The U.S. Forest Service's new deputy supervisor for the Dakota Prairie Grasslands says he's glad to be back in the Dakotas.
John Kinney is graduate of Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota, and says he has family spread throughout both Dakotas.
Kinney most recently worked at the Helena and Lewis and Clark National Forests in Montana. He also has worked for the Forest Service in Idaho, Kentucky and South Dakota.
He's been named the deputy grasslands supervisor for the Dakota Prairie Grasslands, which manages the Little Missouri, Sheyenne, Grand River and Cedar River grasslands in the Dakotas.