Presidential Presence: Joe McDonald . . . by Vince Devlin
Below is a link to an article by reporter Vince Devlin that appeared in the Missoulian September 30, 2007. McDonald began fighting forest fires when barely in his teens and began smoke jumping out of Missoula after graduating high school in St. Ignatius. He attended school in Dillon, Montana where he played for coach Lou Rocheleau for 2 years and then transferred to the University of Montana where he coached and earned a Masters Degree. He is a descendant of Hudson’s Bay fur trader Angus McDonald.