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Mark Rey
Mark Rey, former timber industry lobbyist, is the undersecretary for natural resources and agriculture. He was sworn in as the undersecretary for natural resources and environment by the Agriculture Secretary, Ann M. Veneman on October 2, 2001. His duty is to monitor the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service and Natural Resource Conservation Service.

Education
Mark Rey is from Canton, Ohio. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in wildlife management, a Bachelor of Science degree in forestry, and also a Master of Science degree in natural resource policy and administration, all of his degrees come from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Background
From 1995 to 2001 he served as a staff member with the U.S Senate Committee on Energy Resources. Mark was the committee’s lead staff person for work on the national forest policy and USFS Administration. In this position he was directly involved almost all legislation dealing with the USFS with an important responsibility for several public lands bills. He had a major role on the 1997 version of the National Forest Management Act, which would have gotten rid of citizen oversight and made timber harvest levels mandatory and enforceable, and at the same time making environmental standards unenforceable policies. Rey is also known as the author of the infamous Salvage Rider which suspended all environmental laws and giving logging interests the okay to clear-cut ancient forests in the Pacific Northwest. From 1992 to 1994 as the Vice President of Forest Resources for the American Forest and Paper Association, he pushed for getting rid of the USFS appeals process stating that is was being abused by high-paid special interest litigators or by college pranksters. Early in 1989, he publicly promoted the idea that the Endangered Species Act unfairly restricts business and authored a secret proposal circulated to the first Bush Administration calling for logging quotas in these ancient forests.