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complex, and influence the entire Klamath River Basin from the headwaters to the mouth of the river, and affect national policy as well as agricultural, industrial, environmental, economic and political interests at the national level.</div><div class="yiv7079801407MsoNormal" style=""> Bingham will oversee conservation programs with local landowners and conservation partners including being actively engaged in the Trinity River restoration program. He will oversee the administration of the Endangered Species Act for the Arcata FWO and direct the Service’s efforts related to the <span style="letter-spacing:.15pt;">implementation of the Northwest Forest Plan in the Six Rivers</span><span style="letter-spacing:.1pt;"> and Mendocino National Forests</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt;">. </span> </div><div style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;">Bingham comes to the Arcata Fish and Wildlife Office from Fort Collins, Colo., where he
was the Chief of the National Park Service's Inventory and Monitoring Division – a program of more than 400 employees monitoring the condition of natural resources in national parks across the country. </div><div>Bingham is no stranger to the conservation challenges of California and issues impacting the Pacific Northwest. He started his career in 1984 with the U.S. Forest Service “Old-growth Research and Development Program” and spent 15 years as a vegetation ecologist with the wildlife habitat interactions research work unit at the Redwood Sciences Laboratory in Arcata. Leaving Arcata in 1999, Bingham took a brief assignment with the U.S. Forest Service Washington Office and then served as a program manager for the interagency monitoring program for the Northwest Forest Plan in Portland, Ore.</div><div style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;">An author of numerous scientific and technical papers on forest ecology, Bingham brings
nearly 30 years of experience in the federal service to his position at the Arcata FWO. Bingham completed his undergraduate work at California State University, Fresno and earned his master’s degree at Humboldt State University with a thesis on redwood forest ecology.</div><div style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;"> </div><div style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;">“It’s great to be back in Arcata working on challenging wildlife conservation issues across the diverse landscapes in this part of California,” said Bingham. “We have a great staff and very capable conservation partners within our community and from the local Tribes. I look forward to our collaboration as we pursue the conservation mission of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.”</div><div style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;"> </div><div style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;">Bingham started as Field Supervisor on November 12,
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