Oregon’s Board of Forestry met on April 23, in Salem, and began discussions about the process of recruiting a new state forester as well as desired attributes for candidates.
Board members agreed that the search should be conducted in a way that kept candidates’ names private until the final stages to encourage a wider pool of applicants and will adopt a formal recruitment process at a meeting in the coming weeks.
The search for a new state forester to lead the Oregon Department of Forestry comes following the resignation of Cal Mukumoto from the position in January…