October 25, 2009

It gives me great pleasure to announce to the Board that Elena Daly has accepted this critical position for the PLF. She will begin on November 1, the same day I take the reins from George's capable hands.

 

Elena retired in late December from the BLM after many years of excellent service. She began with BLM in 1983 as a cooperative education law student, doing land law adjudication in the Eastern States Office.After partcipating in OPM's Women's Executive Leadership TrainingProgram in 1987 and spending two weeks in California to learn about BLM's western issues, she decided that BLM management in the west was her future.

 

In 1988, she moved to Needles, California as Resources Staff Chief in the Needles Resource Area.While in Needles, she served as Team Lead fpr the Castle Mountain Gold Mine EIS. After 2 1/2 years, she moved to Salem, Oregon as the Clackamas Area Manager. While in Oregon, she did a detail as the Deputy State Director for Operations in the State Office. Her next position was as the Associate State Director for BLM in Idaho, where she spent 6 years.

 

Elena then moved back to DC as the Deputy Assistant Director for Lands and Renewable Resources and in 2002 she became the Director of the National Landscape Conservation System.

 

Elena is a terrific individual and leader. She knows Washington and all of the  leaders of the Conservation Organizations, the BLM's Washington Office and DOI. She will be invaluable to PLF as we move forward.

 

Please welcome her!

 

Henri