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</div><div>By MATTHEW BROWN and GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press</div><div><b>November 9, 2021, </b></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">PORTLAND, Ore. -- Political appointees in the Trump administration relied on faulty science to justify stripping habitat protections for the imperiled northern spotted owl, U.S. wildlife officials said Tuesday as they <b>struck down a rule that would have opened millions of acres of West Coast forest to potential l</b>ogging.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reversed a decision made five days before President Donald Trump left office to drastically shrink so-called critical habitat for the spotted owl. The small, reclusive bird has been in decline for decades as old-growth forests were cut in Oregon, Washington and California.</span></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Government biologists objected to the changes under Trump and warned they would put the spotted owl on a path to extinction</span>, documents show.</div><div>
</div><div><b>But Trump's Interior Secretary David Bernhardt and former Fish and Wildlife Service Director Aurelia Skipwith dismissed those concerns — instead adopting a plan to lift restrictions on more land than even the timber industry had sought</b>.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In documents disclosed to The Associated Press prior to their public release, wildlife officials said Bernhardt and Skipwith underestimated the threat of extinction and relied on a faulty interpretation of the science to reach their decision.</span></div><div>
</div><div>Bernhardt defended his handling of the matter, telling AP in an email that <b>Congress gave the interior secretary authority to exclude areas from protection.</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Bernhardt said the agency’s “reasonable certainty” the owl would go extinct did not match the law’s requirement that habitat be protected lest a species “will” go extinct.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">If wildlife officials want to change that standard, he said, “they should seek a change from Congress.”</span></div><div>
</div><div>“Any future Secretary can weigh the benefit factors differently, but they can not change the law or the legal standard,” he wrote.</div><div>
</div><div><b>Officials twice delayed the changes after President Joe Biden took office and they never went into effect. That puts them among numerous Trump-era policies reversed or struck down by the Interior Department in recent months, on issues from oil and gas drilling on some public lands, to protections for birds from power line and wind turbine collisions.</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Democratic lawmakers from Oregon, Washington and California in February called for an investigation into the removal of spotted owl protections, citing potential scientific meddling by Trump appointees.</span></div><div>
</div><div>Wildlife advocates, government agencies and the timber industry have sparred for decades over the northern spotted owl, which officials said Tuesday is in “precipitous decline” and getting close to disappearing from parts of Washington and Oregon.</div><div>
</div><div>Federal habitat protections imposed in 2012 were meant to avert the bird's extinction. They've also been blamed for a logging slowdown that's devastated some rural communities.</div><div>
</div><div><b>Of 9.6 million protected acres (3.9 million hectares), federal officials proposed in August 2020 to remove protections for about 2%.</b></div><div><b>
</b></div><div><b>The timber industry said the plan didn't go far enough and called for removal of more than 28%</b>. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">On January 7, Skipwith changed her agency's recommendation and went even further, telling Bernhardt more than one-third of the protected land, or 3.5 million acres (1.4 million hectares), should be excluded from protection.</span></div><div>
</div><div>The land has huge swaths of timber and includes 2 million acres (809,000 hectares) spread in a checkerboard pattern across western Oregon.</div><div>
</div><div>Logging those lands might not have immediately killed off the owls immediately — they live up to 20 years on individual territories that can stretch across 10,000 acres (4,000 hectares) —<b> yet eventually they would have gone extinct</b>, said Paul Henson, the wildlife service's Oregon supervisor.</div><div>
</div><div><b>When Henson brought his concerns to superiors last December, Skipwith overrode them.</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“You can’t remove over a third of an endangered species’ habitat and not expect it to go extinct,” Henson said in an interview. “There wasn't much disagreement about the science. The disagreement was how much that risk constrains the secretary's authority" to remove habitat protections.</span></div><div>
</div><div>The logging industry says more thinning and management of protected forests is necessary to prevent wildfires, which devastated 560 square miles (1,450 square kilometers) of spotted owl habitat last fall. Most of that area is no longer considered viable for the birds.</div><div>
</div><div>Timber interests say much of the land set aside under Tuesday's announcement isn't actually spotted owl habitat or is broken up into parcels too small to support the owl. As such, the smaller habitat designation issued under Trump was “legally and scientifically valid,” said Nick Smith, a spokesman for the American Forest Resource Council. The group represents about 100 manufacturing and logging operations in five western U.S. states.</div><div>
</div><div>“The federal government cannot set aside critical habitat unless it is habitat for the species,” Smith said.</div><div>
</div><div>The logging industry says the larger, non-native barred owl is a much greater threat than cutting trees. Skipwith echoed that contention when she said the most effective way to preserve spotted owls was to control barred owl numbers.</div><div>
</div><div>"The main threats faced by the northern spotted owl are the barred owl and the devastating forest fires," Skipwith said, adding that she used sound science to reach her conclusion. "It’s not an issue of acreage; it’s an issue of the management of the land."</div><div>
</div><div>The barred owls, native to the eastern U.S., began affecting spotted owl numbers in Washington and Oregon about a decade ago as they expanded west and south. The incursion accelerated in recent years, putting spotted owls on a downward trajectory that could prompt them to disappear from some areas within ten years, said U.S. Department of Agriculture research biologist Alan Franklin.</div><div>
</div><div><b>Biologists beginning in 2009 studied whether removing barred owls in areas of northern California, Oregon and Washington would help the spotted owl. A pilot program that wrapped up in August showed spotted owl numbers stabilized when barred owl numbers were reduced. They continued to decline in areas without the removals</b>.</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Study authors cautioned that the results show habitat protections also are critical to the spotted owl's survival.</span></div><div>
</div><div>In rejecting the Trump rule, federal officials said the dual threat of wildfires and competition from the barred owl underscore why more forest needs protection — to make sure there's enough “redundancy” of habitat that a large fire won't doom the species.</div><div>
</div><div>A large-scale barred owl removal program is not in place. Wildlife officials said the best science shows protecting older forests — where owls nest, roost and hunt — is crucial.</div><div>
</div><div>Owl expert R. J. Gutiérrez from the University of Minnesota agreed. He said setting aside forest habitat and naming the northern spotted owl as a threatened species in 1990 briefly boosted it before barred owls arrived.</div><div>
</div><div>Until barred owls are dealt with, “all habitat is critical” so spotted owls can find refuge from the aggressive newcomers, said Gutiérrez who has spent several decades studying spotted owls along the West Coast.</div><div>
</div><div>Environmental groups cheered Tuesday's move but expressed frustration that about 200,000 acres (about 81,000 hectares) of previously protected habitat were excluded under a replacement rule signed by Martha Williams, Biden's nominee to lead the Fish and Wildlife Service.</div><div>
</div><div><b>“In the past 20 years, there’s been accelerated loss of old-growth forest on state and private lands </b>so it’s continued to lose habitat,” said Noah Greenwald with the Center for Biological Diversity. Climate change adds to the threats, he said.</div><div>
</div><div><b>In December, federal officials determined that northern spotted owl's continued decline means it merits a more critical listing as “endangered."</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The agency refused to do so immediately, saying other species took priority. That decision is facing a legal challeng</span>e.</div><div>
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</div><div>Brown reported from Billings, Montana.</div><div>
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</div><div><b>International Order of T. Roosevelt </b></div><div>Apr 28, 2022, </div><div>
</div><div>SHARE THIS ARTICLE</div><div>     </div><div>NAPLES, Fla., April 28, 2022<b> /PRNewswire/</b> -- Titans of American Business, today launched the International Order of T. Roosevelt in order to preserve Nature's precious resources through conservation, education, and stewardship in order that future generations may enjoy what the past has entrusted to our generations' care.</div><div>
</div><div>The vision of this <b>501(c)3</b> is to follow the United States' heritage and use ingenuity to ensure a sustainable future for the world's most precious wildlife and their habitats.</div><div>
</div><div>The Foundation has selected Aurelia Skipwith Giacometto as its new CEO. As the 22nd Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, she led the agency of 8,500 employees and managed over 850-million land and water acres for the benefit of the American people. As a sportswoman, lawyer and a biologist, she has the experience and expertise to lead The Order and deliver sustainable solutions to the most pressing wildlife and habitat challenges.</div><div>
</div><div>The Foundation is following in the footsteps of President Teddy Roosevelt who in 1903, established the first national wildlife refuge at Pelican Island to protect pelicans, egrets, and ibises. Known as the father of America's Conservation Movement, President Roosevelt used his authority to preserve our nation's land resources by creating the National Park System and the Forest Service.</div><div>
</div><div>Directors of The Order are committed to continuing President Roosevelt's legacy by contributing their wherewithal to the protection of vulnerable wildlife species and their habitats and to the education of youth and adults on practices designed to promote long-term sustainability. Through the exercise of all rights under the U.S. Constitution, and in partnership with organizations that share their values and priorities, the foundation will make a significant, positive environmental impact for generations to come.</div><div>
</div><div>"I am humbled and excited to be leading this organization that will revolutionize the path toward positively impacting our most precious resources – fish, wildlife, and their habitats," Giacometto commented. "Our success hinges on creating sustainable models aimed at preserving these species and their environmental surroundings. It's an honor to be working with this Board of successful business-minded individuals, who understand that ingenuity is the key to making a true and lasting difference, and that the most important element of environmental stewardship is when all people play a role."</div><div>
</div><div>The Board of Directors include Wesley Bates, John Thodos, Lori Clem, Walter Boomer, Mike Ingram, Patrick Hogan, Bill Shields, Rick Steiner, Warren Sackman, Alan Sackman, Jim Mitchell, Randall Garrett, Dan Genter and Peter Larsen.</div><div>
</div><div>"I am excited about the founding of the International Order of T. Roosevelt and to have Aurelia S. Giacometto at the helm," said President of The Order, Wesley Bates.  "We will accept the challenges to bring back species on the brink of extinction, to educate youth about their heritage and the importance of ensuring that our wildlife and their habitats persist into the future, and we will work across other conservation organizations to strengthen the investment in our wildlife."</div><div>
</div><div>The Order is continuing the tradition of hosting an annual convention, formerly known as the <b>Shikar Safari Club</b> International Foundation's Fundraiser, to raise awareness and support for major preservation projects.</div><div>
</div><div>The inaugural Annual Fundraiser will be held April 27 - 29th, 2023, more details to follow at our website: www.T-Roosevelt.org</div><div>
</div><div>For Press Inquiries Contact:                                                                                                                                    </div><div>Aurelia S. Giacometto CEO, The International Order of T. Roosevelt, Aurelia@T-Roosevelt.org</div><div>
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</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">t</font><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" px="px">he Woman from Monsanto Inside Interior</span><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.4em; letter-spacing: 0.15px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">Former Executive Had Hand in Lifting GMO and Pesticide Bans in Refuges</font></h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); letter-spacing: 0.15px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Washington, DC</span> — A former Monsanto executive serving as a political appointee within the U.S. Department of the Interior used her position to further the agrochemical giant’s agenda promoting the use of bee-harming pesticides, known as neonicotinoids, and genetically modified crops (GMOs), according to filings posted today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). Last August, at the urging of industry, the agency rescinded its ban on the use of neonicotinoid insecticides and GMOs within all National Wildlife Refuges.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); letter-spacing: 0.15px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Weeks later, President Trump announced he was going to nominate Aurelia Skipwith, a former official of the agrochemical company Monsanto, to run the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), the nation’s leading wildlife conservation agency, which manages the National Wildlife Refuge System. For two years she has worked as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish, Wildlife and Parks. Prior to that, she worked in research for six years at Monsanto (now part of Bayer) on new GMO and biotech products. Other jobs in her short career also entailed promoting agrochemical products.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); letter-spacing: 0.15px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>FWS has not had a confirmed Director since Trump took office. </b>Nevertheless, the de facto FWS leader who reported to Ms. Skipwith ordered the ban lifted. The FWS’s 2015 ban was rooted in the biological risks to pollinators and other wildlife on refuges from use of those agrochemical/biotech products. Nearly 60 refuges have agricultural programs, growing various crops as forage for birds and other wildlife.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; letter-spacing: 0.15px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Documents obtained by PEER under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) indicate that Ms. Skipwith was actively engaged during 2017-2018 in the FWS decision to reverse the neonicotinoids and GMOs ban</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. The<b> Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF)</b>, an industry-funded think tank that led the effort on the ban rescission, saw the issue as falling “within Dep. Assistant Secretary Skipwith’s portfolio and stewardship.”</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); letter-spacing: 0.15px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Stewardship had little to do with Ms. Skipwith’s involvement with this issue,” said PEER Senior Counsel Peter Jenkins. “Influence peddling by former industry officials and lobbyists doing favors for their old benefactors appears to be the coin of the realm in today’s Interior Department.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); letter-spacing: 0.15px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>In addition to documents it released, the FWS blacked out more than 300 pages of responsive documents claiming they were “deliberative” under a FOIA exemption. PEER has challenged those redactions arguing that the agency applied the exemption too sweepingly.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); letter-spacing: 0.15px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“To avoid an actual conflict or the appearance of a conflict, Aurelia Skipwith should have recused herself from the agency’s pesticide and GMO policy decisions because of her prior industry work,” Jenkins added, noting that after her nomination as FWS Director did not advance last session, she has not yet been re-nominated in the current session of Congress. “It is late in the day when Monsanto executives are tapped to lead the prestigious agency that once housed Rachel Carson and many other wildlife conservation leaders.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; letter-spacing: 0.15px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">The FWS ban was the byproduct of a series of successful lawsuits brought by PEER and coalition partners blocking approvals for<b> neonicotinoid </b>insecticides and GMOs within National Wildlife Refuges.</font></p><p style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); letter-spacing: 0.15px;"><a href="https://peer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/4_2_19_Documents_linking.pdf" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Look at documents linking Skipwith with GMO ban reversal</font></a></p><p style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); letter-spacing: 0.15px;"><a href="https://peer.org/wildlife-refuges-to-allow-gm-crops-and-neonic-insecticides" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">See the FWS ban reversal</font></a></p><p style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); letter-spacing: 0.15px;"><a href="https://peer.org/court-disapproves-neonic-pesticides-on-wildlife-refuges" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Revisit PEER litigation leading to the ban</font></a></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurelia_Skipwith</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">a<b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">urelia Skipwith</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">is an American</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawyer" title="Lawyer" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">attorney</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, businesswoman, and</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biologist" title="Biologist" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">biologist</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">who served as the director of the</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Fish_and_Wildlife_Service" title="United States Fish and Wildlife Service" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">United States Fish and Wildlife Service</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">from 2019 to 2021. She was</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> confirmed by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Senate</a> as director on December 12, 2019, by a 52–39 vote, and is the first black director of the Fish and Wildlife Service.</span><sup id="cite_ref-Bloomberg_1-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurelia_Skipwith#cite_note-Bloomberg-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup></font></div><div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content mw-content-ltr" lang="en" dir="ltr" style="direction: ltr;"><div class="mw-parser-output" style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Skipwith was born and raised in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indianapolis" title="Indianapolis" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Indianapolis</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana" title="Indiana" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Indiana</a>, the oldest of nine children. Skipwith's family eventually relocated to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbus,Mississippi" title="Columbus, Mississippi" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Columbus, Mississippi</a>. Skipwith's father served in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Navy" title="United States Navy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States Navy</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Reserve" title="United States Army Reserve" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States Army Reserve</a>. Her grandfather was a farmer in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi" title="Mississippi" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Mississippi</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurelia_Skipwith#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Skipwith received a Bachelor of Science degree in biology from </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_University" title="Howard University" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Howard University</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> in 2003, a </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Master of Science in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_genetics" title="Molecular genetics" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">molecular genetics</a> from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purdue_University" title="Purdue University" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Purdue University</a>, and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juris_Doctor" title="Juris Doctor" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Juris Doctor</a> from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Kentucky_College_of_Law" title="University of Kentucky College of Law" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">University of Kentucky College of Law</a>.</span><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurelia_Skipwith#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Career">Career</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Skipwith began her career at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto" title="Monsanto" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Monsanto</a> in 2006 as a lab technician, and worked her way to a<b> sustainable agriculture partnership manager</b></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>.</b></span><sup id="cite_ref-:0_4-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurelia_Skipwith#cite_note-:0-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><b>[</b>4]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Following her work at Monsanto, Skipwith completed law school and had a brief career as a research and legal intern at the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Agriculture(USDA),USA" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), USA" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">United States Department of Agriculture</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-:1_5-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurelia_Skipwith#cite_note-:1-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> She also served as an </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property" title="Intellectual property" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">intellectual property</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> consultant for the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Agency_for_International_Development" title="United States Agency for International Development" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">United States Agency for International Development</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-:1_5-1" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurelia_Skipwith#cite_note-:1-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">For a period of time, Skipwith worked at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alltech" title="Alltech" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Alltech</a>, an organization based in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholasville,Kentucky" title="Nicholasville, Kentucky" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Nicholasville, Kentucky</a> which specializes in animal nutrition and algae production. She later co-founded AVC Global, an<b> agricultural supply <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain_company" class="mw-redirect" title="Blockchain company" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">blockchain company</a></b> in early-2016.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurelia_Skipwith#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a></sup></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">From April 2017 to January 2020, Skipwith served as deputy assistant secretary fish, wildlife and parks of the Department of the Interior.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Skipwith served as the director of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Fish_and_Wildlife_Service" title="United States Fish and Wildlife Service" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">United States Fish and Wildlife Service</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> starting in January 2020. Her appointment was widely supported by conservatives and opposed by environmentalists due to her ties to the pesticide industry and her support of the Trump administration's efforts to roll back environmental protections.</span><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurelia_Skipwith#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Biological_Diversity" title="Center for Biological Diversity" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Center for Biological Diversity</a> stated “Aurelia Skipwith has been working in the Trump administration all along to end protections for billions of migratory birds, gut endangered species safeguards and eviscerate national monuments. Skipwith will always put the interests of her old boss Monsanto and other polluters ahead of America’s wildlife and help the most anti-environmental administration in history do even more damage.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">”</span><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurelia_Skipwith#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Under Skipwith's direction, </span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service generated controversy by not granting Monarch butterflies protection,</b><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurelia_Skipwith#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> requiring entries in the Federal Duck Stamp Contest to include a hunting theme,</span><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurelia_Skipwith#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> weakening rules against the killing of birds by oil and gas companies and others</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,</span><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurelia_Skipwith#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and <b>massively reducing the protected habitat of threatened owls</b>.</span><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurelia_Skipwith#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[12]</a></sup></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">She left office on January 19, 2021.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurelia_Skipwith#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[13]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Personal_life">Personal life</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Skipwith is engaged to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Giacometto" title="Leo Giacometto" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Leo Giacometto</a>, a former member of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montana_Legislature" title="Montana Legislature" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Montana Legislature</a> and chief of staff to former Senator <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad_Burns" title="Conrad Burns" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Conrad Burns</a>. Giacommetto is a co-founder of AVC Global and works as a lobbyist</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> in the agriculture sector.</span><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurelia_Skipwith#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[14]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h2><div class="reflist" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.5em; list-style-type: decimal;"><div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns" style="column-width: 30em; margin-top: 0.3em;"><ol class="references" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-parent 0 list-item 0; list-style-type: inherit;"><li id="cite_note-Bloomberg-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurelia_Skipwith#cite_ref-Bloomberg_1-0" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a></b></span> }<span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFScott2019" class="citation news cs1" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Scott, Dean (December 12, 2019). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://news.bloombergenvironment.com/environment-and-energy/aurelia-skipwith-confirmed-to-run-u-s-fish-and-wildlife-service" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" common="common" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" e54="e54" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">"Aurelia Skipwith Confirmed to Run U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (1)"</a>. <i>news.bloombergenvironment.com</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">HEARING ON THE NOMINATIONS OF AURELIA SKIPWITH ...https://www.congress.gov › chrgPDF</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sep 11, 2019 — Skipwith, Aurelia, nominee to be Director, U.S. Fish and Wildlife ... Whistleblower laws protect the right of federal employees to make ...</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Aurelia Skipwith - Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Aurelia_Skipwith</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Aurelia Skipwith is an American attorney, businesswoman, and biologist who served as the director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service from 2019 ...</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">President: Donald Trump</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">‎Early life and education · ‎Career</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Missing: whistleblower ‎| Must include: whistleblower</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Aurelia Skipwith, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fish, Wildlife ...https://rtfitchauthor.com › 2017/09/19 › aurelia-skipwit...</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sep 19, 2017 — Aurelia Skipwith, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fish, Wildlife and Parks Although the National Horse & Burro Rangeland Management Coalition ...</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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