Jose is currently the Range Resource Assistant on the Gila National Forest at the supervisor’s office located in Silver City, New Mexico. He is a very accomplished individual who recently graduated from Western New Mexico University with a bachelor’s degree in Forest/Wildlife as well as a minor in Geographic Information Systems. Jose has spent quite some time with the agency (USDA Forest Service) starting in 2016 as Forestry Technician and five seasons after that working in fire management on the Silver City Ranger District. Jose is an outdoor enthusiast and enjoys working in the great outdoors and plans to make a career with the Forest Service agency in natural resource management.