{"id":8040,"date":"2018-05-10T21:52:01","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T02:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/?p=8040"},"modified":"2019-05-18T08:09:52","modified_gmt":"2019-05-18T13:09:52","slug":"vicki-christiansen-appointed-interim-chief-of-u-s-forest-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/vicki-christiansen-appointed-interim-chief-of-u-s-forest-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Vicki Christiansen appointed Interim Chief of U.S. Forest Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>By Partnership for the National Trails System<br \/>\n<\/b><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Adapted from USFS social media and March 9, 2018 AP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/female-firefighter-to-lead-forest-service-after-former-head-leaves-amid-misconduct-claims\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8041\" style=\"width: 288px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/usfs_vicki_christiansen_headshot.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8041\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8041\" src=\"http:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/usfs_vicki_christiansen_headshot-278x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"278\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/usfs_vicki_christiansen_headshot-278x300.jpg 278w, https:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/usfs_vicki_christiansen_headshot-300x324.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/usfs_vicki_christiansen_headshot-139x150.jpg 139w, https:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/usfs_vicki_christiansen_headshot.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 278px) 100vw, 278px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-8041\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vicki Christiansen<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The U.S. Forest Service (USFS) has recently experienced a change in leadership in the agency. The 18th Chief, Tony Tooke, announced his retirement on March 7, 2018, and Vicki Christiansen has been appointed Interim Chief. According to a USFS Facebook post, \u201cChristiansen was previously the Deputy Chief of State and Private Forestry in the agency and brings with her the experience of a long career in forestry, natural resources, and fire leadership positions.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Associated Press reported that Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said Christiansen is tasked with \u201cimproving the agency\u2019s response to sexual misconduct while effectively managing more than 300,000 square miles of forests and grasslands in 43 States and Puerto Rico.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>USFS statement on \u201cPBS NewsHour\u201d article: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fs.fed.us\/sites\/default\/files\/jiron_pbs_statement.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.fs.fed.us\/sites\/default\/files\/jiron_pbs_statement.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Christiansen&#8217;s \u201cLeadership Corner&#8221; video and blog post: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fs.fed.us\/blogs\/standing-one-another\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.fs.fed.us\/blogs\/standing-one-another<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Unless otherwise indicated, all material in Pathways Across America is public domain. All views expressed herein are perspectives of individuals working on behalf of the National Trails System and do not necessarily represent the viewpoint of the Federal agencies.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Partnership for the National Trails System Adapted from USFS social media and March 9, 2018 AP article The U.S. Forest Service (USFS) has recently experienced a change in leadership in the agency. The 18th Chief, Tony Tooke, announced his retirement on March 7, 2018,&hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"button right\"><a class=\"button more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/vicki-christiansen-appointed-interim-chief-of-u-s-forest-service\/\">more &raquo;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":742,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[356,172,355,247,457],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8040"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/742"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}