

Through 1977 he worked on the Black Hills National Forest, Harney Ranger District, doing timber sale preparation and administration and timber stand improvement through thinning. Army Signal Center and School, Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, where he worked as an Air Defense Radar Repairman and Instructor of Solid State Electronics, Specialist E-5. Then, from 1970-72 he was assigned to the U.S.

Army at Fort Dix, New Jersey (1969-1970).

He attended college at the University of Vermont and completed a B.S. “No one in my family hunted but there was a vintage copy of ‘Camping and Woodcraft’ by Horace Kephart in the house that I read many times.” “I started hunting at age 12 protecting our vegetable garden from wood chucks,” Lew said. Lew was born in Long Island, New York, and raised in West Newbury, Vermont. The Colorado chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers recently appointed Lewis French as an Assistant Regional Director for the Central West Slope Group.
