I love bridges, too, and the Bridges of Portland are special, but if you prefer college homepages there is a page for that too at nearby Reed College.
For some flyfishing and photos of Oregon outdoors, the McKenzie River Page is outstanding.
Beyond the practice of law, I am the founding Editor of VanNatta's Worker's Compensation Reporter which is the only service in Oregon which reports Worker's Compensation administrative decisions. It was named by me in a moment of arrogance, and it still carries the VanNatta's moniker, though I have ceased to be involved with it since about volume 20.
Inasmuch as my collateral family is pretty small, I claim cousins removed so many times that I am not even sure how many times they are removed including Mark Forbes even though he is not nearly rich enough to be the Forbes dude who is running for President. If I got the relationship right, his mother is a second cousin. A review of the photo on his home page, and a comparison of it to my desk, does prove one thing however. We are both afflicted with a heriditary, and therefore presumably untreatable 'desk mess syndrome.' If I can find the papers, I expect to file for an accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act for "free desk sideboards".
Then there is the family: my lovely wife Lois and my daughters, Lisa, Jennette, Lucinda , and Sara. This isn't all. There are more Forestry/logging links behind the VanNatta Forestry and Logging Page.
VanNatta Forestry Link Page |
The VanNatta Homepage |
VanNatta Computer History |
Mt. St. Helens Volcano |
25 West Oregon Communities |
