John is the District Forester for district 8 in southwest Kansas. He was born and raised in the Adirondack Mountains of Northern New York. John has an A.A.S. Degree in Forest Technology from the New York State Ranger School and a B.S. Degree in Resources Management – Forestry from SUNY-ESF at Syracuse University. Before coming to Kansas, he was the Urban Forester for Ft. Lauderdale and Boca Raton, FL and a Timber Management Supervisor; both for the Florida Division of Forestry.
John is responsible for providing technical assistance to communities and rural landowners in southwest Kansas. He assists landowners in establishing, maintaining, and renovating windbreaks and other conservation tree plantings and forest holdings. John assists communities by training municipal tree workers, etc. on proper tree planting and maintenance.
Contact John Klempa
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Foresters
State Funding / Technical Resources
Contact John Klempa
Kansas Forest Service
Rural District Forester
2106 E Spruce Street
Garden City, KS 67846
Phone: 620-275-0211, ext 111
Service Area
Services provided in:
- Clark County, Kansas
- Comanche County, Kansas
- Edwards County, Kansas
- Finney County, Kansas
- Ford County, Kansas
- Gray County, Kansas
- Greeley County, Kansas
- Hamilton County, Kansas
- Haskell County, Kansas
- Hodgeman County, Kansas
- Kearny County, Kansas
- Kiowa County, Kansas
- Meade County, Kansas
- Morton County, Kansas
- Ness County, Kansas
- Pawnee County, Kansas
- Scott County, Kansas
- Seward County, Kansas
- Stanton County, Kansas
- Stevens County, Kansas
- Wichita County, Kansas