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October 13, 2013

Head National Park Service Goon Is, Natch, an Obamoron

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"Befehl ist Befehl" ("Orders are Orders")

Jonathan B. Jarvis (born June 26, 1953) is the 18th Director of the United States National Park Service, confirmed by the United States Senate on September 25, 2009. He was serving as regional director for the Pacific West Region when, on July 10, 2009, President Barack Obama nominated Jarvis for the directorship following the resignation of Mary A. Bomar on January 20, 2009, the day of President Obama's inauguration.

He faces many challenges, not least rebuilding morale among park service staff members. He must recruit a new generation of committed young employees and begin to deal with the effects of climate change on plant and animal species. He will need to clear up the backlog of maintenance projects and address the sad fact that it is now legal to carry guns in parks. Editorial July 13, 2009 - A New Voice for the National Parks - NYTimes.com

Posted by gerardvanderleun at October 13, 2013 11:24 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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Committed Greenie enviro-weenie. Humorless ideologue. No fun in the parks. Preservation is all. Anti citizen visitation to the parks which they pay for. Robotic devotion to following orders from Obama. He's a glaring example of the problem throughout the Federal Bureaucracy.

Posted by: Jimmy J. at October 13, 2013 11:50 AM

He needs to be fired, along with the whole top echelon of the NPS. I'd to go even further and subcontract park management to private firms.

Posted by: chuck at October 13, 2013 11:57 AM

Dang! And I thought I was only one who'd been impressed by every NPS employee I'd ever met. Snotty tree-hugger know-it-alls, to a one.

Posted by: Mike Anderson at October 13, 2013 12:03 PM

"Climate change" is the last refuge of the deluded.

Posted by: Smokey at October 13, 2013 1:07 PM

There are only a handful of national sites with national significance. Most are in DC. The vast majority came into being because some locality or interest group lobbied for and got national designation for some local happening, simply to get federal dollars into the local area. Each of these should be deeded over to the state, county, municipality, or interest group if they want it, otherwise put on the market, and the NPS reduced to a small office that handles contract operation and maintenance for the few remaining national sites.

Posted by: BillH at October 13, 2013 2:38 PM

He's from the "Northwest" what else can be said.

The NPS needs to go. See Grand Teton NP of a great example of the "rich and powerful" bulldozing out the little guy to get "their Park".

Posted by: Lazarus Long at October 13, 2013 4:17 PM

"and address the sad fact that it is now legal to carry guns in parks."

I can't believe that I just read an anti-gun statement in the Times.

Posted by: Jason in KT at October 13, 2013 4:24 PM

I expect most of the national park service guys are lefties. Park and outdoor work seems to attract a lot of environmental types rather than hunters and fishers.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at October 13, 2013 6:50 PM

What would union members do if they had the name of someone making their life miserable? Our side will wait for the NY Times to tell us we have a point about vindictive govt actions. Maybe that's why nobody screws with unions and everybody screws with us?

Posted by: Scott M at October 14, 2013 1:20 AM

The national parks, forests, and fish and wildlife would be better run by the states.

Posted by: indyjonesouthere at October 14, 2013 10:54 AM

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