Silver City, NM. October 6, 2021. Rob Lever has been named as acting Forest Supervisor on the Gila National Forest beginning October 11, 2021. Lever will serve on the Gila NF for a 120-day detail.

Rob currently serves as the district ranger on the Springerville Ranger District on the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests in eastern Arizona, where he has served since 2018. He began his Forest Service career in 1993 as a wildland firefighter on the Crescent Ranger District of the Deschutes National Forest in Oregon.

Lever was raised in Bend, Oregon and went to college at Linfield College where he earned a BA in Sociology.