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Renee Galeano-Popp clips 1 | 2 Forest Service Politics Renee Galeano-Popp began working short-term jobs with the US Forest Service while still an undergraduate at Northern Arizona University (NAU). Upon her graduation with a BS degree in botany from NAU in 1978 she commenced what would become a twenty-year career with the US Forest Service—a career that included roles, both as technician and professional, with wide experience in timber and range. In her professional capacity she held positions that included range conservationist, regional botanist, and manager of the Wildlife, Fish, and Rare Plants Program on the Lincoln National Forest, New Mexico. Ms. Galeano-Popp resigned from the Forest Service in April 1998 following a six-month-long dispute over the evaluation of grazing allotments containing federally listed species. Since leaving the Forest Service she has worked as a consult on energy-related projects, and has done land management planning for the BLM. Renee Galeano-Popp talks about the politics affecting efforts by the US Forest Service and the US Fish and Wildlife Service to protect the endangered Sacramento prickly poppy and the threatened Sacramento Mountains thistle, both negatively impacted by livestock grazing on the Lincoln National Forest. Recorded in August 2004. |
