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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.
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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.
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