USA: 16th Chief of the USFS, Abigail R. Kimbell

As a teenager, I was a junior counselor for a day camp and had an
opportunity to hear a guy talking about how trees grow and how you
measure trees, and it was my first realization that you could use math
and science outdoors. He was talking about forestry, forest
management, how you measure trees, how trees grow, how you calculate
all of that … I have always enjoyed math and science, but I have
always enjoyed being outdoors.

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There will certainly be a change in the personalities and the styles
of the people that I will be working with … my position is really
unique in government in that I am in a career position, whereas my
counterparts with the Bureau of Land Management, the Fish and Wildlife
Service, the Parks Service … those are all political appointee
positions, so those people haven’t even been named … and it will be
many months before they are in place.

So, that makes the Forest Service really unique in natural resource management on a federal level that way.

The things that are being emphasized right now by the
new Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack, certainly echo President
Obama’s writing and speeches … and the emphasis areas will be climate
change, energy, economic stimulus and things like openness in
government.

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