Western Environmental Law Center: Incoming Chief of U.S. Forest Service Tony Tooke Brings experience, Leadership to Forest Service

Portland, OR—(ENEWSPF)—August 28, 2017. Last week, Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue appointed Tony Tooke, a career U.S. Forest Service employee since the age of 18, to lead the organization as its chief. Susan Jane Brown, wildlands and wildlife program director for the Western Environmental Law Center, issued the following statement in response to the appointment:

“I have worked with new U.S. Forest Service Chief Tooke for years on a wide variety issues, and got to…