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Groeschl taking the reins at IDL |
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January 16, 2018 |
The Idaho State Board of Land Commissioners
voted today to appoint State Forester David
Groeschl as acting director of the Idaho
Department of Lands.
The appointment follows the departure of former
Director Tom Schultz, who left IDL to become
vice president of Government Affairs and
Community Outreach for Idaho Forest Group.
Groeschl has been Idaho State Forester since
2011 and IDL Deputy Director since 2016. He came
to Idaho in 2008 from the State of Montana,
where he led the Forest Management Bureau at the
Montana Department of Natural Resources and
Conservation.
Groeschl earned a bachelor’s degree in forest
management from the University of Wisconsin at
Stevens Point and a master’s degree in Forestry
from Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia.
Groeschl’s broad and extensive forestry
experience over nearly 30 years includes work in
the private, industrial and public forestry
sectors, as well as in three different
geographic regions of the country – the South,
the Great Lakes area and the Intermountain West.
“I appreciate the Land Board’s confidence in me
and the opportunity to continue to serve
Idahoans as IDL acting director,” Groeschl said.
The Land Board directs the IDL in managing
millions of acres of endowment trust lands in
Idaho to provide financial support for Idaho’s
public school system and other State of Idaho
institutions. The IDL also manages the lands
beneath Idaho’s navigable waterways and
administers regulatory and assistance programs
related to mining, oil and gas, forestry, and
fire. The Land Board is comprised of Idaho’s
five top elected officials.
The Land Board also directed IDL to open the
process of soliciting applications for the
director position. |
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