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Show WisleyToBe BLM Director Sarah E. (Sally) Wisely has been named the Director of the Utah State Office" of the Bureau of Land Management, BLM Acting Director Tom Fry announced today. Wisely, a 22-year veteran of the BLM who is currently serving as Acting State Director in Alaska, will succeed Bill Lamb as the agency's Director in Utah. "With more than two decades of experience at the BLM, Sally Wisely brings hands-on knowledge and a can-dp attitude to her new position in Utah," Fry said. "Utahns will find in Sally someone who understands public land issues and places a premium on good working relationships with all who use or care about the public lands." "I look forward to the challenges of this new position," said Wisely. "Utah has such incredible resources and people, it's an honor to be able to work with them." The BLM manages 22.9 million acres of public land in Utah, which amounts to more than 40 percent of the state's land base. As BLM's Acting State Director, Direc-tor, and prior to that the Associate State Director in Alaska from 1994, Wisely oversaw all aspects of the Bureau's operations in Alaska, where the BLM manages more than 87 million acres of public land. Wisely's responsibilities in Alaska included the management of 700 permanent employees and the administration ad-ministration of a budget of more than $60 million. Wisely also oversaw all of the BLM's commodity- and recreation-related programs in Alaska, plus three programs unique to the state: the Trans-. Alaska Pipeline System, the conveyance con-veyance of Federal land to the State of Alaska and Alaska natives, and the allocation of subsistence resources. re-sources. With the exception of her Alaska tenure, all of Wisely's career has been in the Southwest. Wisely worked as an Area Manager Man-ager in southwest Colorado and was active in many Four Corners issues and events. She oversaw the opening open-ing and operation of the Anasazi Heritage Center, and helped initiate the Four Corners Governors Conference Con-ference and Four Corners Heritage Council. She worked closely with her regional re-gional counterparts on shared is- sues, such as cultural resource management, man-agement, oil and gas development, and recreation. Prior to that, she served in New Mexico as Chief of Public Affairs, as a Public Affairs Specialist, and as a Recreation Planner. Before joining the BLM in 1977, Wisely taught at the elementary, ele-mentary, high school, and college levels, including teaching at Rough Rock Demonstration School on the Navajo reservation in north eastern Arizona. Wisely, a native of Atchison, Kansas, earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in communication and education educa-tion from Kansas State University. She received a Master of Arts degree in Outdoor Recreational Planning from the University of New Mexico, Mex-ico, where she graduated with honors. hon-ors. Wisely enjoys cross-country skiing, running, rafting, backpacking, backpack-ing, tennis, writing, and music. The BLM, an agency of the U.S. Department of the Interior, manages more land 264 million surface acres than any other Federal Fed-eral agency. Most of this public (See BLM on page 4-A) BLM From page 3-A land is located in 12 Western states, including Alaska. The Bureau also administers more than 560 million acres of sub-surface mineral estate throughout the nation. The BLM, which has an annual budget of more than $1.2 billion, carries out its land-management mission with a workforce of about 9,000 employees. |