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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 2017
Naselle superintendent can’t get enough of the outdoors
By DAMIAN MULINIX
For EO Media Group
‘I’m one of
those mind over
matter people,
so if I think I
can do it, I can
do it.’
N
ASELLE, Wash. — While she
may spend her days in offices
and classrooms, where Naselle-Grays
River Valley School District Superin-
tendent Lisa Nelson really wants to be
is out in the forest.
Nelson, a lifelong resident of
Naselle who graduated from Naselle
High School in 1984, earned a bache-
lor’s degree in business administration
from Western Washington University,
though it wasn’t her original choice.
“I went to Western with the full
intention of being a teacher,” she said
recently.
But when she registered for classes,
many of the required ones she needed
were already full.
“So I made an executive deci-
sion right there on the spot,” she said.
“’Nope, I’m going into business,’
because I could get those classes.”
But her career selling fax machines
right out of college in 1988 didn’t work
out as she’d hoped.
“I just had no passion for that,”
Nelson said. “I just didn’t care if they
wanted my fax machines. So that was
short-lived.”
Back to school
She soon realized she wished she’d
stuck with her original goal of becom-
ing a teacher and went back to school,
earning her master’s in education at
the Vancouver campus of Washington
State University. It wasn’t long before
she had her first job in the Ocean
Beach School District teaching lan-
guage arts at what was then the Ilwaco
Middle/High School at the Black Lake
Campus. After working six years as
a teacher, she was named principal
at Ilwaco High, a job she kept seven
more years.
She left the area to work as princi-
pal at the Adna Middle/High School,
but only stayed for a year. She was
commuting to her Naselle home every
weekend when the job of principal at
the Naselle Youth Camp opened up.
“I liked my job there, but I’d
always wanted to work for the Naselle
school district,” she explained. “I was
at the camp for five or six years. In the
meantime, I did my superintendent’s
program.”
She spent a year as camp princi-
pal and interim superintendent before
being hired full time as the superinten-
dent in 2014.
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Naselle-Grays
River
Valley
School District Superintendent
Lisa Nelson has always loved the
outdoors, especially around her
hometown.
“I’m pretty much a lifer,” she said.
“I’m one of those mind over matter
people, so if I think I can do it, I can
do it. I probably ask for a little more
trouble than I need.”
Q: In your professional career
you’ve stayed local. And knowing
your love of the outdoors, I won-
dered if the environment here has
kept you from looking elsewhere
over the years?
A: “Oh yeah, definitely. I’m just
not a pavement pounder. I’m a rock
climber. I like to just be out in the
woods and wilderness. I’m not much a
city fan. I don’t like the whole traffic/
people thing. I’m very much an intro-
vert. People ask, ‘Why are you doing
this job then? It’s political. It’s public.’
But the other side of me is not social.
I’d just as soon be up on that highest
hill looking over the top of the ridge,
doing my thing.”
Q: Were outdoor activities some-
thing that was important to you
growing up?
A: “Oh yeah. We had the neighbor-
hood crew, and we were either play-
ing football in the yard or kick the can.
Even when I was in Adna, which is
still very rural, I was still here every
weekend. I just couldn’t wait until Fri-
day after the game was over so I could
come home.”
Q: At what age did you start
hunting?
A: “I was in my 20s. It wasn’t until
my husband came along. I’d wanted
to. My uncles hunted, and my dad.
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But my mom wouldn’t let me do
the gun-safety class — even though
my brother got to. He’s three years
older than me, so I’d just follow him
around. Everything he did I was right
there. But I was probably 25 and felt
like I had a lot of ground to make up.
My mom always said, ‘You’re one of
those all or nothing people. You’re in
it 110 percent or not at all.’”
Q: I heard you were a bow
hunter, too
A: “Yeah, I started out as that,
because that’s what my husband did.
But then I decided that wasn’t really
my passion and so I started rifle hunt-
ing. Just for deer, elk and bear. But I
do respect the animals. There’s a cer-
tain sadness when you actually suc-
ceed. I like the one-on-one. The quiet
time. I like to hunt by myself for
the most part. I try and get in a spot
where no one else is, which is kinda
hard. Usually you hike in but there’s
other people who came from the other
side. There’s nothing more discourag-
ing than starting off on a road at 5 in
the morning and you get up there and
someone’s either already there or you
can see them coming.”
Q: Are these outdoor activities
your way of getting your head out
of your job for awhile?
A: “Sure. I think it didn’t start that
way. It started in the beginning as a
hobby or challenge and now it’s mor-
phed into that. Running is a stress
relief. I thought I’d go for a jog and
think, but I can’t think when I jog. I
can think about not dying while doing
it! How much thinking can you do
when you’re doing that? I did a half
marathon two Septembers ago, and
that took a lot of work. But I like the
physicality of things. Physical labor.
And maybe it’s because I don’t have
to do it all day long? I have so much
‘brain stuff’ throughout the day, that
I need that. They say the reason that
educators are so tired is not because
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a jog than brain-drain.”
Q: Do you have any funny or
unusual stories from hunting trips?
A: “Oh yeah. I’ve been lost in
the place I call ‘the swamp.’ It’s not
far from my house, which is really
embarrassing. I had my husband drop
me off, because he was going to Mon-
tana and I was going to hunt back to
the house. And I live just down the
road. I get halfway back and I decide
to head out to the swamp. It’s wet and
there’s a lot of little tidal sloughs that
come in there. I’ve been there many
times. I only took three (shotgun)
shells because the shots are gonna
be close. It was deer season. I go out
there and I get turned around. The tide
was out at the time. I had my com-
pass. I was prepared. I had my phone,
but it was dying. I hadn’t eaten since
lunch. So it’s like 6:30 (p.m.) and it’s
October so it’s getting dark. I knew if
I headed north I’d go back to the road.
You have the river on one side and the
highway on the other, but there are a
bunch of little sloughs in between. So
I decide to call for help.”
Q: How far from home do you
think you were?
A: “Probably only a couple miles
as the crow flies. Maybe even less. So
I call my brother and I have no idea
which way is north. So I say, ‘can you
come get me?’ I’ll shoot my gun (so
he can hear). So I shoot and he kinda
knows where I am, but he’s never been
out there. So he calls my husband,
Darrell, and he’ll figure it out. But by
this time, Darrell’s in McCleary (near
Olympia, some 90 minutes away). So
it’s 7 o’clock, and I think ‘don’t panic.’
My cellphone battery is now in the red,
and I think, ‘I’m just going to have to
stay here.’ I had fallen a couple times.
I was muddy. I don’t know what all
was in my fanny pack, but not much.
I tell my brother to send up a helicop-
ter to come find me. He doesn’t want
to do that. I got a hold of Darrell and he
goes, ‘Are you in that blankety blank
swamp?’ I said, ‘yeah.’ He said, ‘Use
your compass,’ and I said I just wasn’t
getting anywhere. I kept running into
sloughs. The wind was howling. It was
a stormy night.”
Q: Hard to get a beat on direc-
tional sound in that?
A: “Right. I thought, ‘Don’t shoot
all your shells because you might
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need one.’ So Darrell drove back
and I shot my gun again. My brother
was on the phone with me and they
started walking out there. So pretty
soon I can hear them hollering. I’m
hollering, but they don’t hear me. We
eventually reunited and I followed
them out, and one of his friends had
a couple cookies for me. Once we get
home he leaves again for Montana
that night. So the next day is Satur-
day and I was going to hunt and my
brother went with me. And we had
this little game where he went ‘Point
north,’ and I did. And I used my com-
pass. He said, ‘That is not north!’
And he gave it look and that compass
was put together upside down by the
manufacturer. So there was no way I
was going to get out. I had been tell-
ing myself, ‘Rely on your tools.’ But
clearly it was taking me farther and
farther away. It kinda made me cry. I
was not going to get out.”
Q: You might still be out there
A: “Right. It was after 8 by the
time I got out that night. But some-
body bought some of that property
now, so I can’t go back. Which may
be a good thing.”
Q: If you could design a perfect
day for you in the outdoors, what
would it include?
A: “I’ve thought about this a lot.
First, you’re up at the crack of dawn.”
Q: How early is early for you?
A: “Four. It depends, you have to
get to your spot before the next per-
son. It would be a hunting day of
sure.”
Q: Do you have a favorite ani-
mal to hunt?
A: “I hunt elk and deer mostly.
But as you get older, you get a lot
softer. I like the challenge part. I like
the physicality of it and I want to be
successful, but then there’s that sad-
ness of that animal is gone. But I
know someone else’s objective is to
get it if I don’t. I pass up deer every
year that I don’t shoot because I want
something big.”
Q: And you want to be there
before the next guy
A: “And if the sun’s coming up
and there’s a little fog, it keeps the
animals in their feeding mode a lit-
tle longer. It gives me enough time to
get to my place and be successful. If
it was a big one, that’d be a bonus.
It would also have to involve some
walking. I like to work for it. But I’m
not the game cleaner, so sometimes I
make a lot of work for others.”
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