[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 4]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 4939]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        TRIBUTE TO MR. ED WENGER

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                            HON. MARK GREEN

                              of wisconsin

                    in the house of representatives

                       Wednesday, April 17, 2002

  Mr. GREEN of Wisconsin. Mr. Speaker, I offer the following comments 
today to mark the retirement of Mr. Ed Wenger. After nearly 30 years of 
service, Ed retired from the U.S. Forest Service last year.
  After a stint in the Army, he began his distinguished career with the 
Forest Service at the Hoosier National Forest in Indiana. Since then, 
he's served in forests from Illinois to Pennsylvania, and a couple of 
places in between.
  But it's Ed's time in Wisconsin that left such a lasting impression 
on me and lots of other folks in my area. He was instrumental in 
developing the Florence Natural Resource Center while serving as the 
Florence District Ranger for the Nicolet Forest. And he did tremendous 
work while at the Nicolet-Chequamegon National Forest from 1997 to 
2001.
  Wherever he was stationed, Ed quickly became an active and well-known 
member of the community--both in forest issues and in the general 
activities and organizations that make our towns and villages such 
great places to live. I believe that future generations of Forest 
Service employees could stand to learn much from Ed, and his dedication 
to maintaining such close ties between the management of our forests 
and the communities that surround them.

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