Linda Goodman is the regional forester of the Forest Service’s Pacific Northwest Region, headquartered in Portland, Ore.

From July 2002 until her selection to this position Goodman served as the acting regional forester of the Pacific Northwest Region, after having been its deputy regional forester since August 1999. During that period of time, from Oct. 2001 to June 2002 she also served as acting chief of staff for the Forest Service at its headquarters office in Washington, DC.

From 1995-99 Goodman was the first director of the 18 Forest Service Job Corps Centers that were [then] newly centralized in Denver, Colo. She began her career with the agency as a clerk-typist, based in Quinault, Wash., on the Olympic National Forest, in 1974.

Harv Forsgren, the previous regional forester of FS’s Pacific Northwest Region, is now the regional forester of FS’s Southwest Region, headquartered in Albuquerque. •