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Show RobDanno Chief of Visitor Services Bryce Canyon National Park has undergone numerous personnel changes in the past few months, numerous enough to introduce its new staff members to local communities. com-munities. The park has two new Division Chiefs: Rob Danno, Chief of Visitor Visi-tor Services (Visitor and Resource Protection, Interpretation and Fee Collection) and Rick Wallen, Chief of Resource Management. Danno is an 18-year veteran of the National Park Service, having served in 10 different and varied National Na-tional Park Service areas, most recently re-cently as Chief Ranger at Chirica-hua Chirica-hua National Mounument and Fort Bowie National Historic Site in southeastern Arizona. He met his wife Mary in college at California State University in Sacramento, Calif. Rob and Mary, who reside in the park, have three children, Troy 11, Katie 9, and Sarah 7. Wallen has worked for the National Na-tional Park Service since 1978, most recently at Redwood National and State Parks in northwestern California. Rick has a background in wildlife and Fisheries biology. He and his wife Carolyn have two children, chil-dren, Erica, a 5th grader and Kevin, a 3rd grader. Rick says his professional profes-sional goals for the park are, "to build upon the established methods of preservation of both natural and cultural resources." Rick and his family reside in the park. Ross Wilmore is the Fire Management Man-agement Officer for the park and serves as the Prescribed Fire Specialist Spe-cialist for all of the National Park Service units in southern Utah. Ross began his fire career in 1986 with the Bureau of Land ManagementAlaska Manage-mentAlaska Fire Service as a crewman crew-man on the Chena Interagency Hotshot Hot-shot Crew. He helped develop a couple of training programs and in 1996 became a Lead Fire Suppression Suppres-sion Specialist in Alaska, shifting his focus to fuels and prescribed fire. Ross and his wife Brenda reside in the park. Tom and Rhea Dearden work in the Facility Management Division. Tom is an Equipment Operator and Rhea is the Facility Management Assistant. Rhea transferred from 0 i t V'" i - j J I Rick Wallen Chief of Resource Management New, Newer And Newest Faces At Bryce Canyon National Park Great Basin National Park. They have lived in the Garrison, Utah area for 25 years and are co-owners in a family ranch in that area. Rhea and Tom have four children ages 16 to 23. Three are in college and the youngest; Dayna is currently a junior jun-ior at Bryce Valley High School. Rhea's professional goals for the park are "to do the work of my position po-sition to the best of my ability and in such a way that life is made easier eas-ier and smoother for those I work with." Kevin Poe, a second generation Park Ranger, is an Interpretive Park Ranger at the park. His father Noel Poe is currently Superintendent of Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota. Kevin's education began in a one-room, log cabin schoolhouse in the Stehikin District Dis-trict of North Cascades National Park in Washington. He attended middle school and high school in Bicknell, Utah, attended Utah State University. He 'worked seasonally for the U.S. Forest Service in Leadville, Colo, then switched to the National Park Service. Kevin married his high school sweetheart, Sandra Johnson . Poe from Hanksville, Utah. He transferred To Bryce Canyon National Park from Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area in Ohio. He said, "I lived and worked in a lot of beautiful beau-tiful places, but I most enjoyed my time spent in Utah." |