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Jake Hoogland began working for the NPS as a seasonal employee at Mesa Verde National Park while attending law school. Later he returned to the Federal government working for the Bureau of Reclamation at Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area doing interpretation for that agency. Hoogland eventually (and thankfully) returned to Mesa Verde as a permanent employee of the NPS. From 1978 to 1988 he worked at the Denver Service Center in planning, environmental and cultural resource compliance, and other areas. This gave him exposure to a variety of park issues and problems throughout the NPS areas in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest and Western parks. In 1988 Hoogland moved to the Washington Office of the NPS as the Chief of the Environmental Quality Division. In the Washington Office he was responsible for NPS compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act, natural resource damage assessment and restoration of damaged resources and implementation of related policies. He has been involved in a variety of natural resources projects and issues in different parks and, as a result of those responsibilities, have a solid understanding of the issues facing the NPS at the park and national levels. During his service in the Washington Office Hoogland also served as a Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary for Fish, Wildlife and Parks during the Clinton Administration, and as acting chief of the Policy Office. He retired as Chief of the Environmental Quality Division in August 2008. Jake's current appointment expires December 31, 2012. Contact Jake at .
Doug Morris completed a 40 year career with the National Park Service in January, 2005. Early assignments included work as a park ranger at Cape Hatteras National Seashore, District Ranger at Point Reyes National Seashore and Sequoia National Park, and Chief Ranger at Cape Cod National Seashore and Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. Mr. Morris also served for six years as an instructor at the Horace Albright Training Center at Grand Canyon, Arizona. A high point during his years as a law enforcement ranger was assignment to the first team of 20 rangers providing initial protection/community education in the newly created national monuments in Alaska during the summer of 1979. Doug served as a park superintendent for 13 years, first at Saguaro National Park in Tucson, Arizona then at Shenandoah National Park in Virginia. For the last three years of his assignment at Saguaro National Park, Mr. Morris served concurrently as the Acting Chief of the Western Archeological and Conservation Center. Throughout his career with the National Park Service Doug was often called upon to be a member of various work groups assigned to develop new NPS policies, especially those addressing natural resources management, employee training, wilderness management, fire management, and law enforcement.

During the latter stages of his career, Mr. Morris often traveled outside the U.S. for the purpose of transporting NPS policies and practices. He has worked with government leaders and local park staff in Kenya, Tanzania, and South Africa. For four years he served as a key NPS representative advancing implementation of a formal partnership between the USNPS and the EUROPARC Federation, an organization that included managers of parks and preserves throughout Europe. A high point of his work in the international arena was a five-year collaboration with the World Bank and USAID to assist parks and protected areas in Croatia. More recently, Doug has visited China in collaboration with leaders from the Global Heritage Foundation for the purpose of promoting quality visitor experiences in the Ancient City of PingYao and the Wutai Shan Scenic Mountains. In November, 2007, Mr. Morris attended an International Workshop in the Galapagos Islands contributing to development of a strategy for a new Vocational Training Institute to be established there. Mr. Morris is a native Californian and graduated from San Jose State University with a degree in Wildlife Management. He now resides in the Bitterroot Valley in Victor, Montana. Doug's current term expires December 31, 2010. Contact Doug at .





James Thomas “JT” Reynolds was born in Galveston, Texas on October 30, 1946. JT developed a love for the “outdoors” and explored nature at an early age as a scout. JT’s major while attending Texas A&M University was Recreation and Parks Management and during his first two summers, he worked in the College Station and Houston Parks and Recreation Department’s Planning Divisions, designing parks and developing maintenance guides for swimming pools. His third summer was spent at Everglades National Park as a seasonal park ranger performing alligator poaching patrols. He landed his first permanent patrol ranger job at the Natchez Trace Parkway in Tupelo, Mississippi after graduation, class of 1969. Reynolds's bio cont'd on next page.

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JT Reynolds, cont. from previous page After completing his military obligation in 1972, JT returned to the NPS in Washington, D.C. as an Environmental Education Specialist working with middle school teachers and taking inner city youth to local and regional NPS areas to camp and experience the great out doors. After completing the Introduction to Park Operations training at Albright Training Center in 1973, JT was hired as the supervisory park ranger of the Yosemite Valley Mall Patrol. He also served as the Assistant Back Country Supervisor and the Assistant Wawona District Ranger. In 1978, JT transferred to Everglades NP as the Flamingo District Ranger. In 1981, JT returned to Albright Training Center as the training specialist for protection and resource management; he served as acting superintendent at Petrified Forest National Park (1984) for three months. In 1986, he transferred to the North Atlantic Region in Boston as the Chief of Ranger Activities and Natural Resources. JT next served as Chief of Ranger Activities and Risk Management in the Rocky Mountain Region, then as the Associate Regional Director for Park Operations. During this regional office assignment, the NPS reorganized and JT was hired as the Colorado Plateau Support Office Superintendent in 1995. He then served at Grand Canyon National Park as the Deputy Superintendent in 1997; and transferred to Death Valley National Park in January 2001 where he enhanced the park's efforts to reach out to youth.

Forty-one years of federal service has allowed JT to live and work in some very special places and it is his duty to protect park resources and serve visitors plus share these experiences and help others understand why it is imperative to save “Mother Earth” for future generations. He often shares that his generation has an opportunity and a mandate to help future generations eliminate impacts to wild places like Death Valley. JT believes the benefits are as rewarding to others as they are to those of us who have spent time in areas where the natural quiet and serenity applies its healing powers on our souls, places where the natural systems and the flora and fauna act naturally; and we learn lessons by just watching natural systems interact. The almighty spirits meant for man to be better stewards of Mother Earth, the temples for all of us to worship and honor whatever power we believe. JT's current appointment expires December 31, 2011. Contact JT at .





Richard B. (Rick) Smith retired from the National Park Service after 31 years as an employee of that agency. During his career, he worked as a ranger, a mid-level supervisor, and a senior manager. He accepted assignments in Yellowstone, Yosemite, the Albright Training Center in Grand Canyon, the Washington Office, Everglades, the Mid-Atlantic Regional Office, Carlsbad Caverns and Guadalupe Mountains, and the Southwest Region. Prior to joining the National Park Service, Rick taught in the public school system and was a Peace Corps Volunteer in the National University, Asuncion, Paraguay. Rick earned his B.A. degree in History at Albion College, Michigan. He also holds an M.A. in English Language and Literature from Michigan State University.

Upon his retirement, Rick became a conservation consultant, working primarily in Latin America because of his Spanish language skills. He has worked extensively in Central and South America with government management officials and public non-profit groups that have an interest in the management of Latin American protected area systems. Much of his work has been focused on improving the knowledge, skills, and abilities of park rangers in this part of the world. Upon the announcement by Bill Wade that he would be stepping down as Chair of the Executive Council effective February 26, 2010 (see below), a special election was held to name Wade's successor and Rick Smith was elected. Rick's term expires December 31, 2012. He may be contacted at .






Pat Tiller retired in 2005 after nearly 30 years with the U.S. National Park Service. Patterson Tiller served for the last 10 years as that agency's Deputy Associate Director for Cultural Resources. In that capacity, he was responsible for all of the Service's principal federal historic preservation and heritage programs serving both the units of the national park system as well as the entire nation. He was directly responsible for a staff of 200, an annual operating budget of $42 million, and an annual federal grant program of $178 million.

After receiving his undergraduate degree from the College of Arts and Science, University of Virginia in 1970, Tiller worked as a designer in professional theater. Pat received a Master's degree in 1977 in Architectural History with an emphasis in historic preservation from the University of Virginia, College of Architecture. He served as an architect in private practice in Maryland and then as historic preservation planner to the West Texas Council of Governments - a multi-county agency responsible for 22,000 square miles. Pat's responsibilities included land-use, management, and strategic planning as well as environmental review. He then joined the National Park Service, serving in the agency's Washington, D.C. and Denver, Colorado offices.

Pat has taught architectural history and historic preservation policy, planning, and practice at the University of Wyoming, the University of Virginia, Kansas State University, George Washington University in Washington, D.C. and Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland. He received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Goucher College in 2003 in recognition of his national contribution to historic preservation. Pat currently serves as a professor at Goucher College and George Washington University where he teaches graduate courses in heritage public policy. Pat lives in Falls Church, VA. Pat's current appointment expires December 31, 2012. Contact Pat at .






Bill Wade is a second-generation NPS careerist, reared in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, where his father spent nearly his entire career as Chief Park Ranger. He earned a bachelor's degree in business administration and biological sciences from Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO, in 1964. Following service in the U.S. Army, as an officer in the Corps of Engineers (including service in Viet Nam), he began his NPS career in 1967, as a park ranger in Mount Rainier NP, WA. Subsequent assignments took him to Yosemite NP, CA as a sub-district ranger; National Capital Parks, Central in Washington DC as a unit manager; and training specialist at the NPS Albright Training Center in Grand Canyon NP, AZ. In 1976-77, he spent one year in New Zealand on a Fulbright Scholarship assignment assisting with the development of a park ranger-training program at Lincoln College. He then served as Assistant Chief Ranger in Great Smoky Mountains NP, TN and NC. In 1981, he took another one-year overseas assignment in Trinidad and Tobago with the Organization of American States as a consultant to the government regarding National Parks and other protected areas. He returned to the NPS as Assistant Superintendent of Delaware Water Gap NRA, PA and NJ, followed by an assignment as Superintendent of the NPS Mather Training Center in Harpers Ferry, WV. He was assigned to the position of Superintendent, Shenandoah National Park, Virginia, in 1988 and retired from that position in July, 1997, after 34 years of Federal service. He now lives in Tucson, Arizona. Having served as the the Chair of the Executive Council from the Coalition's inception through February 26, 2010, Bill is now a Founding Director with full voting rights; his term expires December 31, 2012. Contact Bill at .