Dombeck, a native of Stevens Point and a former fishing guide, says he wants to write and teach, perhaps from a base in his home state. He went fishing. Though he's careful with words, it's clear the Bill Clinton appointee wasn't among friends in the new administration.
Opponents range from timber interests to all-terrain vehicle owners.
Some like 'em horizontal, and some like 'em vertical. You cannot fail if you allow your loyalty to the land and to those yet to be born to take precedence over all other . . . An unflappable PhD scientist, survivor of more than a hundred congressional hearings, Dombeck hasn't gone on the offensive since leaving his job. Instead, he says that he had a cordial relationship with Veneman, that the Bush appointee needed to build her own team and that he's thankful she let him leave on his own terms. Dombeck, as a youth in Wisconsin, spent hour after hour tromping in the national forest, an opportunity he'd preserve for generations to come.