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, it would really help if you would actually read Federalist 10 before trying to use it to base your claims. Let's examine portions of it that may be particularly pertinent here:
AMONG the numerous advantages promised by a well constructed Union, none deserves to be more accurately developed than its tendency to break and control the violence of faction. The friend of popular governments never finds himself so much alarmed for their character and fate, as when he contemplates their propensity to this dangerous vice. He will not fail, therefore, to set a due value on any plan which, without violating the principles to which he is attached, provides a proper cure for it. The instability, injustice, and confusion introduced into the public councils, have, in truth, been the mortal diseases under which popular governments have everywhere perished; as they continue to be the favorite and fruitful topics from which the adversaries to liberty derive their most specious declamations.
Given all the specious declamations we've heard coming from trump and his worshippers over the past four years, the clip above speaks volumes.
Federalist 10 explains why our form of government may be more stable than others and we have certainly seen that demonstrated by results of our last election. In this paper, Madison further described exactly why and how our Constitution was necessary to prevent people like trump from hijacking our nation:
By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adversed to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.
There are two methods of curing the mischiefs of faction: the one, by removing its causes; the other, by controlling its effects.
There are again two methods of removing the causes of faction: the one, by destroying the liberty which is essential to its existence; the other, by giving to every citizen the same opinions, the same passions, and the same interests.
Examine the last paragraph above and you find an excellent description and warning regarding the perverted use of social media that is now driving Americans into opposing camps and a warning against misinformation campaigns.
Madison even warns us against tactics trump may be considering as he faces some very real possibilities of well-deserved legal actions and, as has been reported, is considering a self-pardon for himself and his henchmen:
No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity.
And finally, Madison describes perfectly what just happened in November 2020:
In the next place, as each representative will be chosen by a greater number of citizens in the large than in the small republic, it will be more difficult for unworthy candidates to practice with success the vicious arts by which elections are too often carried; and the suffrages of the people being more free, will be more likely to centre in men who possess the most attractive merit and the most diffusive and established characters.
So, ec, now it's your chance to clip and quote portions of the paper you believe support your specious arguments. Let's see what you have to offer.
You seem to be wrong as well! American is in fact a corporation ran and owned by Great Britian! Don't let what you learned in school fool you. We are all just Chess ponds in a chess game...