Michele Andersen Email & Phone Number

Boise, Id, Us

Coeur D'Alene, Idaho, United States

Plans, directs, oversees, and coordinates field operations at area field offices where programs including fire suppression, timber, range, minerals, public trust, private forestry, forest practices, and more are delivered. Member of the Department's executive leadership team and assists the Director, Deputy Director, and other Division Administrators with strategic planning, budget priorities, and overall Department program planning, priorities and direction. Responsible for directing, committing, coordinating, and acquiring external and internal resources to achieve performance measurements critical to the State Board of Land Commissioners and the State Endowment Fund. Results are achieved through two (2) Regional Operations Chiefs, ten (10) Area Managers, and approximately 200 additional staff.

Coeur D'Alene, Id

Provides guidance to Program Managers and Area staff on practices and interpretation of laws and department policies to ensure consistency and compliance across the state. Evaluates and reports program effectiveness and efficiency. Identifies program deficiencies and initiates actions for improvement. Develop, monitor and manage bureau budgets ($1.4 million); determine and monitor area allocations to meet strategic plan. Recommends law and rule changes to executive management. Identifies and communicates emerging issues related to statewide programs to operations, other bureaus, executive staff and legal counsel. Manage the Agency’s GIS, threatened and endangered species, land records, fish biologist, hydrologist, geotechnical specialist, and remote sensing/UAS programs and staff across two state offices (CDA & BOI) with statewide responsibility. Lead an interdisciplinary group in development of IDL Road Standards. Technical advisor to Idaho Forest Practices Act Advisory Council.

Coeur D'Alene, Id

• Manage and monitor workloads and project tasks done by the Interdisciplinary Team (ID Team) specialists; • Supervise ID Team specialists; • Provide oversight and direction in developing projects, training sessions, printed educational materials, and public-relations announcements regarding interdisciplinary specialist work; • Develop a clear and effective system for communicating ID Team project progress to IDL customers; • Act as a liaison between the interdisciplinary specialists and their multiple IDL customers (bureaus, programs, supervisory areas, executive staff, etc.); • Monitor ID Team program budgets; • Understand and keep apprised of laws, administrative rules, court opinions, emerging issues, and IDL policy associated with forest or rangeland management, related to any of the interdisciplinary specialties.

Sandpoint, Id

Regulation and enforcement of the Idaho Lake Protection Act for the Pend Oreille Supervisory Area

Sandpoint, Id

Manage projects for tribal and state governments and the hydropower industry. Conservation planning and ecosystem services assessment. Restoration project planning, implementation and monitoring. Proposal and report writing and editing, group facilitation and organizational planning.

Usk, Wa

Restoration project management. Coordinate and implement fish habitat restoration projects. Non-native fish barrier construction. Manage large and complex spatial and non-spatial relational databases. Plan, develop and submit grant proposals, scopes of work and execute contracts. Interview, hire, train and supervise permanent and seasonal staff.

Usk, Wa

Provide technical and policy oversight in water resources issues. Develop management plans and objectives, procure funding and oversee water quality monitoring projects. Review and comment on Environmental Impact Statements, TMDL’s, 303(d)/305(b) reports and Management Plans. Participate in watershed advisory groups with the development of TMDL’s and TMDL Implementation Plans. Work and cooperate with state, county, federal, tribal, and foreign governments as a Tribal representative regarding water quality issues in the Upper Columbia Basin.

Idaho Panhandle

Conducted basin wide analysis including geomorphological assessments, landtype hazard analysis, road inventories, stream and fish habitat surveys. Fish population sampling. Contract inspector on road obliteration and decommissioning projects.