Bobbi Filbert started in her position as the new district ranger of the Bradshaw and Chino Valley Ranger Districts on Oct. 21.
“We are thrilled to welcome Bobbi to the Prescott National Forest,” Forest Supervisor Sarah Clawson said. “Her background and experience make Bobbi a great fit for the forest resources we manage, the communities we serve and the team we have here on the Prescott National Forest.”
Filbert is from Salmon, Ida., where she served as district ranger for the Salmon-Cobalt and Leadore ranger districts in the Salmon-Challis National Forest. She began her Forest Service career in 1995 as a wildlife technician with the White River National Forest in Minturn, Colo.
“In the beginning it was alpine skiing that brought me to the Forest Service,” Filbert explained, “and I stayed for the love of the mountains and a connection to conservation and the people.”
From 2000 through 2022, Filbert worked at the Sawtooth National Forest in Ketchum, Ida., as a wildlife biologist and then as the forest wildlife program manager. Her last year at Sawtooth was spent as deputy area ranger for the Sawtooth National Recreation Area, based in Stanley, Ida. Throughout her years with the Forest Service, she has taken on details and special assignments including natural resources staff officer for Sawtooth in 2017, deputy area ranger for the Sawtooth National Recreation Area in 2019, and district ranger for the Dillon Ranger District of the White River NF in 2021.
For the past many years, she has also served on incident management teams as a lead public information officer and liaison officer. Filbert received a bachelor’s degree in zoology from UC Santa Barbara and completed graduate work in environmental sciences at UC Santa Cruz. She has two young adult daughters and her husband is a district ranger with the Forest Service in Idaho. In her free time, she enjoys hiking, mountain bike riding, skiing with her family, cooking and going for long walks.
“Throughout my career, the Forest Service has offered me beautiful landscapes to explore and opportunities to engage collaboratively with communities and partners to implement our most important restoration and conservation work,” Filbert said. “I believe that we are stronger, more resilient and go further when we work together. I am grateful to be here on the Bradshaw and Chino Valley Ranger Districts and look forward to engaging with the communities and our numerous forest partners
