biologist nurse wildlife biologist forest technician
Barbara Kathleen Warren was born on October 3, 1943, in Appleton, Wisconsin. She is the daughter of Richard Grant Henika and Beatrice Marie (Kath) Henika. Her professional life developed across nursing, forestry, wildlife biology, public service, and community volunteer work, with long-term connections to California and the western United States.
Warren earned a nursing diploma from St. Luke's School of Nursing in San Francisco in 1965. She later completed an Associate in Science degree in Forest Technology at Green River Community College in Auburn, Washington, in 1976, followed by a Bachelor of Science degree in Wildlife Biology at the University of California, Davis, in 1990. This sequence of training supported her transition from hospital nursing into forestry and wildlife biology and ultimately into leadership positions with the U.S. Forest Service.
Warren began her professional career in 1965 as an intensive-care-unit nurse at Ross General Hospital in California. From 1966 to 1968 she worked in emergency-room and cardiac-care nursing at St. Luke's Hospital. She served with the U.S. Army Nurse Corps from 1968 to 1971, then became head nurse of the intensive care and cardiac care units at Valley General Hospital in Auburn, California, from 1971 to 1976. In 1976-1977 she worked as a forest technician with the Washington Department of Natural Resources in Husum, Washington, before returning to hospital nursing as an emergency-room and intensive-care nurse at Marshall Hospital in Placerville, California, from 1977 to 1978. In 1978 Warren began a long U.S. Forest Service career as a forestry and wildlife biology technician in the Pioneer, California, area. Her subsequent Forest Service responsibilities included training personnel in critical-incident stress for Region 5 beginning in 1987, serving as a district wildlife biologist from 1989 to 1990, working as a career advisor from 1990, serving as an assistant forest wildlife biologist in 1990-1991, and serving as an assistant district ranger in 1991-1992. By 1998 she was public services program area leader with the Stanislaus National Forest, where she was later identified as a public-service leader and team leader for forest planning and travel-management work. Her public-service responsibilities included participation in wilderness, environmental review, visitor-service, and forest-management matters.
Democrat
Warren chaired the outdoor program committee of the Girl Scouts of the United States of America in Sacramento from 1981 to 1985 and served as a master-planning consultant for the organization from 1984 to 1986. She volunteered with the American Red Cross in Sacramento beginning in 1985 and served as a volunteer disaster nurse from 1986. She also served with the U.S. Army Nurse Corps from 1968 to 1971.
Chair of the outdoor program committee in Sacramento.
Girl Scouts of the United States of America
1981 - 1985
Master-planning consultant.
Girl Scouts of the United States of America
1984 - 1986
Volunteer in Sacramento; served as a volunteer disaster nurse from 1986.
American Red Cross
1985
Served as a military nurse.
United States Army Nurse Corps
1968 - 1971
Warren is the daughter of Richard Grant Henika and Beatrice Marie (Kath) Henika. Her professional connections included the Girl Scouts of the United States of America, the American Red Cross, the U.S. Army Nurse Corps, the Washington Department of Natural Resources, and the U.S. Forest Service.
