New supervisor named for Gila National Forest

Southwestern New Mexico's Gila National Forest has a new supervisor, Kelly Russell. Her appointment was announced Wednesday by Regional Forester Corbin Newman. Russell begins her new job on Monday. She is 25-year veteran of the U.S. Forest Service who has worked in Alabama, South Carolina, Georgia, Oklahoma and California. Russell currently is deputy forest supervisor on the Klamath National Forest in northern California. Before that, she was Oklahoma district ranger on the Ouachita National Forest in Oklahoma. She received a degree in biology from Wesleyan College in Macon, Ga., and attended graduate school in fisheries at Auburn University in Alabama. The Alabama native served two years in the Peace Corps in Sierra Leone, West Africa. AP