U.S. President Barack Obama announced that he will nominate Jonathan B. Jarvis for Director of the National Park Service.
Jarvis has been an employee for the National Park Service for over 30 years, most recently serving as the Regional Director for the Pacific West Region, where he oversees 3,000 employees with a $350 million annual budget.
A New York Times editorial published yesterday said Jarvis’s nomination is the best news in the past nine years concerning the national parks and that he "spoke out fearlessly against the Bush administration’s alarming effort to promote commercial and recreational activities in the parks at the expense of conservation."
It goes on to say that rebuilding morale among park staff members is one of the biggest challenges that Jarvis would face as Director.
Read the editorial at the link below.
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