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Archive Home > 2009 > May > 07 > Obama’s choice for Forest Service’s top post breaks long-held tradition

Obama’s choice for Forest Service’s top post breaks long-held tradition

By Jeff Barnard / The Bulletin
May 7, 2009

GRANTS PASS — The Obama administration’s pick to be the new agriculture undersecretary in charge of the U.S. Forest Service breaks a long-standing idea that the candidate have a background in forest policy.

Homer Lee Wilkes, the Mississippi state conservationist, was named....

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