Randy Moore is the regional forester of the Forest Service’s Eastern Region, headquartered in Milwaukee.

From August 1996 until his selection to this position Moore served as the forest supervisor of the Mark Twain National Forest, based in Rolla, Mo., after having been its deputy forest supervisor from 1994-96.

Moore began his USDA career as a soil scientist with the Natural Resources Conservation Service in Dickinson, N.D., in 1978, and then became a soil scientist with the Forest Service in Pueblo, Colo., in 1980.

Bob Jacobs, the previous regional forester of FS’s Eastern Region, is now the regional forester of FS’s Southern Region, headquartered in Atlanta.•