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The Director of the National Park Service of the United States is nominated by the President and requires a Senate confirmation. List of directors of the National Park Service [ edit ]
Pages in category "Directors of the National Park Service" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Gary E. Everhardt (July 8, 1934 – December 27, 2020), [2] was the ninth Director of the US National Park Service (NPS). He began his NPS career as an engineer in 1957 and rose to the superintendency of Grand Teton National Park in 1972. Favorable notice there propelled him to the directorship in January 1975.
In 1951, Conrad Wirth became director of the NPS and began to bring park facilities up to the standards that the public was expecting. [17] In 1952, with the support of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Wirth began Mission 66, a ten-year effort to upgrade and expand park facilities for the 50th anniversary of the Park Service. New parks were ...
The American National Park Service's Volunteers-In-Parks (VIP) program was authorized by Public Law 91-357 enacted in 1970. The purpose of the program is to provide a way through which the NPS can accept and utilize voluntary help in such a way that it is mutually beneficial to the NPS and volunteers.
[2] He served for six years as a natural resource planner for the Parks Service in Denver. [2] He held jobs at the Curecanti National Recreation Area in Colorado, Cape Cod National Seashore in Massachusetts in 1994, and the Mojave National Preserve in California. [3] [2] He was a resource manager, planner and division chief at Yosemite National ...
Ronald H. Walker (born July 25, 1937) is an American executive. Walker served in the administration of President Richard Nixon, first as the first Director of the White House Office of Presidential Advance, and later as Director of the National Park Service (1973–1975).
Counting methodology is rooted in the language of a park's enabling legislation. Furthermore, the NPS contributes resources to "affiliated areas" which do not fall under its administration, and these do not count toward the official list number. An example is Oklahoma City National Memorial.