QWR NEWS RELEASE
Email: damador@quietwarriorracing.com
Date: March 3, 2025
*Tribute is posted in response to the recent USDA News Release
and announcement about Forest Service Chief Randy Moore retiring from the
agency.
OHV PARTNER TRIBUTE TO FS CHIEF RANDY MOORE
I had the privilege to meet Randy Moore shortly after his
appointment in 2007 to serve as the Pacific Southwest Regional Forester. After shaking his hand and looking him in
the eye, I knew he possessed the character, commitment, and leadership skills
needed to guide the agency through the difficult challenges it faced.
That first meeting in 2008 at the Region 5 HQ in Vallejo,
CA was with a core team of OHV leadership and our partners at the CA State Park
Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Division. The discussions were centered on our shared
commitment to ecologically-balanced motorized recreation on Forest Service
System lands.
After the initial welcomes, Randy opened the meeting by
sharing his background and his willingness to meet with OHV and other key
stakeholders but that attendees should be aware of what I called Randy’s Rule”
and that was, “If you come to my office with a problem, you also need to come
with a solution.”
During the course of his tenure as the Regional Forester
(2007-2021), the “Trail Community” deeply valued their relationship with Randy
and his management team. And, that his
door was always open to the recreation community providing your meeting focused
on solution-based discussions.
I also appreciated his shared passion for field trips on
an ATV or Dirt-Bike where Randy could review some of the important recreation
and trail management challenges facing the agency along with solutions being
implemented to address those concerns.
Randy should be commended for the collaborative manner that
his office and staff conducted themselves during the 2018-2020 intense wildfire
seasons to build agency and partnership capacity to address post wildfire
recovery efforts of both motorized and non-motorized recreation facilities and
areas damaged by wildfires.
I believe that Randy had the right stuff or blend of
field level experience, character, administrative and political acumen, and
people skills to succeed both as the R5 Regional Forester and Chief of the
Forest Service.
I want to thank him for his 45-year career with the Forest Service and his strong commitment to working with agency partners in support of managed recreation and resource management of public lands. He certainly upheld the Forest Service motto of: “Caring for the Land and Serving People”. I wish him all the best in the next chapter of his life.
USDA NEWS RELEASE ON MOORE RETIREMENT
https://www.fs.usda.gov/inside-fs/leadership/note-reflection
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Don Amador has been in the trail advocacy and recreation
management profession for over 34 years.
Don is President of Quiet Warrior Racing LLC. Don serves as the Western
States Representative for the Motorcycle Industry Council. Don is Past
President/CEO and current board member of the Post Wildfire OHV Recovery
Alliance. Don served as a contractor to the BlueRibbon Coalition from 1996
until June, 2018. Don served on the California Off-Highway Motor Vehicle
Recreation Commission from 1994-2000. He has won numerous awards including
being a 2016 Inductee into the Off-Road Motorsports Hall of Fame and the 2018
Friend of the AMA Award. Don served as the government affairs lead for AMA District
36 in Northern California from 2019 – 2023. Don is a Co-Founder and current
Core-Team member on FireScape Mendocino.
Don served as an AD Driver for the FS North Zone Fire Cache during the
2022, 2023, and 2024 wildfire seasons. Don is a contributor to Dealernews
Magazine. Don writes from his home in Cottonwood, CA.
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