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SOLVANG, Calif.— U.S. Forest Service officials announced the selection of Jeanne Dawson as the new Deputy Forest Supervisor for Los Padres National Forest. Dawson succeeds Chris Stubbs, who last June was named Los Padres Forest Supervisor.
Dawson previously served in the Forest Service’s Northern Region on the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest as the Range, Recreation, Partnerships and Lands Staff Officer and Resource Advisory Committees Coordinator. She has also worked in the Southwest Region on the Santa Fe National Forest as the Forestry Program Manager and on the Cibola National Forest and National Grasslands as a zoned Timber Management Assistant and District Forester. Through these positions, she gained experience in working with collaborative groups of different sizes and backgrounds to find consensus in designing and implementing large, landscape-scale restoration projects to benefit wildlife, watersheds, local communities, public land users, and ecological resiliency to wildfire, insects and disease.