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The Business of Government Radio Hour, hosted by Michael J. Keegan, features a conversation with a federal executive who is changing the way government does business. The executives discuss their careers and the management challenges facing their organizations. Guests include administrators, chief financial officers, chief information officers, chief operating officers, commissioners, controllers, directors, and undersecretaries.

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What role does fire play in shaping natural resource land management? How does Interior’s Office of Wildland Fire work to suppress wildland fire? What is being done to reduce the risks to first responders and the public? Join host Michael Keegan as he explores these questions and more with Bryan Rice, Director of the Office of Wildland Fire, Department of the Interior.

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Bryan has broad experience leading Forestry, Wildland Fire, and Tribal programs across DOI, BIA, and USDA. His federal government career has spanned nearly 20 years, beginning with service on the Helena Interagency Hotshot Crew for the USFS in Montana, and then as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Nepal working in both community forestry and rural development. Bryan has supervised numerous timber operations as a timber sale officer on the Yakama Reservation as well as a layout forester on the Tongass National Forest in Alaska. Bryan has also served in leadership capacities internationally in Tanzania, Mexico, Brazil, and Australia for both DOI and USFS. He has served in 2 additional SES natural resources management leadership positions including; the Deputy Bureau Director – Office of Trust Services in the Bureau of Indian Affairs from 2011-2014, and Director of Forest Management in the USDA Forest Service from 2014 – 2016. A citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, he spent his school years in the Midwest in Whitewater, Wisconsin and Peoria, Illinois. Mr. Rice holds a Bachelor of Science – Forestry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne and Master of Business Administration from the University of Alaska – Southeast, focusing on rural development and transportation systems. He is a licensed pilot, and enjoys time outside hunting and fishing

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