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Former Forest Service official claims leadership training lacking

by CHRIS PETERSON
Editor | January 3, 2024 2:00 AM

A career Forest Service employee and former staffer at the Flathead National Forest claims the training afforded those in leadership positions is sorely lacking.

Christine Frisbee recently retired from the Forest Service after working for decades at the agency, including as the Recreation, Heritage, Engineering, Administrative, Lands, Minerals, and Information Systems staff officer position at the Flathead National Forest.

She started her career as a botanist; has been a deputy district ranger, a district ranger on the Deschutes National Forest in Central Oregon and a deputy Forest Supervisor on the Klamath National Forest. She has also worked in the Washington, D.C. offices of the agency as the assistant director, Range.

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