Mark Rey Biography
As the under secretary for natural resources and environment, Rey oversees the programs of the Forest Service and the Natural Resources Conservation Service. Rey has been directly involved in virtually all of the forestry and conservation legislation considered during the past several sessions of Congress, with principal responsibility for a number of public lands bills. Since January 1995, Rey served as a staff member with the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. He was the lead staff person for the committee's work on national forest policy and Forest Service administration. In addition, he worked on the Herger/Feinstein Quincy Library Act of 1998 and the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000. For 18 years Rey served in a variety of positions with several forest product associations including the American Forest and Paper Association, the American Forest Resource Alliance, the National Forest Products Association, and the American Paper Institute/National Forest Products Association, a consortium of national trade associations. From 1974-75 he worked as a staff assistant for the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management in Billings, Mont., and Washington, DC. Rey is a native of Canton, Ohio. He holds a B.S. degree in wildlife management, a B.S. degree in forestry, and a M.S. degree in natural resources policy and administration, all from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
