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^{SPECIAL REPORTS: from the Methow Valley News}

• ^{An overview of water issues}

• ^{Ghosts of the Past}

• ^{Special report: The ESA, an analysis and historical perspective}

• ^{Endangered Species index}

• ^{Thirtymile Fire: Chewuch tragedy}

• ^{Arrowleaf: the last resort}

• ^{Phantom riches?: Methow residents follow commodities trading muse}

• ^{A billionaire German family's love of the Methow shapes its destiny}

Before becoming licensed in Oregon Lee was owner-publisher of the Methow Valley News, a century-old newspaper in a remote recreation and agricultural area of Washington near the British Columbia border. He began his association with the newspaper as an investor and director in the mid 1980s. In his tenure as owner- publisher from 1994-2001 the newspaper won numerous awards including selection by the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association as the top weekly in its circulation class. Lee was the lead reporter while supervising his paper’s coverage of resort development, endangered species and water allocation issues that  brought national attention to the Methow Valley and the upper Columbia River system. This experience nurtured an in depth knowledge and insight into the tensions arising from traditional values of the agricultural  "Old West" and the technological, environmental and sociological challenges of the  "New West." 

A North Carolina native, Lee grew up in a family that owned and operated steam- powered timber and grain processing mills in the small town of Wise, NC,  just south of the Virginia border. From middle school through  high school years he rolled logs from the mill yard to the saw, loaded  lumber onto flat-bed trucks, hauled firewood to customers, stoked the mill boiler with saw shavings and handled bags of grain at the mill.  Lee was named after his maternal great-uncle, Lee Paschal, the founder-president of  Richmond (Virginia) Hotels and  head of Wise Construction, one of  three prime contractors for construction of the Pentagon. Lee often went fishing and frog "gigging" in the waters later captured in the quarry that provided stone used in construction of the Pentagon as well as commercial buildings and homes in Richmond and Washington, DC.

Lee graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and spent an undistinguished year as a football  walk-on sidelined by a knee injury. After graduation he heeded a call from Uncle Sam (in the form of his draft notice) to serve two years in the Army before beginning his professional career.

Lee’s personal pursuits include cross-country skiing, mountain biking, fly fishing and river rafting, the latter which extends an interest from college summers spent as a commercial rafting guide on the Snake River in Wyoming’s Jackson Hole. His first seasons in Wyoming also included assignments in food service and housekeeping for Jackson Lake Lodge. There he developed an appreciation for customer care issues inherent in the tourism business.  

Book always in reach:
"Fly fishing Basics" a good read after a bad day of casting.
Political persuasion: Independent-no party affiliation; A guiding principle-- facts, issues and individual situations are more important than inflexible ideology.
Quick way to relax:
Shooting hoops--anywhere there's a rim and net; great exercise and a test of concentration. (travel tip: deflate basketball and pack a mini-pump)
Nickname:
Bear--a pseudonym from days as a Wyoming river guide--and which "bears" (groans and apologies) no relationship to the subject's personality.