Post by Admin on Oct 8, 2016 13:30:49 GMT -7
Leo Keeler for South Glastonbury Director
Numerous Landowners and Board members have asked me to run for the Board to help make it more responsive to and represent all Landowners, operate more efficiently, and be more transparent when making decisions. I hope to help reduce the frustration of dealing with the Board, by quickly addressing Landowners questions and concerns.
I moved to Emigrant in 2005 after spending 24 years in Alaska serving as Lands and Special Uses Program Manager for the Forest Service where I dealt with attorneys and wrote, interpreted, and applied federal land laws. While managing commercial and private land uses, I learned to guide people with different desires and ideas to reasonable and fair solutions.
I also served as Deputy Forest Supervisor on the Helena National Forest and received a $2,400 award for “significant contributions to the Helena National Forest Land Management Plan” for improving public participation in forest planning, developing a citizen focus group that improved participation in the forest decision-making process, and for my recommendations to modify the Forest budget process to better define and select priorities.
I was President of the Board of Friends of McNeil River for 10 years and succeeded in establishing the 119,000 acre McNeil River Refuge to be managed for grizzly bear viewing.
Former Alaska Governor Tony Knowles recognized my ability to work on controversial public resource issues and appointed me to the Alaska Board of Game and the McGrath Adaptive Management Team assigned to address the most contentious issue in Alaska, wolf management.
My ability to lead in controversial and politically driven issues resulted in my being featured on the CBS Evening News three separate times, and being invited to be one of 40 Founding Fellows of the International League of Conservation Photographers (ILCP) where I helped develop the group’s “Ethical Standards and Principles” guidelines.
I moved to Emigrant in 2005 after spending 24 years in Alaska serving as Lands and Special Uses Program Manager for the Forest Service where I dealt with attorneys and wrote, interpreted, and applied federal land laws. While managing commercial and private land uses, I learned to guide people with different desires and ideas to reasonable and fair solutions.
I also served as Deputy Forest Supervisor on the Helena National Forest and received a $2,400 award for “significant contributions to the Helena National Forest Land Management Plan” for improving public participation in forest planning, developing a citizen focus group that improved participation in the forest decision-making process, and for my recommendations to modify the Forest budget process to better define and select priorities.
I was President of the Board of Friends of McNeil River for 10 years and succeeded in establishing the 119,000 acre McNeil River Refuge to be managed for grizzly bear viewing.
Former Alaska Governor Tony Knowles recognized my ability to work on controversial public resource issues and appointed me to the Alaska Board of Game and the McGrath Adaptive Management Team assigned to address the most contentious issue in Alaska, wolf management.
My ability to lead in controversial and politically driven issues resulted in my being featured on the CBS Evening News three separate times, and being invited to be one of 40 Founding Fellows of the International League of Conservation Photographers (ILCP) where I helped develop the group’s “Ethical Standards and Principles” guidelines.