Beth Ihle Named Grasslands Supervisor
 | Author:
Nancy Marks
Nancy Marks: MT43 News Secretary and News Editor |
Beth Ihle Named Grasslands Supervisor Nancy Marks Beth Ihle was recently announced as the Grasslands Supervisor of the Dakota Prairie Grasslands unit in Forest Service Region 1. Her new assignment will take her to Bismarck North Dakota starting in February. Beth’s most recent assignment has been as the Deputy Forest Supervisor on the Santa Fe National Forest in New Mexico. She served as a District Ranger in Silver City, New Mexico on the Gila National Forest for three years working toward cooperative rangeland management relationships with livestock grazers, conducting prescribed burns, and helping to jumpstart a community-based collaborative.
Beth spent many years working for the Helena and Lewis and Clark National Forests out of the Townsend Ranger District office in various capacities while she and her former spouse, Kevin McDonnell, raised their four children. Beth was one of the first women members of the Townsend Rotary Club. During her time in Townsend, she organized the building of the Heritage Park Pavilion and helped fundraise for many other Rotary projects in Townsend.
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