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• Author: Pounds, Nancy
• Position: Right Moves - Carl Rountree appointed as system director to United States. Bureau of Land Management. National Petroleum Reserve- Alaska - Public Lands Foundation honored Ramona Chin - McKie Campbell appointed as staff director of committee of Senate - Brief article

Carl Rountree was appointed the Bureau of Land Management's National Landscape Conservation System director. The system consists of 866 areas comprising nearly 27 million acres in 11 Western states, plus Alaska and Florida. Rountree, a 30-year natural resources federal employee, most recently worked for BLM in Washington, D.C.

The Public Lands Foundation honored Ramona Chin, BLM's deputy state director for Alaska lands, with the Outstanding Public Lands Professional Manager Award for 2008 for 20 years of work on the Alaska Land Transfer program, turning over more than 150 million acres of federal public land--about 42 percent of the land area in Alaska--to State and private ownership under the Alaska Statehood Act, the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act and the Native Allotment Act of 1906.

U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, appointed Alaskans McKie Campbell as Republican staff director for the committee. He served as Alaska Department of Fish and...