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Show Gary Everhardt Is New Chief Of Park Service Secretary of the Interior In-terior Rogers C.B. 'Morton 'Mor-ton has announced the appointment of Gary K. Kverhardt, Superintendent Superintend-ent of Grand Teton National Na-tional Park, Wyoming, as the new Director of the National Park Service. Kverhardt succeeds Ronald II. Walker, who resigned January 1, to return to private life. Secretary Morton, in accepting ac-cepting Walker's letter of resignation, wrote that under Walker's leadership leader-ship "Significant strides have been made in protecting pro-tecting the natural environment en-vironment and in providing pro-viding for the enjoyment and education of people in areas under your jurisdiction." jur-isdiction." "Gary Kverhardt has had 17 years of professional profes-sional experience in the National Park Service," Secretary Morton said today. "During the last six years he has been a top echelon official of two large, heavily visited visit-ed national parks --front-line field experience experi-ence which will be invaluable inval-uable as he takes over management of the complex com-plex and increasingly diversified di-versified National Park System." |