Lincoln National Forest supervisor promoted

The supervisor for the Lincoln National Forest the past almost two years is moving up. Robert Trujillo has been appointed to the USDA Forest Service's Southwest Region as the deputy director of Ecosystems, Analysis, Planning, Watershed, Soil and Air. Trujillo will report to the position in the regional office in Albuquerque on Monday. Trujillo was appointed the Lincoln National Forest's supervisor in January 2011. The local position at the Lincoln's Alamogordo headquarters will be filled temporarily by Tony Edwards, who currently works in the Office of the Chief in Washington, DC. Edwards is a legislative affairs specialist. He will hold the Lincoln's supervisor's post for 120 days, beginning on Monday. The soon to be acting forest supervisor has been with the Forest Service since 1990, beginning as a student employee on the Coronado National Forest located in southeastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico...more