SEQUOIA -- Dale Bosworth was appointed the fifteenth Chief of the Forest Service. Dale is a career Forest Service employee with 35 years of service.
     He has been Deputy Regional Forester, Pacific Southwest Region near Fresno, Calif. Bosworth was raised in Northern California where his father worked for the Forest Service.
     He also has a son who is a forester on the Black Hills National Forest. Dale's current assignment in Region 1 is in an area that has been hit with forest health and wildfire problems in recent years.
     With this background and knowledge of western and Midwest forest issues he brings a good understanding of the problems facing him as Chief.