About JIM
Jim is a member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of Northwestern Montana (CSKT). He holds a B.S. in Forest Resource Management from the University of Montana (‘87. He currently has over 39 years of experience in wildland fire management, forest planning and management, and environmental compliance. He is currently the Intertribal Timber Council’s (ITC) Wildland Fire Technical Specialist, contractor. Durglo was the Forestry Department Head for the CSKT from 2003-2017. Prior to that, he was a Forestry Project Planning Program Manager, the National Environmental Policy Act Compliance Program Manager at CSKT; a Bureau of Indian Affair’s Environmental Specialist and Forestry Presales Officer at the Yakama Agency in Toppenish, WA; and a Presales Forester at the Warm Springs Agency in Central Oregon. Durglo also spent three summers with the US Forest Service as a smokejumper in Missoula, Montana.
