Trump touches the former game of the game and fish of Wyoming Nashvik to lead us the American Fish and Wildlife Service – Wyofile

Brian Nashvik, a former Pinedale Game market, which has turned director of Game and Fish, has been nominated by the Trump administration to lead the agency that runs the wildlife of the nation.

The Nesvik nomination to be the US Director of the Fish and Wildlife Service, the position most recently occupied by Joe Biden Martha Williams’ appointments, appeared at Congress.gov on Tuesday. The Wyoming resident, who withdrew from the game and her fish work in the mid -2024, must still be confirmed by the US Senate.

The nomination of the NESVIK is referred to the Committee on the Environment and Public Works of the Senate – and its selection that passes, which is the first step in the confirmation process. Later, the whole Senate will vote for his nomination.

Neshak was also a longtime member of the National Guard of the Wyoming Army to his retirement in 2021.

He rose through the ranks in the game and fish department in Wyoming, withdrawing from his work as the warder in Sublet County to the concert of the supervisory office of the State Agency Cody. He was selected by governor Mark Gordon to direct the game and fish in 2019. Angie Bruce inherited him.

In a speech in his game and retirement of fish, Nesvik said that acquaintance with hunting, fishing and outdoors is one of his best achievements, according to the report in The Powell Tribune.

“I think one of the most important things we do is to provide children with the opportunities to have this experience that we all had at one point that hooked us,” Neshak said in September. “I am extremely proud because I really believe you have 30 years on the road there. We need to have people who care after 30 years. “

If confirmed, Nesvik will continue with a recent tradition of Westerners and residents of Wyoming in the best positions in the US Fish and Wildlife Service.

His predecessor Marta Williams is Montanan. The previous deputy director of the Fish and Wildlife Service, Siva Sundaresan, had previously lived in Jackson and Lander.

Nesvik failed to be reached for an interview immediately.

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