Cicely Muldoon has been chosen as the permanent superintendent of Yosemite National Park/NPS
Cicely Muldoon, a 35-year veteran of the National Park Service, has been chosen as Yosemite National Park's superintendent. Muldoon has been serving as the acting superintendent at the park since January.
Muldoon will oversee the 750,000-acre park and its 1,200 employees. Yosemite attracts more than four million visitors annually, who spend nearly half a billion dollars in nearby communities supporting more than 6,000 local jobs.
“A childhood visit to Yosemite introduced me to national parks. It captured my imagination and my heart then, and still does. It’s the honor of my career to join the outstanding team of employees and partners who care for and love Yosemite as much as I do,” said Muldoon.
Prior to her acting position at Yosemite, Muldoon served for nearly 10 years as the superintendent at Point Reyes National Seashore— one of the most ecologically rich areas in the United States. At Point Reyes, Muldoon led historic investments and improvements to park infrastructure and built and strengthened relationships with local communities and elected officials to find commonsense solutions to managing the park’s complex array of resources, from designated wilderness to historic dairy farms, a Park Service release said.
Before her appointment at Point Reyes, Muldoon served for five years as a NPS deputy regional director based in San Francisco where she oversaw partnerships, visitor and resource protection, interpretation and education, wildland and structural fire and safety programs across the region. She also provided direct oversight of 10 parks including Death Valley, Joshua Tree and Lake Mead. Before serving as a regional official, Muldoon was the superintendent at Pinnacles National Park and earlier at San Juan Island National Historical Park.
A California native, Muldoon holds a Bachelor of Science in zoology from the University of California, Davis. She officially begins her new role on November 8.
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ec needs to go back to school.
The United States is a DEMOCRATIC Republic.
That means that democracy is the foundation of the republic.
In some other forms of "republics," like the Peoples Republic of China leaders of the government are selected by other leaders, but NOT by the common people of the land. (Yes, in some places common people might be afforded a 'vote' but they may only select from a list of candidates put forth by the ruling party.)
And now, we have within the current sham administration and their enablers, a strong and growing effort to destroy the democratic portion of our republic. Do we really want to become the "People's Republic of Trumpia?" Or do we actually want to hang on to that piece of parchment that has done such a good job of guiding us for over 200 years?
Anon - https://www.heritage.org/american-founders/report/america-republic-not-d... We are a representative republic. Some call it a representative democracy but we are not a pure democracy where majority rules - thankfully. BTW read Madison's Federalist Paper 10. It details why the distinction is so important.
Hey EC, most people following NPT aren't all that interested in your link to a right-wing prograganda organization (i.e. Heritage) masquerading as a think tank. C'mon, EC, even you can come up with something better than that to prove your agrument that we're not a democracy.
I still do not understand why posters here continue to engage the trolls who show little interest in parks but extreme interest in advocating their far-right conservative views.
Federalist 10 was an interesting choice in ec's feeble attempt to explain himself.
But it DOES present an excellent portrayal of the Founders' caution regarding electing a man like trump.
It also shows us that presidential pardons are not intended to be used by someone seeking to pardon himself.
I'm with you 100%, Brian P, and, although I've grown a bit tired of wrestling with this pig, I still have just a few questions.
First, who would actually want to convince their fellow Americans that America is not a democracy? What kind of American would be so eager to and focused upon convincing their fellow Americans to abandon their faith in our democracy? Why would they want to prove that America is not a democracy? What would be their motivation for putting so much time and energy into doing so? What could they want and what could they think they have or any American has to gain by their efforts to undermine our faith in our democracy?
Second and far more important, especially now that the infamous Heritage Foundation has been brought into the picture, why would an organization, especially any 501(c)(3) charitable organization, want to spend public charitable donations on efforts to document, prove, and convince Americans that America is not a democracy? Especially in this time of tragic national need, what organization that proclaims itself to be a legitimate 501(c)(3) charitable nonprofit would actually want to devote the public's well-intended charitable donations toward efforts to convince their fellow Americans that America is not a democracy? How could such people possibly believe they are doing a charitable service, again during this time of extreme national need, by allocating charitable public donations toward efforts to convince Americans that America is not a democracy and to thus undermine our faith in our democracy? For whom or with whom could they possibly be working and toward what end?
Third and even more important, an organization, any organization, that holds 501(c)3 charitable nonprofit status enjoys potent tax advantages; however, in return for those advantages, it must comply with specific rules, regulations, and laws, generally including prohibitions against partisan political activities. Personally, I believe there is more than enough evidence, more than sufficient probable cause, to contend that the efforts of the infamous Heritage Foundation so aimed at convincing Americans that America is not a democracy and thus undermining our faith in our democracy are actually actions undertaken to further a legally proscribed partisan political agenda. If so, I believe that would be a clear violation of tax law provisions governing the infamous Heritage Foundation's 501(c)3 status and possibly involving tax evasion ...just sayin'?
I did Brian. James Madison's Federalist Paper #10. Or was James Madison some right-wing propagandist? That paper makes it quite clear that our Founding Fathers did not want the country to be a pure democracy. Apparently his writing goes over the head of some people whose names will remain anonymous.
Hump, It would appear your ignorance of our history and political system is only equaled by your ignorance of tax law. There is nothing illegal about a 501(c)3 taking in partisan political activies. What is prohibited is campaigning for or against candidates.