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Harv Forsgren was selected as the regional forester for the Forest Service’s Pacific Northwest Region, based in Portland, Ore. He succeeded Bob Williams, who served in that position from July 1996 until he retired in June 1999, following 42 years of service with USDA.

From June 1998 until his selection, Forsgren served as the director of FS’s Wildlife, Fish, and Rare Plants Staff at the agency’s headquarters office in Washington, DC. He was assistant director of that Staff from 1995-98. From 1991-95 he served as FS’s National Fisheries Program Leader.

Forsgren was the Regional Fisheries Program Leader at the agency’s Intermountain Region, based in Ogden, Utah, from 1988- 91. From 1986-88 he worked as a fisheries biologist on the Mt. Hood National Forest in Gresham, Ore., after having worked as a fisheries biologist, based first in Hailey, Idaho and then in Twin Falls, Idaho, on the Sawtooth National Forest from 1980-86. He began his full-time career with the Forest Service as a botanist and fisheries biologist on the Chugach National Forest in Anchorage, Alaska in 1978.

A native of Idaho, Forsgren holds a B.S. degree in fisheries management from Utah State University and an M.S. degree in natural resources management from Humboldt State University in Arcata, Calif.