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Is Conservation An Endangered Species?

Posted by: Brenda Meyer

11 November 2005 - 9:00am

Most experienced environmental professionals will be retiring in the next decade, and research shows that young people are reluctant to work in conservation related fields.

"Some estimates indicate that as many as 60 percent of the most senior federal employees are eligible to retire in 2007. Many of those are in conservation and natural resource fields. Over one-half of the senior executives at the Department of the Interior, USDA Forest Service and Environmental Protection Agency will retire by 2007.

Within that same period, the Department of Interior will lose 61 percent of its program managers, the Forest Service will lose 81 percent of its entomologists and 49 percent of its foresters, and the EPA will lose 45 percent of its toxicologists and around 30 percent of its environmental specialists."

Full Story: Marking the end of conservation?
Source: San Diego Union Tribune, November 8, 2005
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