{"id":5503,"date":"2019-09-22T07:49:52","date_gmt":"2019-09-22T14:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=5503"},"modified":"2025-04-26T16:31:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T22:31:21","slug":"welcome-katie-wood-new-emmett-district-ranger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=5503","title":{"rendered":"Katie Wood, new Emmett District Ranger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/dr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5504\" src=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/dr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"555\" height=\"102\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/dr.jpg 555w, https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/dr-300x55.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 555px) 100vw, 555px\" \/><\/a>Boise, Idaho, September 16, 2019\u2014The Boise National Forest welcomes Katie Wood, as the new District Ranger in Emmett.<\/p>\n<p>Katie served as the Boise District, Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Support Services and Operations Chief since February 2017. She has overseen a wide diversity of areas including: emergency stabilization and rehabilitation, engineering, heavy equipment, GIS, administration and noxious and invasive weeds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI look forward to working in cooperation with the public while serving in this role. My goal is to ensure the Emmett Ranger District is managed in a way that takes into account the needs of current users without losing sight that future generations will need, and rely on, public lands as much as we do. This is particularly relevant given the Emmett Ranger District\u2019s proximity to Idaho\u2019s largest population center and the mixed uses which occur on this land.\u201d Said Katie Wood, Emmett District Ranger.<\/p>\n<p>Her tenure as Challis-Yankee Fork District Ranger (Salmon-Challis National Forest) provided her critical experience in managing challenging natural resource issues including: threatened and endangered species, forest and rangeland management, restoration, recreation, and special uses.<\/p>\n<p>Katie has completed a variety of details over the past 10 years including Assistant Field Manager, Planning and Environmental Coordinator, Forest Headwaters Reserve Manager, and Disaster Program Specialist for the United States Forest Service in Washington D.C.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Katie-Wood.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5506\" src=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Katie-Wood.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"544\" height=\"726\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Katie-Wood.jpg 544w, https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Katie-Wood-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 544px) 100vw, 544px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Emmett-District-Ranger.pdf\">Emmett District Ranger<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Katherine.wood@usda.gov\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 208-365-7000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boise, Idaho, September 16, 2019\u2014The Boise National Forest welcomes Katie Wood, as the new District Ranger in Emmett. Katie served as the Boise District, Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Support Services and Operations Chief since February 2017. She has overseen a wide diversity of areas including: emergency stabilization and rehabilitation, engineering, heavy equipment, GIS, administration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-campfire","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5503"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5521,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5503\/revisions\/5521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}