Roger Fletcher is a historian, author, and a professor emeritus at Oregon State University where he was a Oregon State University Extension educator and administrator with special emphasis on information and technology transfer to Families and Youth, Agriculture, and Forestry. More recently he has researched the origins of the McKenzie River Drift Boat at its spawning grounds here on the McKenzie River and has published those findings in his book Drift Boats and River Dories: Their History, Design, Construction and Use, 2007.