Dave Schmid
Other Forest Service
Greetings from the Great Land! I’m Dave Schmid and I’m the Regional Forester for the Alaska Region of the U.S. Forest Service. We steward the nation’s two largest national forests — the Tongass National Forest in southeast Alaska, and the Chugach National Forest in southcentral Alaska. These two, vast public lands cover more than 24-million acres, an area about the size of the state of Kentucky! It’s an environment where the forests meet the ocean – our national forests provide homes for humpback whales, brown bears, bald eagles, salmon – and diverse, natural resource dependent-communities.
I graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point with a degree in forest management, and I’ve worked for the Forest Service for more than 30 years. I’ve lived and worked in Minnesota, Alaska, Montana, Washington DC, and Georgia – and wherever I’ve been, I’ve been a passionate advocate for helping Americans connect with THEIR treasured public lands. In my free time, I love to hunt, fish, and explore new places and new cultures with my family.
