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Show Reynolds Named Assoc. Regional Director NPS BRYCE CANYON NATIONAL NA-TIONAL PARK Robert W. Reynolds, formerl Superintendent at Bryce Canyon National Park from Mar. 1988 to May 1991, has been named as the new associate regional director for Park Operations Opera-tions and Resources in the National Park Service's Rocky Mountain Region. He has now lived . or worked in parks in each of the six states within that region. "Bob has spent 14 of his 23 years with the Park Service in the Rocky Mountain Region," said Regional Director Bob Baker. "It's really rare to find someone for a regional re-gional job who's so well versed with the parks in each state. Bob will be guiding the operations and resource protection of our 41 parks - we'll all greatly benefit from his experience." The Rocky Mountain Region covers Utah, Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming. In his new job, Reynolds will oversee law enforcement en-forcement and search and rescue, natural resource management, cultural cul-tural resource management and interpretation. in-terpretation. Reynolds' most recent post was as superintendent of Acadia National Na-tional Park in Maine, but he has also served as superintendent of four other region parks besides Bryce Canyon: Capitol Reef National Na-tional Park; Great Sand Dunes National Na-tional Park, Colo.; Mount Rush-more Rush-more National Memorial, S.D. and Colorado National Monument, Colo. "I'm delighted to return to the red rocks of the west," said Reynolds. "I love the parks of this region and the spirit of its people." Reynolds, 48, has sampled a lot of country in his trek around the National Park System which began at birth. He was born at Jackson, Wyo., just outside of Yellowstone National Park, where his father, Harvey, worked. He lived at Yellowstone until age 5 when his father's work look i- - 0 Robert W. Reynolds the family to Theodore Rooscvell National Park, N.D.; Pipestone National Na-tional Monument, Minn.; the NPS's Midwest Regional Office in Omaha, Om-aha, Neb. and finally back to Yellowstone. Yel-lowstone. Reynolds graduated from the University of Nebraska with a B.S. in zoology in 1971, after a stint in the U.S. Army took him to Germany Ger-many as a linguist in Russian. His boyhood fascination with the parks lured him into the National Na-tional Park Service in 1971 when he began work as an ecologist with the Eastern Service Center in Washington, Washing-ton, D.C. He also served at Grand Canyon National Park, Ariz., San Juan Island National Historic Park, Wash., and Craters of the Moon National Monument in Idaho. His brother, John, has also traveled trav-eled the National Park Service circuit cir-cuit extensively and is now deputy director of the Park Service in Washington, D.C. Reynolds and his wife, Barbara, have a daughter, Kristina, 23 and son, Scott, 20. Reynolds began work in the regional re-gional office in Lakewood, Colo, on Mar. 6. |