I had the great fortune of growing up in Canyonville in the 1960s and 1970s. Since graduating from South Umpqua High School I've devoted my life to education, teaching in the Peace Corps after getting my undergraduate degree, returning to study for nine additional years, then serving as a university professor for 13. Recently I had the equally good fortune of relocating to Oregon to serve at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, motivated in part by my desire to be closer to Alder Creek Children's Forest, the nonprofit I and others from Douglas County founded in 2002 in memory …