Angela Elam has been named the new Deputy Forest Supervisor of the Gifford Pinchot National Forest. Elam comes to the Gifford Pinchot after serving as the District Ranger of the Payson Ranger District on the Tonto National Forest since June 2011. An Arizona native, Elam has a bachelor’s degree in forest management from Northern Arizona University, and a master’s degree in landscape architecture from the University of Arizona. She began her career as a seasonal firefighter on the Mesa Ranger District of the Tonto National Forest, and has also worked in the White River National Forest in Colorado, the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests in Arizona, the Allegheny National Forest in Pennsylvania, and the Ashley National Forest in Utah.