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Janice McDougle was selected as the deputy chief for state and private forestry in the Forest Service. She succeeded Phil Janik, who served in that position from June 1998 until March 1999, and who is now FS’s chief operating officer.

From November 1997 until her selection McDougle served as associate deputy chief for state and private forestry for the agency. She was FS’s associate deputy chief for the national forest system from 1994-97. From 1993-94 she served as a member of the Forest Service Reinvention Team. She was assistant director for planning and budget, as well as appeals and litigation coordinator, for FS’s Wildlife and Fisheries Staff from 1989-93.

Before joining the Forest Service in 1989 McDougle served at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for 19 years, where she began her career as a biologist in 1970 with its Division of River Basin Studies in Upper Darby, Pa. From 1973-74 she worked as a biologist with the Fish and Wildlife Service’s Division of Ecological Services in Concord, N.H. She subsequently served as a biologist with FWS’s Endangered Species Program in Washington, DC from 1975-84. She then worked as a program analyst in FWS’s Budget Office from 1985-86. From 1987-89 she served as a biologist with the agency’s Division of Wildlife Refuges.

A native of Birmingham, Ala., McDougle holds a B.S. degree in zoology from Alabama A&M University.