RangerChris Biography

Donna Biography I read all the VC members. Wow!!!! I don't have a long list of anything like you all do. I just like to road trip. And most of my road trips take me to a National Park. I love State Parks as well. A few years ago my brother and I, while coming back from Portland, Oregon to our home in Ohio. Of course we took a road trip. Scenic Trip, Route 2 all across the US. ...

Paul "Barky" Dionne Biography I am, quite simply, a National Park System enthusiast and collector. I have visted over 100 of them so far. The parks dovetail quite nicely into two of my interests: American history and the natural world. Having no other qualifications than amateur studies and personal explorations of the NPS, I am posting essays of my observations, experiences, and insights in my own blog, americaincontext.com. Homepage: America In Context

Jerry Rogers Biography Santa Fean Jerry Rogers served in the Old Santa Fe Trail Building as the last regional director of the Southwest Region. He is a member of the Coalition of National Park Service Retirees, a group of more than 600 former employees concerned about the directions taken by today's NPS leadership.

Mary McGreevy Biography

John Chapman Biography 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 ...

Christopher W. Biography

Gary Robb Biography I am Director of the National Center on Accessibility at Indiana University. We work with the National Park Service Accessibility Management Program in assisting NPS in addressing issues related to physical and program accessibility for individuals with disabilities in the National Park system. We provide training, technical assistance and consultation. We also conduct research on issues of interest to the NPS. Homepage: National Center on Accessibility

Bob Janiskee Biography While serving 33 years on the faculty of the University of South Carolina, I taught a national parks course, helped get Congaree National Park established, and worked as a V.I.P in that park. Now retired as Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Geography, I want to continue visiting parks, thinking about parks, and writing about parks until I assume room temperature. To help keep me focused and busy I teach “America’s National Parks” and several other courses through ...

Jen Stegmann Biography My favored life involves hiking and looking for elusive wildflowers in the Rockies. Spending nights in some small little cabin way back in the woods. And maybe writing about my journeys and experiences. My real life (the one that may or may not pay the bills) currently involves pursuing a Ph.D. in Natural Resources, with an emphasis in Human Dimensions, at Colorado State University. I've worked on a couple of smaller research projects around Colorado, but ...

Dr. Scott Goodman Biography

Chris Day Biography I am a guide, a naturalist, specializing in brown bears. My husband Ken and I own and operate Emerald Air Service in Homer Alaska-we have spent every day, the past 15 years, from mid May through October sharing the bears of Katmai National Park and Preserve with about 1100 people per season. Bears are not only our vocation, they are our avocation. They give us our living - we in turn advocate for them - active ...

Jim Stratton Biography Jim Stratton is the Alaska Regional Director for the National Parks Conservation Association, a position he has held since December 2002. Prior to joining NPCA, Jim spent eight years as the director of the Division of Parks and Outdoor Recreation for the Alaska Department of Natural Resources and 11 years as the Program & Finance Director for Alaska Conservation Foundation. He started his Alaska conservation career in 1981 as the Executive Director of the Southeast Alaska ...

Patrick Cone Biography Patrick Cone is a photographer and writer based in Park City Utah. His work has been seen in Sunset, National Geographic, Smithsonian, The Wall Street Journal, and dozens of other editorial, corporate and advertising clients. He is the author/photographer of 3 children's science books, including Grand Canyon: Nature in Action. Cone has also worked as a pilot, helicopter navigator, geologist, and county commissioner. He currently is a staff photographer for an international outdoor sports corporation. Homepage: Patrick ...

The Editor Biography The editor is Kurt Repanshek.

MaryBeth Lunsford Biography

Merryland Biography Homepage: Homeschool Rangers, by Jon Merryman

Randy W. Biography Avid Hiker Favorite Destinations: Yellowstone, Tetons, Glacier, Alaska Cruising in Hawaii and the Caribbean

Tom Bremer Biography My book "Blessed with Tourists: The Borderlands of Religion and Tourism in San Antonio" includes chapters on San Antonio Missions National Historical Park and how the National Park Service deals with the separation-of-church-and-state issue in their interpretations of religious sites. Currently I am writing a book on religion in Yellowstone National Park. For more information, view my web page at http://bremer.fastmail.fm/ Homepage: Personal page of Thomas S. Bremer

Craig Z Biography I am a self employed information management consultant and bison rancher in Central Kansas. I am also an avid hiker/backpacker and love the national parks. I am very partial to Rocky Mountain National Park, particulary the west side, and am also a National Parks Pass holder.

Donna Daniels Biography

Steve Surasky Biography

Frank Biography

Amy McNamara Biography Amy McNamara directs the National Park Program for the Greater Yellowstone Coalition. Amy works with local residents and GYC members to engage them is issues related to Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks. She is working to ensure Greater Yellowstone's national parks are setting the standard for public land stewardship in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and for other national parks across the country. Amy brought years of previous experience working across state and political boundaries to ...

R. Scott Jones Biography Homepage: rscottjones.com

Dorothy Biography

Robert Mutch Biography Hello there. I'm a nature photographer out of Eugene, Oregon and executive director of the Crater Lake Institute. I was raised in rural Montana, Idaho, and Alaska. Eugene, Oregon is now home to my wife and I. I have worked at several of the land management agencies: the Forest Service as a wildland firefighter, for a few years while finishing school at Washington State U., and then as an archaeologist at the BLM, Park Service, and ...

Mookie Biography A self-described National Park junkie, I whole-heartedly agree with Wallace Stegner's famous statement that the National Parks are "America's best idea". My goal is to visit all 58 parks before I die, and I hope there are many more than that by the time I finish. My outlook on life can best be summed up in the words of Edward Abbey: Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am-- a reluctant enthusiast...a part time crusader, a ...

Ken Bers Biography Spent the majority of my time hiking the Grand Canyon Although I currently live in the Midwest. Will shortly be moving to Az to persue my passion for photagraphing our National Parks and nature in it:s most sublime form. A long way from a career in the chemical industry involved in sale and marketing. Feel very humble to be in the company of others on this page Member of the Grand Canyon Association and Pioneer Historical ...

Art Allen Biography I retired After 33 yrs in the National Park Service in 1990, but never lost my affection for the "Camelot" of the federal government, the National Park Service. I served as Park Ranger, Park Naturalist, Park Planner, Interpretive Planner, Chief Curator of the National Park Service, and Assistant Superintendent of the Blue Ridge Parkway. I believe the chief threats to America's National Parks and its public lands in general are privatization and the adverse impact of ...