Fighting for the future of public lands: Out as White River National Forest chief, Scott Fitzwilliams vows to battle for unique American legacy

Fighting for the future of public lands: Out as White River National Forest chief, Scott Fitzwilliams vows to battle for unique American legacy

Scott Fitzwilliams didn’t expect to last 16 years as supervisor of the White River National Forest that surrounds Vail and stretches all the way to Aspen and beyond. Such posts in the U.S. Forest Service, which manages an area the size of Texas nationwide, typically last just four or five years. But Fitzwilliams stayed on in the 2.3-million-acre White River, the most visited national forest in the nation, because of his family in Glenwood Spring…