Jack Troyer is the regional forester of the Forest Service’s Intermountain Region, headquartered in Ogden, Utah.

From December 2001 until his selection to this position Troyer served as acting regional forester of the Intermountain Region, after having been its deputy regional forester since March 1997. From 1991-1997 he was the forest supervisor of the Chequamegon and Nicolet National Forests, based in Park Falls, Wis.

Troyer began his career with the Forest Service as a hydrologist on the Plumas National Forest in Quincy, Calif. in 1969, and then worked as an FS district ranger in Colorado from 1977-86.

Jack Blackwell, the previous regional forester of FS’s Intermountain Region, is now the regional forester of FS’s Pacific Southwest Region, headquartered in Vallejo, Calif.•