Hello, my name is Barnie Gyant.
I'm a deputy regional forester located in the Pacific Southwest Region of the Forest
Service, also known as Region 5.
The Forest Service is a diverse organization of over 30,000 people, responsible for managing
193 million acres of public land spread across the United States from Puerto Rico to Alaska.
The lands we manage are incredibly diverse, from the rainforests in the Pacific Northwest,
to the arid southwest, to the tallgrass prairies.
Our jobs are as diverse as the landscapes we manage, but every one of them contributes
to fulfilling the mission of the Forest Service.
Many of us have wondered how we fit into the Forest Service, and how our jobs contribute
to the agency mission.
Lets meet a few of the fantastic men and women who work very hard in support of this mission.
My name is Richard Gonzalez, and I manage for healthy sustainable forests, and to keep
forested lands forested.
My name is Tonya Wilkinson.
I work at the Albuquerque Service Center budget and finance offices.
I supervise a team of budget analysts that serve as liaisons to our budget partners across
all regions, stations and areas.
My name is Mike Mascarenas.
My duties include patrolling national forest lands, investigating any resource damage,
protecting the public, employees, and natural resources.
My name is Erwin Chambliss and I help people identify invasive plants in the southeastern
United States.
I'm Danelle D. Harrison, and I'm responsible for the management of 560,000 acres of national
forest system lands.
I do this in collaboration with partners and stakeholders, as well as other Forest Service
employees.
I am Ivan Gonzales.
I support the Forest Service in its communications efforts through network, computers and telecoms,
and radios.
I'm Susan Alden-Weingart and I have an awesome job.
I get the great pleasure of working with all kinds of people across communities and landscapes
to introduce our young people to the great outdoors.
My name is Linda Joyce, and I work at the Rocky Mountain Research Station in Fort Collins
Colorado.
And my research focuses on quantifying the effects of climate change on ecosystems and
natural resources.
The Forest Service employs thousands of people who work behind the scenes, as well as directly
implementing projects in the field.
Our connections are much deeper than what we see at the surface.
Each of us contributes in our own way to sustaining our nations' forests and grasslands, delivering
benefits to the public, helping the global natural resource community make better management
decisions, and making the Forest Service a high-performing agency.
It takes all of us, and all of our jobs, for the Forest Service to succeed in its mission.
I am the forest silviculturist for the Kaibab and Coconino National Forest.
I sustain our nation's forests and grasslands.
I am the Forest Service.
I am a supervisory budget analyst, and I help ensure the Forest Service ability to manage
its funding.
And by ensuring that, I also ensure that critical personnel on the ground delivering the programs
have the financial ability to do so.
I am the Forest Service.
I am a law enforcement officer on the Cibola National Forest.
The benefits I provide to the public, is that I connect them to the outdoors.
I am the Forest Service.
I'm an invasive plants specialist with the Southern Research Station, and my work helps
sustain our nation's forests and grasslands.
I am the Forest Service.
I am a district ranger for the Williams and Tusayan ranger districts on the Kaibab National
Forest.
It is my pleasure to promote not only an inclusive culture, but recruit a diverse workforce,
which ultimately helps us excel as a high-performing agency.
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I'm a service area technician with the Chief Information Office.
My work directly supports the transfer of technology and application.
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I am the partnership liaison for the Rocky Mountain Region of the US Forest Service.
I deliver benefits to the public by connecting people to the great outdoors.
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I am a research ecologist, and my research helps sustain our nation's forests and grasslands.
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I am an information technology specialist, I'm an initial tack dispatcher,
I am the chief of staff and assistant director for the Forest Service Job Corps program,
I am a general engineer for with the Forest Operations Research unit in Auburn Alabama.
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