Dale Bosworth was selected as the 15^th chief of the Forest Service. He succeeded Mike Dombeck, who served in that position from January 1997 until he retired in March 2001, following 23 years of federal service.

    From October 1997 until he was selected for this position, effective in April 2001, Bosworth served as the regional forester of the Forest Service’s Northern Region, headquartered in Missoula, Mont. He was the regional forester of FS’s Intermountain Region, headquartered in Ogden, Utah, from 1994-97. From 1992-94 he was deputy regional forester of the agency’s Pacific Southwest Region, [then] headquartered in San Francisco. From 1990-92 he was deputy director of the Timber Management Staff at FS headquarters in Washington, DC. He served as forest supervisor of the Wasatch-Cache National Forest, based in Salt Lake City, from 1986-90, after having been assistant director for land management planning at FS’s Northern Region in Missoula from 1983-86.

    Bosworth worked as the planning staff officer and later as deputy forest supervisor of the Flathead National Forest, based in Kalispell, Mont., from 1979-83. From 1976-79 he was a district ranger on the Clearwater National Forest in northern Idaho, following assignments on the [then] Kaniksu National Forest in Idaho, Colville National Forest in Washington, and subsequently the Lolo National Forest in Montana from 1969-76. He began his Forest Service career in 1966 as a forester on the [then] St. Joe National Forest in Avery, Idaho.

    A native of northern California, Bosworth holds a B.S. degree in forestry from the University of Idaho.