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Martha Hahn clips 1 | 2 The Influence of Idaho Watersheds Project on BLM Martha Hahn traces her love for the outdoors to her childhood fishing trips with her grandfather along with summers spent at her grandparents’ high desert California home. She furthered her interest in the natural world by attending Utah State University (USU) where she obtained a bachelor of science degree in forestry and outdoor recreation. Then as a cooperative education student with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), she earned a master of science degree in outdoor recreation behavior, also at USU. Ms. Hahn spent twenty-six years working in the natural resources management field with BLM, NPS, and the Grand Canyon Trust. Her career at BLM included four years as the Colorado associate state director and seven years as Idaho state director. Since leaving the federal government in 2002, Ms. Hahn has operated her own consulting business, The Sage Project, which is dedicated to professional coaching and teaching leadership skills. The implementation of Rangeland Reform in 1995 opened the way for environmental organizations to challenge how the BLM managed livestock grazing. Martha Hahn describes how one such organization, Idaho Watersheds Project, applied legal pressure to the BLM to improve its management of livestock grazing during her tenure as the agency’s Idaho state director. Recorded in August 2004. |
