Jeffery W. Clark Emmett, Idaho Jeff died at home at age 61. He was born April 27, 1950 in Holladay, Utah to Frank and Thelma Clark, the youngest of four children. As a youth, Jeff played Pop Warner baseball and football, continuing to play both sports in high school. After graduating from Olympus High School in 1968, he enrolled at the University of Utah for one year, and then transferred to the College of Forestry at Utah State University. Over the summers he was worked various jobs for the U.S. Forest Service in Idaho as a smoke chaser, recreation technician and timber marker. He graduated in 1973 with a degree in Forest Watershed Management. After college he worked as a Hot Shot on the St. Joe Inter-Regional fire crew in Northern Idaho, and the next two years he worked in Alaska on the BLM Helitack fire crew, before getting a permanent job in 1976 with the U.S. F. S. North Central Experiment Station in Northern. Minnesota. The job moved him to Northern Michigan in 1978, where he met his future wife, Mary aka "Polly" Hagen. That summer he began working as the presale forester on the Idaho City Ranger Station. Mary followed him to Idaho and they were married in July, 1978. In 1981 they moved to Emmett where Jeffery began work as the Timber Sale Administrator for the Emmett District. In March, 1983 his son was born. Jeffery remained at the Emmett Ranger District until his retirement in January of this year, taking several temporary assignments in other nearby districts and in Wyoming and Mississippi. Jeffery was a life-long outdoorsman, he fly fished all over Idaho and Montana, and hunted pheasants, chuckars, ducks, and turkey from the foothills of Oregon to Montana prairie, always accompanied by his cherished black labs. Jeffery made many valuable friendships both in his workplace and in other endeavors. He met some pretty great and colorful characters playing rugby in his younger days, and playing racquetball in his middle-age. During his last months he so appreciated all the phone calls, cards and notes from the wonderful people he had met through the years, and he enjoyed so much the company of his many visitors, always looking forward to whomever was coming up the driveway. He remained positive and cheerful, the only way he knew how to be. Jeffery was preceded in death by his parents and his friend, Bill Terrill. He is survived by his devoted wife, Mary (Polly), beloved son, his hunting dogs Leto and Mike, his sister Sue and her husband Tony, brother Dick and wife Karren, brother Paul and wife Pat, his good friends, Margaret Terrill, and Gary and Rosemary Scheihing. At his request, no services will be held.