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Marten named Northern Regional forester based in Missoula

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PUBLIC LANDS -- A former University of Idaho student and Kootenai National Forest planner has been named regional forester for the U.S. Forest Service Northern Region based in Missoula.

 Leanne Marten has been selected to manage National Forest System lands across 25 million acres spread over five states, including 12 National Forests located within the perimeter of northeastern Washington, northern Idaho and Montana and well as the National Grasslands in North Dakota and northwestern South Dakota.

Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell announced the appointment on Friday

Marten has worked for the Forest Service for more than 20 years and is currently the National Director for Ecosystem Management Coordination for the US Forest Service.

She replaces Faye Krueger, who retired from the Forest Service in January.

Here's more from the Forest Service on the new regional forester's background:

Marten is National Director for Ecosystem Management Coordination for the U.S. Forest Service. She has worked for the Forest Service for more than 20 years, including assignments in the Northern Region. Leanne started her career as a seasonal employee on the Palouse Ranger District, Clearwater National Forest in Northern Idaho while obtaining her Bachelors of Science in Environmental Science from Washington State University. She went on to graduate school at the University of Idaho, where she received her Masters of Science in Forest Resources.

After finishing up her schooling, Marten worked full time for the Forest Service on the Canoe Gulch Ranger District of the Kootenai National Forest in Montana. She later worked as a planner and environmental coordinator for the Kootenai prior to moving east to be a District Ranger on the Ottawa National Forest in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Deputy Forest Supervisor and Forest Supervisor on the Huron-Manistee National Forest in the lower peninsula of Michigan and Forest Supervisor on the Allegheny National Forest in Northwest Pennsylvania.

Most recently, Marten served as the National Director for Wilderness and Wild & Scenic Rivers in Washington, D.C. She has also had many temporary assignments throughout her career, including a detail as Deputy Regional Forester of the Southwestern Region, in Albuquerque, New Mexico; Associate Deputy Chief for National Forest Systems, Washington, D.C.; and most recently, Acting Director for the National Partnership Office, Washington, D.C.

Marten grew up in the Forest Service, a second-generation employee, which combined with two decades of service give her extensive background into the Agency, it’s mission of caring for the land, its programs and its people.

Marten is married and currently lives in northern Virginia.  She has two sons, one in the U.S. Marine Corps, stationed at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina and the other starting college at the University of Idaho this Fall. 

 



Rich Landers
Rich Landers joined The Spokesman-Review in 1977. He is the Outdoors editor for the Sports Department writing and photographing stories about hiking, hunting, fishing, boating, conservation, nature and wildlife and related topics.

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