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By Devan Cole, CNN
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will appoint Randy Moore as the new chief of the US Forest Service, making him the first African American to lead the agency once sworn in, Vilsack announced Monday.
Moore, a longtime employee of the Forest Service, will take the agency’s reins just as it braces for the 2021 wildfire season, which officials say could be longer this year due to record-high temperatures in the Southwest and an intensifying drought in the region.
Vilsack said in a statement that Moore, who had been serving as regional forester in the Pacific Southwest Region in California since 2007, “has been a conservation leader on the forefront of climate change, most notably leading the Region’s response to the dramatic increase in catastrophic wildfires in California over the last decade.”
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