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Ketchikan Daily News
Wednesday, October 01, 2003
Kanen accepts job in Washington, D.C.
KETCHIKAN (KDN) — Dale Kanen, U.S. Forest Service district ranger for Craig, has been selected to oversee the agency’s national Office of Tribal Relations in Washington, D.C.
Kanen has served in his
present job for eight years in Craig. The
Craig District is one of
10 ranger districts on the 16.8 million-acre Tongass National Forest.
The Craig district encompasses 1 million acres, including 250,000 acres
of land owned by seven different Native corporations, according to the
Forest Service.
Kanen will report to his new job early next year.
Kanen began his Forest Service career after graduating with honors from
the University of Maryland College of Engineering in 1974.
He designed and built roads and trails on the Chugach and Tongass
National Forests from 1974 to 1978. He designed fish enhancement
projects in Alaska from 1978 to 1992, according to the agency. Kanen
also served as the Federal Subsistence Program manager from 1992 to
1995. He became district ranger in 1995.
Kanen was born near Glacier Bay. He is Tlingit from the Dog Salmon Clan
and has many relatives in Southeast Alaska, according to the Forest
Service.