Documenting Oregon State Parks Volunteer Abuse Experience

Forest trail on Oregon Coast, hiking terrain with slippery bridges requiring maintenance attention. Video recorded outdoors during walk, unplanned documentation session. Physical location adjacent to Honeyman State Park where original abuse occurred.

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December 20, 2025

21:23

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rswfire

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PUBLISHED

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[0:00] Hi there. I'm Sam.

[0:04] Bear with me. I didn't really plan this.

[0:07] Just hiking in the forest. Something I

[0:08] do all the time. And I need to make a

[0:11] video

[0:13] that I'm going to embed into a website,

[0:16] opdv volunteerabuse.org,

[0:18] that discusses abuse that I experienced

[0:20] at Oregon State Parks for two months.

[0:26] Um, I did record one, but I was still

[0:30] processing Oh, almost up there. I was

[0:33] still processing um a recent revelation

[0:37] I had about

[0:39] supervisory betrayal where I discovered

[0:43] there's a technique that people can use

[0:45] to elicit empathy from people

[0:49] uh in order to extract information from

[0:50] them. I had only recently put that piece

[0:53] of the puzzle together

[0:56] and

[0:58] couldn't really talk about it without

[1:01] just being flabbergasted by by the lack

[1:03] of ethics.

[1:05] So, there's there's two times where I

[1:09] use a little bit of profanity. Main one

[1:11] being

[1:13] not ashamed of it. Uh it's up on that

[1:16] website right now, but I do want to

[1:17] replace it. I want you to get to know

[1:20] me. I want you to know what happened.

[1:23] So, let me try.

[1:26] It's been nine months.

[1:29] Last year, about a year ago, in October,

[1:32] I traveled across the country from

[1:34] Kentucky to Oregon in an RV

[1:40] to embark on a new chapter in my life.

[1:42] I'm nearly 50 years old. I had a very

[1:44] successful career as a freelance

[1:46] programmer,

[1:47] but it felt empty and I wanted something

[1:49] new. A big part of me had always

[1:54] enjoyed being outdoors. I was a boy

[1:55] scout as a kid and I just didn't like

[1:58] being locked up in a house all the time.

[2:00] It just felt like containment that was

[2:03] just draining the drain the life out of

[2:05] me.

[2:07] So, I made a choice. I decided to move

[2:08] into an RV.

[2:10] And 6 months after I did that, I came to

[2:13] the Oregon coast and fell in love with

[2:15] the ocean, Pacific Ocean, and the parks

[2:19] here. The Oregon State parks are [ __ ]

[2:20] beautiful. Well, I did it again.

[2:26] Okay,

[2:28] whatever. You know,

[2:33] I could beep it out, but why? I use that

[2:36] word there because

[2:38] because they're that extraordinary to

[2:40] me. The Oregon state parks are

[2:42] incredible

[2:44] and I decided to volunteer for them in

[2:46] January.

[2:48] First month was fine. I was at Tugman

[2:49] State Park. My boss was amazing. Uh

[2:53] coolest person I could have ever

[2:54] imagined being a park ranger. So, uh, I

[2:57] felt really good that,

[3:00] um, there would be a place for me within

[3:02] that institution

[3:05] because we had certain attributes in

[3:06] common and if they made room for her,

[3:09] they could have made room for me. That's

[3:11] how I looked at it.

[3:14] And

[3:18] couple weeks into that, a different

[3:20] volunteer told me about Honeyman State

[3:22] Park and the the organ dunes and how

[3:25] people um rode ATVs on them, you know,

[3:29] uh dirt bikes and quads and his side by

[3:32] sides. And I was very curious, very

[3:34] interested because I've um I'm an owner

[3:37] of a Jeep Wrangler.

[3:39] It's one of my most it is my most

[3:41] important thing that I own.

[3:43] And

[3:46] so I got it transferred there for

[3:48] February and March.

[3:52] One weekend there was a power outage.

[3:56] And this happened

[3:58] after the supervisor there had um shut

[4:02] the water off the day before and caused

[4:04] uh an issue with one of the guests who

[4:06] confronted me.

[4:09] And then that night the power went out.

[4:12] Same guest confronted me again 3:00 in

[4:13] the morning. And I reached out to her at

[4:17] 6:00 a.m. trying to get clarification on

[4:19] what I'm supposed to do. And she

[4:22] responded dismissively.

[4:24] And something told me in that moment

[4:26] that I needed to protect myself from

[4:28] her. I don't know what it was. I just

[4:29] felt it. And the next two months would

[4:32] prove I was right. So I documented it

[4:35] like any professional would.

[4:38] And

[4:40] from that moment on, they started

[4:42] escalating. That day, the park manager

[4:44] showed up at the welcome center while I

[4:46] was working alone, confronted me with

[4:48] first week mistakes I had made. Simple

[4:50] things that anyone new to a position

[4:53] would make that I corrected myself

[4:56] because I self correct all the time, but

[4:59] they were just putting me on notice. How

[5:01] dare you? um

[5:04] note the tone of someone in our

[5:06] leadership

[5:08] there. I noticed that's what they were

[5:09] telling me. I recognized it.

[5:13] My drug supervisor,

[5:16] someone that I really respected and

[5:18] liked as a person, disappeared

[5:22] for 4 days. There was silence. And I was

[5:25] worried. So, I sent them an email asking

[5:29] if we could reset, telling them that I

[5:31] would be a model volunteer. I would

[5:38] I would conform.

[5:41] Um, big deal for someone like me.

[5:45] They pretended that they would reset,

[5:49] but the escalations did not stop there.

[5:52] I didn't know this though. I thought

[5:53] that we truly had things went back to

[5:56] normal for a couple days. I applied for

[5:57] a job there as a seasonal park ranger

[5:59] because that was one of the things I was

[6:01] really interested in becoming was a park

[6:03] ranger instead of a computer programmer

[6:05] like I've been for the first half of my

[6:07] life. And that just happened to go to

[6:10] the same supervisor um that I had the

[6:12] issue with

[6:14] and she responded badly.

[6:17] So I withdrew it. I withdrew the

[6:20] application. I didn't explain why.

[6:23] Um I just knew that it was better to

[6:25] just get through my time there and maybe

[6:27] I'll find a different a different jobs,

[6:29] you know, a different uh park. You know,

[6:31] I just wanted to get through my time

[6:32] there.

[6:34] And from that moment on, my direct

[6:38] supervisor came into the welcome center

[6:39] one night

[6:41] um and spent an hour and a half talking

[6:44] about himself, eliciting empathy from me

[6:47] in order to get me to start talking

[6:48] about why I had withdrawn that

[6:49] application.

[6:51] I didn't that night, but I was really

[6:54] shocked by how vulnerable he had been

[6:56] with me. And I sat with that overnight.

[7:00] And the next day I took him on a walk

[7:02] with me and I told him

[7:04] and then they started weaponizing it

[7:06] all. They weaponized why I had moved to

[7:07] the coast. Uh they weaponized my

[7:10] sexuality. They implied that I had a

[7:12] crush on him. I did not. I had even set

[7:15] a boundary with this man before we went

[7:17] on that walk and told him it was not

[7:18] romantic for me. This was a married man.

[7:21] I had absolutely zero interest in a

[7:23] romantic relationship with this person,

[7:26] but they implied otherwise.

[7:29] And

[7:33] after that walk, about a week goes by, I

[7:36] don't see him. It's the end of February.

[7:39] It's my last day in the welcome center.

[7:40] After that, I'm going to start cleaning

[7:41] dirts for March. I'm asked to work a

[7:44] double. And I do by myself. 8 hours is

[7:47] free labor. And then an hour past that

[7:48] to help uh somebody who just needed

[7:51] needed a place to stay, didn't have

[7:53] reservations, and was having trouble. I

[7:55] spent an hour working with her to get

[7:57] her a spot, a campsite. So, you know, I

[8:00] worked nine hours that day because I was

[8:02] there to serve, truly there to serve.

[8:05] And

[8:07] the next day, I was going to be trained

[8:09] by a ranger that I just

[8:13] didn't mesh well with. Every time I saw

[8:15] this person, I could, he was just very

[8:17] condescending all the time. And I

[8:19] thought if this person trains me at the

[8:21] next role that I have, you know, he's

[8:24] going to be in a position of authority

[8:25] over me and his condescension is going

[8:27] to be worse. So I tried to prevent the

[8:30] problem.

[8:31] Tried to prevent a recurrence of what

[8:33] had happened at the beginning.

[8:36] And I asked my direct supervisor, could

[8:38] somebody else train me? Actually, he

[8:40] suggested that. I didn't. He suggested

[8:42] that. I just told him of the situation.

[8:44] He said, I can have somebody else train

[8:45] you. How does that sound? I said,

[8:46] perfect. And then the next day,

[8:49] um, this person didn't know anything

[8:51] about it. So, I'm texting that person

[8:54] saying, "Well, wait a minute. You know,

[8:55] I was promised this. This is important.

[8:57] If you can't, then I'm just going to

[8:58] wait until I can talk to my direct

[8:59] supervisor about it." And so, they make

[9:02] a um, they ask me, "How about if I just

[9:05] go with you and, you know, while that

[9:07] other ranger is also there, how about,

[9:09] you know, we're both there." I'm like,

[9:10] "Okay, it's a compromise. I can live

[9:12] with that." And I did, and everything

[9:13] was fine. But I saw what they were

[9:16] doing. I knew what they were doing at

[9:17] this point. It was just so obvious. Uh

[9:20] they were they were trying to they were

[9:23] trying to get rid of me. They were

[9:24] trying to create a paper trail or

[9:25] situation or something that that would

[9:28] justify them just kicking me out.

[9:32] So I sent an email to my direct

[9:33] supervisor called trust and I told him

[9:35] why I didn't trust him and I um

[9:38] enumerated all the reasons why that had

[9:40] happened in the past month. And then a

[9:42] couple days later, uh, the two

[9:44] leadership positions, the manager and

[9:46] the supervisor, sat me down at the DU

[9:48] area at a picnic table and spent over an

[9:50] hour abusing me, telling me that I would

[9:53] never be given the benefit of the doubt,

[9:54] telling me to chew glass and swallow it.

[9:57] Um,

[10:00] telling me that I was the problem,

[10:01] nobody liked me, I made everyone

[10:03] uncomfortable, you know, just treating

[10:06] me real badly. Uh, telling me that I

[10:08] could just leave if I felt

[10:09] uncomfortable.

[10:11] and I recorded it. That is that is part

[10:14] of the archive. There is a video where

[10:17] you can watch that entire hour of them

[10:20] abusing me. You can even hear the

[10:23] supervisor jump in at the end when the

[10:25] manager starts making mistakes cuz she's

[10:28] trying to um salvage what he's doing.

[10:32] And then she brings up my job

[10:34] application and all these things. And um

[10:38] you can just and during that whole whole

[10:41] conversation they're talking about how

[10:44] um always comes back to that first event

[10:46] with her. They couldn't name one thing

[10:49] that I had done wrong.

[10:51] It just was all insinuation

[10:54] plausible deniability. It was a pattern.

[10:57] This is a very common institutional

[10:59] pattern that should not be possible

[11:01] anymore. It's straight up psychological

[11:03] abuse.

[11:05] But I recorded it and then I told them I

[11:08] recorded it

[11:10] because I thought, "Okay, this will make

[11:12] them stop. Finally, I have the leverage

[11:15] I need to make them stop abusing me.

[11:18] That's why I recorded it."

[11:21] A couple days later, the regional person

[11:24] who's responsible for the volunteer

[11:25] program caused to intimidate me about

[11:27] recording that

[11:29] does not really tried to engage with me

[11:31] on any type of substance. I record this

[11:34] too, by the way. Um, I call her back

[11:36] though. This call I don't record. I just

[11:38] call her back because I want her to feel

[11:40] comfortable. I'm not trying to create a

[11:42] problem here, you know. Um, and I try to

[11:45] tell her what's happening. And she says,

[11:47] "Get through your time there. Every park

[11:49] is different."

[11:51] And so I put my head down and do exactly

[11:53] what she says.

[11:55] And then a couple weeks later, a man

[11:57] that I didn't know showed up while I was

[11:59] cleaning the yurts by myself. All of

[12:01] them open, propped open with trash cans

[12:03] in front of the doors, a sanitizer

[12:05] running inside of them. I'm just sitting

[12:07] here and um

[12:10] clearly mid clean. And this man says,

[12:13] "I'm with the park service. I'm my team

[12:16] and I need to take pictures of these

[12:17] shirts for the photos on our website."

[12:19] And then he immediately starts

[12:21] questioning me about um my thoughts on

[12:24] leadership. And it's intimate and forced

[12:27] and wild. It's just absolutely wild. And

[12:29] I'm thinking to myself, this is a state

[12:31] park. I am a volunteer. I'm free labor.

[12:34] This cannot be what it looks like. It

[12:36] just it can't like it was too over the

[12:38] top. But that's precisely what it was.

[12:41] After that, I email the park supervisor

[12:45] because I want it on record. I know this

[12:47] is going to be important later. So,

[12:51] I do that and she confirms, yeah, he's

[12:52] from it. Never says who he is. This man

[12:55] had no identification. He was not in

[12:57] uniform. He just showed up while all the

[13:00] rangers were gone at a regional event.

[13:01] All of this can be verified, by the way.

[13:03] Everything I've said. Um,

[13:07] so they actually sent someone to surveil

[13:10] me and to get me to incriminate myself.

[13:12] They wanted me to say something they

[13:14] could use to get rid of me, but that

[13:16] didn't happen. I actually misinterpreted

[13:18] it like because I'm like, "This is way

[13:20] too over the top. This cannot be what it

[13:22] looks like." And it's so intimate. I

[13:24] think this man's flirting with me. I

[13:26] actually make a video about that um

[13:28] after the fact just talking about my

[13:30] experiences from the day and um what

[13:32] what it felt like. You know, I never

[13:34] said that this was a person from um

[13:36] Oregon State Parks or anything like

[13:37] that. I was very vague. It's just a man,

[13:39] you know, that I cuz he never identified

[13:41] himself. I didn't know who he was.

[13:43] Um, so that's

[13:45] proof that in the moment,

[13:49] um,

[13:50] this happened to me.

[13:54] From there,

[13:56] couple days later,

[13:59] park manager calls me up on the phone

[14:01] while I'm doing my job and tells me that

[14:04] they want to have another meeting with

[14:05] me one day before I'm supposed to leave.

[14:09] I ask why and he tells me

[14:13] it's because so we originally had the

[14:15] storm. I got to get around stuff. Um and

[14:17] he tells me

[14:19] um

[14:21] I'm still being a problem still.

[14:25] And I'm just like wow. Like this man

[14:27] never stops. Like I've got a video of

[14:30] you um abusing me. Like there's no way

[14:33] that you could be doing this right now.

[14:34] This is just this is just

[14:42] I mean this man is a a walking liability

[14:44] as far as I'm concerned. And so I'm

[14:46] listening to him and I'm like what do

[14:48] you mean I still being a problem? And he

[14:51] mentions uh this saying about a homeless

[14:53] man's journal that I turned in and uses

[14:55] that as a pretext. And then finally, you

[14:58] know, cuz he keeps going on and on. I

[14:59] say, "You're a bully." I don't say it

[15:02] loud or anything like that. I just I

[15:03] just uh I name it. This is what's

[15:05] happening. He's being a bully right now.

[15:07] And then he he kicks me out of the park

[15:10] right then and there on the phone. Hour

[15:12] later, he shows up in my RV, ask for the

[15:14] keys. I record this on camera. He tells

[15:16] me he has no documentation for this act

[15:19] that he's doing on camera.

[15:22] And I've got 24 hours to leave the park.

[15:24] And I have no money. I'm, you know,

[15:27] completely restructuring my life, you

[15:29] know, around this whole volunteer thing.

[15:31] We've got uh plans all year long with

[15:33] this state parks. They know this, you

[15:35] know, different places. And

[15:38] this jeopardized everything, which was

[15:39] the point. And

[15:42] so I get on camera and I tell my

[15:44] audience what happened to me for the

[15:45] first time. And then I share that with

[15:48] the regional person so that she knows

[15:50] what's going on. And then the next day

[15:53] or the day after that, we have our

[15:55] interview together and she starts

[15:57] pathizing me. Um, she just twists

[16:00] everything that happened to me, made me

[16:02] the problem. And that's on camera. I

[16:04] recorded that, too. That's in the

[16:06] archive.

[16:08] And then she does the most amazing

[16:10] thing. She puts in writing that the

[16:12] reason I'm being expelled from Oregon

[16:15] State Parks, never to be allowed to

[16:16] volunteer again, is because of my

[16:18] speech, because I recorded that video

[16:20] telling my audience what had happened to

[16:22] me. And I did that because I had 24

[16:25] hours to get out of there and no money,

[16:26] and I needed help. and I was just trying

[16:28] to

[16:30] explain what was happening in my life at

[16:31] that time. So

[16:36] that's what happened to me at Oregon

[16:38] State Parks. I mean,

[16:41] I I travel across the country, you know,

[16:45] to

[16:46] Whoa, this is a slippery bridge. I

[16:48] forgot about that. I really need to fix

[16:50] this. I'm actually kind of responsible

[16:51] for these now. Well, I'm not

[16:53] responsible. I shouldn't say that. That

[16:54] came out way wrong. Um, I just I have a

[16:57] thing about um

[17:00] I I did this at at Tugman and so I'm

[17:02] kind of partial to it. It's technically

[17:04] I don't I'm not responsible for trails.

[17:06] I work for a different agency now. Um

[17:09] but I had been meaning to talk to them

[17:10] about these bridges just to

[17:13] um just because of that right there. Um

[17:21] look, I'm an honest person. I just am.

[17:24] You know, I don't I don't filter the

[17:26] truth.

[17:30] I anchor myself to reality. And they

[17:33] spent a very long time trying to

[17:36] trying to overwrite my reality. I won't

[17:39] let them do that because that's eraser

[17:41] and it's unacceptable and it shouldn't

[17:44] happen especially as a volunteer where

[17:46] you are literally just

[17:50] um

[17:52] working for a state agency, you know, uh

[17:55] government like public works

[17:58] and just trying to be a valued asset to

[18:00] them. And a couple of people who are

[18:03] abusive get in the way of that and

[18:05] there's no recourse. There's nothing you

[18:07] can do about it. There's no one you can

[18:08] go to.

[18:10] It's just

[18:14] shocking. I tried to fix it. So, several

[18:18] months later, I write an open letter to

[18:20] the director of Oregon State Parks,

[18:22] lease assumption.

[18:24] Wonderful letter. And within 12 hours,

[18:26] she responds to it with procedural

[18:28] language and deflection. And I hear

[18:30] nothing for many, many months. I had

[18:33] also submitted a public records request

[18:35] because very good at looking at patterns

[18:38] and if they had given me those documents

[18:40] I would have been able to prove that

[18:41] this isn't just about me. This is this

[18:43] is how they operate. But they spent 90

[18:46] days uh pretending they had replied um

[18:51] but they had put it behind a portal that

[18:52] I didn't have access to that they didn't

[18:54] tell me about for 90 days.

[18:57] So

[18:58] I withdrew that because that became

[19:00] evidence as far as I'm concerned. And

[19:01] that was obstruction right there.

[19:04] And then in December, I contacted her

[19:06] again and she tried to reframe my

[19:09] documentation, my archive as emotional

[19:11] processing, that is the laundering of my

[19:13] experience into pathization

[19:15] in order to discredit it. That's what

[19:18] she did.

[19:19] From that point forward,

[19:23] I contacted the governor. I haven't

[19:24] heard from her.

[19:26] Um, not even an acknowledgement. And

[19:28] that's where we are now.

[19:32] For nine months,

[19:35] I have been directly next door to where

[19:38] this all happened at Honeyman State Park

[19:39] on the Oregon coast

[19:42] in the Oregon Dunes

[19:46] as a volunteer for nine months. Promoted

[19:47] twice. Been on several different

[19:49] campgrounds, promoted to caretaker. Uh

[19:52] given a work truck, a route uh that I

[19:55] have to complete every day. Trust

[20:02] which just shows

[20:05] I mean

[20:08] it is so black and white what happened

[20:10] to me and they're just trying to ignore

[20:13] it because they have they have no def

[20:16] defense for this. So they're just being

[20:18] quiet. There's nothing they can say. Uh

[20:21] they're shielding everybody. Everybody.

[20:24] The ones who abused me, the ones who

[20:26] covered it up, the ones who won't

[20:28] acknowledge it.

[20:34] I want you to ask yourself,

[20:37] say how you want our government to

[20:38] operate.

[20:43] I was not treated fairly.

[20:45] I was abused for two months.

[20:49] I know my language is very direct, but

[20:53] when you are describing things like

[20:54] this, you need to be you need clarity.

[20:58] You need to be able to speak about them

[20:59] with clarity.

[21:01] Um

[21:03] or it gets laundered

[21:05] into something it never was. Flattened

[21:08] into something it never was.

[21:12] So,

[21:15] this is not going away. I've already

[21:18] built the archive. It is comprehensive

[21:20] and I invite you to go look at it.

Energetic Signature resolute clarity

Field State coherent under sustained pressure

Orientation toward institutional accountability through documentation

Summary

rswfire records a video testimony while hiking in forest, documenting institutional abuse experienced during two-month volunteer period at Oregon State Parks. He describes traveling from Kentucky to Oregon in October, volunteering at Tugman State Park in January (positive experience), then transferring to Honeyman State Park for February-March where escalating abuse occurred. After documenting supervisor's dismissive response to power outage, rswfire faced retaliation including confrontation over first-week mistakes, weaponization of personal disclosures about sexuality and life circumstances, and implied romantic interest in married supervisor. He recorded hour-long abusive meeting with park manager and supervisor, then faced surveillance by unidentified man claiming to be from park service. Park manager expelled him with 24 hours notice after he called manager a bully, citing his public video about the experience as reason for permanent ban from volunteering. Regional coordinator pathologized his documentation. Public records request was obstructed for 90 days. Director Lisa Sumption responded to open letter with deflection, later reframed his archive as 'emotional processing.' Governor has not responded. rswfire has worked nine months as volunteer for different agency (Forest Service) directly adjacent to Honeyman, promoted twice to caretaker position with work truck and route. He maintains comprehensive archive at opdvolunteerabuse.org and states this documentation will not cease.

Signal Analysis

Substrate

This signal holds a precise architecture of institutional abuse documentation and sovereign refusal of narrative laundering. The substrate is evidentiary coherence—a comprehensive archive that maps systematic psychological abuse, procedural obstruction, and institutional cover-up across multiple actors and timelines. The ontological position is one of anchored reality: refusing pathologization, maintaining structural clarity despite sustained attempts at erasure, and building public record as counter-infrastructure to institutional opacity.

Dominant Language

ethical infrastructural technical architectural

Entities

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beings

rswfire/Sam

Nearly 50-year-old gay man, former freelance programmer from Kentucky, volunteer documenting institutional abuse

Lisa Sumption

Director of Oregon State Parks who responded to open letter with deflection and later reframed archive as emotional processing

Park Manager (Honeyman)

Leadership figure who confronted rswfire about first-week mistakes, participated in abusive meeting, expelled him from park

Park Supervisor (Honeyman)

Female supervisor involved in initial power outage dismissal, job application rejection, abusive meeting, and email confirmation of surveillance

Direct Supervisor (Honeyman)

Married man who elicited empathy to extract information, suggested alternative trainer, weaponized disclosures

Regional Volunteer Coordinator

Person who intimidated rswfire about recording, advised to 'get through time there,' later pathologized documentation in interview

Unidentified Surveillance Man

Man claiming to be from park service who appeared during yurt cleaning to question rswfire about leadership, no identification or uniform

Tugman Supervisor

First month supervisor described as amazing, coolest person, positive role model

Oregon Governor

State official contacted by rswfire who has not responded or acknowledged contact

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places

Tugman State Park

First volunteer placement in January with positive experience and supportive supervisor

Honeyman State Park

February-March volunteer placement where abuse occurred, adjacent to Oregon Dunes

Oregon Dunes

ATV and off-road vehicle area near Honeyman State Park

Oregon Coast

Geographic location where rswfire lives and works, Pacific Ocean region

Kentucky

State rswfire traveled from to Oregon

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systems

Oregon State Parks

State agency where rswfire volunteered and experienced institutional abuse

Forest Service

Current employer agency where rswfire has worked nine months as volunteer caretaker

Jeep Wrangler

rswfire's most important possession, relevant to interest in Oregon Dunes off-roading

Living space rswfire moved into and traveled in from Kentucky to Oregon

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media

opdvolunteerabuse.org

Website hosting comprehensive archive of abuse documentation

Actions

Performed

• hiking in forest
• recording video testimony
• walking across slippery bridge
• noting bridge maintenance needs

Referenced

• traveled from Kentucky to Oregon in RV
• volunteered at Tugman State Park in January
• transferred to Honeyman State Park for February-March
• documented supervisor's dismissive response to power outage
• applied for seasonal park ranger position
• withdrew job application
• went on walk with direct supervisor and disclosed personal information
• worked 9-hour double shift alone in welcome center
• requested different trainer for cleaning duties
• sent 'trust' email to direct supervisor
• recorded hour-long abusive meeting with manager and supervisor
• told leadership he recorded the meeting
• received intimidation call from regional volunteer coordinator
• called regional coordinator back without recording
• was surveilled by unidentified man claiming to be from park service
• made video about surveillance experience
• was called by park manager and told about meeting
• called park manager a bully on phone
• was expelled from park with 24 hours notice
• recorded video telling audience about expulsion
• shared video with regional coordinator
• had interview with regional coordinator
• submitted public records request
• withdrew public records request after 90-day obstruction
• wrote open letter to Director Lisa Sumption
• contacted director again in December
• contacted governor
• worked nine months for Forest Service adjacent to Honeyman
• promoted twice to caretaker position
• given work truck and daily route

Planned

• embed video into opdvolunteerabuse.org website
• replace earlier video with this one
• continue documentation and advocacy
• maintain archive visibility

Symbolic Elements

forest ocean bridge archive RV Jeep trail

Ontological States

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sovereign (refusing institutional reframing)
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coherent (unified documentation across nine-month timeline)
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embedded (physically proximate to site of abuse)
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transitional (between institutional roles and identities)

Subsystems

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ethical (primary driver—institutional accountability)
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cognitive (pattern recognition across institutional behavior)
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infrastructural (archive construction as counter-system)
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relational (functional contrast—current vs. prior institutional context)
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financial (constraint as operational pressure)
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spatial (physical proximity as strategic positioning)
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temporal (nine-month sustained documentation)

Signal Reflection

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Transmission Details

Source Type

local

Video Quality

1920 × 1080 @ 30fps

Duration