I spent 35 years with the NPS, retiring in 1998. I served as a climbing and back country and road patrol ranger at RMNP while in college. As a career employee I was at Crater Lake NP; Glen Canyon NRA; first Area Manager for Guadalupe Mtns. NP (4 yrs.); Supt of Capulin Mtn. NM (4 yrs.), Supt. of Glacier Bay NP & Preserve (4 yrs.), Chief of Ranger Activities and Resource Mgmt. for the former Rocky Mtn. RO (7 yrs.); Supt. of Curecanti NRA and Black Canyon NP (7 yrs.); and swapped with the Asst. Supt. of RMNP for 2 1/2 years before retiring in the Denver area.

I then spent 4.5 yrs. working for a company with a gov't contract to support US Job Corps activites, managing the job placement specialists in CO and WY.

I now work for the Southern Rockies Conservation Alliance and The Wilderness Society, helping educate wildland/urban interface communities in CO on the importance of Community Wildfire Protection Plans. Once a community moves to complete a plan I am a plan team member, along with state Forest Service, county mitigation and USFS personnel.