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Doug Barber Economics of Public Lands Ranching Doug Barber grew up in northern California, and began his higher education at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis. After a year at the academy he changed his career study to civil engineering and transferred to the University of California at Davis where he received his BS degree in 1974. Upon graduation, Mr. Barber joined the US Forest Service building roads on the Sierra National Forest (California). Subsequently, he transferred to Juneau, Alaska, where he served as district engineer, later being promoted to regional facilities engineer. Mr. Barber received his MS degree in engineering and science management from the University of Alaska at Juneau in 1979. Within the Forest Service he went on to hold positions as district ranger (1981–1983) on the Wasatch-Cache National Forest (Utah), and as deputy forest supervisor (1989–1994) of the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest (Arizona). He served as assistant regional engineer in the Southwestern Region Office (Albuquerque, NM) from 1994 until taking early retirement in 1995. Since then he has worked as a Naval base management contractor and completed five-and-a-half years of active duty in the Navy Reserve as a captain in Korea, Alaska, New Mexico, and Washington, DC. Doug Barber explains the background of the $100,000 expense to taxpayers that resulted from fencing cattle out of an Arizona stream inhabitat by the endangered Apache trout. He also recounts the letter he wrote in 1998 to Pete Domenici (US senator from New Mexico) in which Barber criticized the decision to authorize this expenditure instead of permanently removing cattle from the region. Recorded in June 2004. |
