Cohn new deputy Alaska director for BLM

Steve Cohn has been named deputy state director for resources for the Bureau of Land Management in Alaska. BLM said in a June 4 press release that Cohn arrived in Alaska May 30. He was previously in the BLM Washington, D.C., office, where he was division chief of the National Landscape Conservation System.

Cohn began his career with BLM in 2001 as a presidential management fellow in the NLCS office in Washington, D.C., and has served in field assignments in Arizona and Oregon/Washington.

As director for resources Cohn will oversee the planning, renewable resources and energy and minerals branches and will be responsible for projects including land use planning decisions, recreation and resource development, oil and gas resource development and environmental cleanup projects on public lands.

Cohn has a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and a doctorate in wildland resource science from the University of California at Berkeley. He was selected as a Fulbright Scholar to Canada and researched First Nation land claims treaties and resource issues in the Yukon Territories.

—Petroleum News