Backlash Continues Over State Forester’s Firing

Rep. Justin Humphrey, R-Lane, vice chair of the House Public Safety Committee, Friday called on Gov. Kevin Stitt to return Mark Goeller, the former state forester and director of Oklahoma Forestry Services, to his job. The governor fired Goeller, a resident of Seminole County, after wildfires devastated much of the state beginning March 14. The fires left four dead, 200 injured and more than 400 homes and other structures damaged or completely destroyed. One of the structures destroyed was Stitt’s farmhouse near Luther.