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New manager ready for a challenge
Sue Fry to take over local Bureau of Reclamation office
By LEE JUILLERAT
H&N Regional Editor
January 11, 2009
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When Sue Fry heard
there was an opening for the job as manager of the
Bureau of Reclamation’s Klamath Falls office, she jumped
at the chance.
And, wh enshe takes over in early February, Fry jump into a high-pressure job that will test her skills in working with a broad cross-section of irrigators, environmentalists, tribes and federal agencies.
Fry said she’s looking forward to the challenge.
“I’ve worked up in the Basin before. I know the folks in the (Bureau) office,” she said in a telephone interview from Sacramento, where she’s wrapping up duties an environmental officer for the Bureau’s Mid-Pacific Region office. “I thought, ‘What a great next step for me and what a great challenge to do some good for the Basin.’ ”
Klamath Project
Fry will oversee programs on the Klamath Reclamation Project. Although she officially takes over Jan. 18, it will be Feb. 9 before she actually arrives.
Her familiarity with Klamath Basin issues goes back several years, when she was involved in discussions that led to the proposed Klamath Basin Restoration Agreement.
She believes the agreement will be among the major issues she faces, and thinks her background with the federal Endangered Species Act will prove helpful.
“I think it’s a huge opportunity for all of us,” she said.
Fry sees the biological opinion, which helps
determine how water is allocated, as another key issue.
She envisions working with various regulatory
agencies, such as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, which includes the National Marine
Fisheries Services, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service, in trying to determine short- and long-term
needs to protect coho
salmon and two species of suckers while providing water
for irrigators and national wildlife refuges.
She succeeds Pablo Arroyave, who left last summer after two years as manager of a project that moves water over 240,000 acres.
“I’m there until they tell me to do something different,” Fry said of her tenure in the Klamath Basin. “My goal is do the very best job I can.”
Side Bar
Sue Fry has 16 years of federal government service through the Bureau of Reclamation and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
During her time with the federal government, she worked on projects connected to the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers and held positions in Washington, D.C., and the Pentagon. She also was a private water resources consultant.
Fry, 40, likes to ride road and mountain bikes and go downhill and cross country skiing. She earned a bachelor’s degree in wildlife biology from the University of California at Davis.
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