Joel Frandsen is Retired Natural Resource Manager: He served as State Forester/Director of Utah’s Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands and is also a retiree of the US Forest Service having served on six national forests in four separate states. Joel has a life time interest in the old west, western history, legends, and folk tales with a passion for the outlaw-lawmen era of the Intermountain West. He has taught classes on the Outlaw Trail at the College of Eastern Utah and was on the Utah Humanities Council Speakers Bureau for eight years.  Through the College of Eastern Utah, Joel directed the “Re-enactment of the Castle Gate Payroll Robbery” on its one hundredth anniversary in 1997, the Re-enactment of “Butch is Dead,” the account of the demise of the outlaw Joe Walker and the Butch Cassidy look alike, Johnny Herring on its hundredth anniversary in 1998, and in 2001, he organized and directed the program “The End of the Outlaw Trail.” in Green River, Utah. . In 2004, Joel co-chaired the annual meeting of the Western Outlaw and Lawman History Association in Price, Utah.

If you are looking for an inspirational, knowledgeable and talented speaker you have come to the right place.  Joel Frandsen would be honored to speak at your local Historical Society Meetings, clubs

and organizations.  E-mail, call or write him at:

A. Joel Frandsen

P.O. Box 207

Elsinore, Utah  84724

kerry_joel@yahoo.com

435-527-4118

To learn more about his outlaw and lawmen presentation visit the

“Outlaws Trails and Tales” page.

He also has many presentations about the experiences he had while

managing the National Forests.  Learn about these presentations on the

“Forest Trails and Tales” page.

Besides speaking, he has published numerous articles in Western journals, and he has authored a book of his experience in managing the National Forests, titled “Forest Trails and Tales.”

To learn more about his book “Forest Trails and Tales” visit the

BOOK page and learn about his

other passion of true conservation.