Brenda Halter
Retiring Forest Supervisor Brenda Halter has a long and varied career to reflect back upon.
She began her natural resource career working for the Beltrami Soil and Water Conservation District and then went on to a 22-year career with the U.S. Forest Service working as a hydrologist, National Environmental Policy Act specialist, land management planner, and forest supervisor. Along the way she worked in Minnesota, Utah and Washington, D.C. before finally returning to her home state of Minnesota as supervisor of the Superior National Forest the past four years.
“In a series of wonderful experiences and great jobs, the job of forest supervisor in a place as special as the Superior National Forest is the greatest job of all,” she said.
During the past four years Halter dealt with many challenges including large land exchanges, mining proposals, controversy over management of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and several wildfires. Through it all she stated that her goal was to address emerging issues while making sure that the Superior National Forest continued to deliver the full range of goods and services that the public expects and deserves from national forests including quality recreation opportunities, timber production, watershed restoration and fish and wildlife habitat improvement.
Halter says that she feels incredibly grateful to the U.S. Forest Service for giving her the opportunity to contribute to natural resource conservation and public land management in such meaningful ways. Says Halter: “It has been a great career in service to something that grows more essential every day and I encourage young people from all walks of life to consider the Forest Service as a career.”
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