Jon Geffre, LS

Land Surveyor

Brookings

What makes you enjoy working at Banner? I enjoy that Banner encourages us to get involved with local and national organizations and gives us the time needed to contribute to these organizations.

What do you wish you knew more about? I wish I knew more about trees: how to identify them, how to take care of them, and the best place to plant different trees.

If you could convince everyone in the world to do one thing at one point in time, what would that thing be? I would like to convince the southern hemisphere to stay in one place at that time, while the northern hemisphere would all jump at the same time. It would be neat to see if this could possibly change the Earth's path.

If you were given one thousand acres of land that you didn’t need to pay taxes on but couldn’t sell, what would you do with it? I would begin by building a small gravel road system through the property to be able to travel around. Next, I would plant perennial grasses that get 8–10 feet tall all along the roadways to prevent wildlife from being able to see my movement on the property. After, I would plant thousands of trees to plan where and how deer travel and bed throughout my property. As I would wait for all my plants to mature, I would continue planting small food plots throughout the land. Lastly, I would build a cabin to live off-grid in a corner of my property as far away from people as possible.