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Gabriela Ritokova works to improve forest health
Tracy Loew
Salem Statesman Journal
USA TODAY NETWORK
This is part of a weekly series introduc-
ing readers to individuals who are pas-
sionate about our Mid-Valley communi-
ty.
When Oregon’s forest trees get sick or
die, it’s Gabriela Ritokova’s job to figure
out why.
Ritokova is the state’s new forest pa-
thologist. Her mission is to help the Ore-
gon Department of Forestry and private
timber owners fight diseases.
It’s a big job, and one that’s getting big-
ger.
Climate change is accelerating the de-
cline of trees in Oregon, Ritokova said.
On the Oregon coast, Swiss needle
cast is attacking Douglas fir. Southern
Oregon is dealing with sudden oak death.
There is mistletoe on pines in Eastern
Oregon.
Those diseases stunt or kill thousands
of trees each year, costing local econo-
mies millions of dollars.
“Especially with the droughts we have
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had my six children and I was just being the
mom involved in everything and once they
were all in school, I just started with differ-
ent things here and there and just staying
busy. And now they’re all grown and gone,
and it’s time.”
The family moved to Mulino and Dave
Roses started a trucking company.
She taught piano while raising her chil-
dren. In her youngest son Marshall’s fresh-
man year at Molalla High School, he and
nine friends wanted to play tennis, but the
school hadn’t fielded a team for years.
Molalla agreed to fund a team, but didn’t
have the money for a coach. Laurel played
tennis throughout high school at Barlow,
taught some young players from her church
and played in tournaments at clubs around
the state.
She took the job – 19 years later, she’s
still coaching the boys.
“He quit playing tennis, but a bunch of
been experiencing, we’ve seen a lot of de-
cline and sometimes even mortality,” she
said.
Ritokova is a detective of sorts, but fo-
cused on microscopic pathogens.
“One of the things that people discover
when spending any time around plant
pathologists is that we get excited when
we find a dead plant, or something declin-
ing,” she said. “It’s basically a puzzle to be
solved.”
Ritokova says she was destined to be-
come a forest pathologist, although not
necessarily in the United States.
She grew up in a small city in the for-
mer Czechoslovakia, which has since
been divided into two nations. Her home-
town, Košice, is now part of Slovakia. It’s
about 50 miles from the border with Uk-
raine.
Both her parents were scientists, and
made sure she spent plenty of time in na-
ture. She even joined the Young Foresters
Club in elementary school, where she
learned about forest ecosystems, native
trees, plants and wildlife.
“This is going to sound funny, but at
that time the local foresters taught us
how to use a shotgun, which is pretty
much unimaginable now,” she said.
Ritokova was in high school when the
Iron Curtain fell, in the early 1990s, and
jumped at the chance to travel.
“I came because there were so many
different opportunities,” she said. “I want-
ed to learn the language, I wanted to learn
about the culture. I never really thought
that I would stay here, it just turned out
that it happened.”
She worked as a nanny in San Francis-
co before earning a degree in conserva-
tion and resource studies at the Univer-
sity of California at Berkeley.
While there, she worked in the lab of
Dave Wood, an entomologist who encour-
aged her to pursue further studies in for-
est health.
In 2012 Ritokova moved to Corvallis to
work with the Swiss Needle Cast
Cooperative at Oregon State University.
Swiss needle cast is a fungal disease
that’s causing huge problems for Douglas
fir on the Oregon coast, she said.
In her role as associate director there,
she established an extensive research
and monitoring network along the entire
coast of Oregon and Washington.
Now, as the state’s forest pathologist,
she’ll continue to collaborate with the co-
operative.
A typical day for Ritokova could in-
clude performing aerial surveys, climbing
trees to get foliage samples, providing
technical advice to landowners, training
ODF field staff or representing ODF in a
scientific meeting.
“I really enjoy working outside. Even
on a rainy day in the woods sometimes it’s
better than sitting in the office,” she said.
Ritokova has succeeded despite pro-
found hearing loss, and learning English
as her third language.
When not working, Ritokova and her
husband enjoy hiking with their dogs. She
also travels to central Europe each year to
visit her family.
If you have an idea for someone we
should profile for this series, please email
Statesman Journal senior news editor
Alia Beard Rau at arau@gannett.com
Tracy Loew is a reporter at the States-
man Journal. She can be reached at
tloew@statesmanjournal.com, 503-399-
6779 or on Twitter at @Tracy_Loew.
his buddies still wanted to,” Roses said.
“We’ve been building a team ever since.
“Oh yeah, yeah, and I’m not going any-
where unless they fire me or my husband
wants to retire and us go do something else
for a while.”
She’s been the vice-chair of the hamlet
of Mulino since 2007, a precinct committee
person and has been on the budget com-
mittee of the Molalla River School District.
Roses said she has remained current
with national politics over the years.
When the opportunity to run for the fifth
district came up, she took it.
Roses said her priorities include advo-
cating for the federal government to give
some of the federal forests back to the
states, comprehensive immigration reform
and tightening up the border with Mexico.
“More people are dying from fentanyl
overdoses than they are for gun violence,”
Roses said. “And are we doing anything to
try and stop the flow? No. Over three mil-
lion people last year, and it’s looking like it’s
going to be more like four million this year.
“And the human suffering that is taking
place as a result. Human trafficking, sex
trafficking. It’s just a disgrace that the
country knows that that is going on and
really is doing little to nothing.”
Roses’ campaign raised $11,607 as of
March 31 and spent $6,929. All of the mon-
ey in her campaign, except for $200, has
come from her.
Bill Poehler covers Marion County for the
Statesman Journal. He can be reached at
bpoehler@StatesmanJournal.com
John Di Paola
Lori Chavez-DeRemer
Residence: Happy Valley.
Family: Married, two adult daughters.
Occupation: Co-owner of Anesthesia
Associates Northwest and Evolve Health.
Previous elected offices: Happy Valley
city councilor 2004 to 2010, Happy Valley
Mayor 2010 to 2018.
Jimmy Crumpacker
Residence: Tumalo
Occupation: Former Energy Investor.
Previous elected offices: None.
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Residence: Wilsonville
Family: Married, four kids, two grand-
children.
Occupation: Semi-retired orthopedic
surgeon.
Previous elected offices: None.
Madison Oatman
Residence: Bend
Family: Father, one sibling, girlfriend.
Occupation: Disaster restoration.
Previous elected offices: None.
Laurel Roses
Residence: Mulino
Family: Husband of 43 years Dave, six
children (one deceased), nine grandchil-
dren.
Occupation: Piano teacher, boys tennis
coach at Molalla High School.
Previous elected offices: Precinct com-
mittee person, vice-chair of hamlet of Muli-
no since 2007.
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