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Show Park Service Creates Environmental Division Creation of an environmental environmen-tal division in the National Park Service Southwest regional reg-ional office was announced this week by Frank F. Kow-ski, Kow-ski, regional director, at the Santa Fe headquarters. Mr. Luther T. Peterson, Jr., superintendent of Big Bend National Park, Texas has been named chief of the environmental en-vironmental division. The action was taken because be-cause of the pressing environmental envir-onmental work load, Mr. Kow-ski Kow-ski said. The division will assist as-sist all of the 58 NPS areas in the fivestate region in preparation pre-paration of environmental issues is-sues as well as review environmental en-vironmental reports originating originat-ing outside the Service. Mr. Peterson is a native cf Texas and a graduate of Texas Tex-as A & M University. Ho started with the National Park Service, .a unit of the Department of the Interior, in San Francisco as a civil engineer in 1946. Prior to his assignment to Big Bend, he was assistant superintendent at Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming, and superintendent superinten-dent at Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico. "Mr. Peterson's many years of NPS experience as an engineer, en-gineer, as a regional chief of maintenance, and in park superintendent su-perintendent positions gives him the background needed for this demanding assignment," assign-ment," Mr. Kowski said. Cne of the first projects the newly formed division will be involved in is the Southwest Energy Study. Objective Ob-jective of the study is to evaluate ev-aluate the effects of coal anJ power production and transmission trans-mission systems on aesthetics aesthet-ics and all recreation areas as well as Service resources in this region. Two other members of the environmental division man agement team, Mr. Paul V. Wykert and Mr. John A. Ty-ers, Ty-ers, have recently been transferred trans-ferred into the Southwest Re gion. Mrs. Esther Humes will serve as research director for the division. Director Kowski emphasized emphasiz-ed the importance of the Southwest Energy Study, for which the Region has a prime responsibility. "While most of the field work will be done by Southwest Region office of-fice personnel, additions will be made to the team as needed need-ed from the Midwest and Western Regions, Washington, Washing-ton, and other agencies and private industry," Mr. Kowski Kow-ski said. |