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FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 1998 |
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by NATIONAL PARK SERVICE YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK (NPS) -- Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Michael Finley is pleased to announce that Rick Obernesser accepted the position as Chief Ranger for Yellowstone National Park in July 1998; Rick had been Acting Chief Ranger since accepting a position of Assistant Chief Ranger for the park in February of this year. Rick will be responsible for the planning and coordination of all programs and activities concerned with resource management and visitor protection at Yellowstone, and will supervise rangers throughout the park. "Rick brings outstanding qualifications to this job," Superintendent Finley noted. "We're pleased Rick agreed to be part of our staff." Raised in northern California, Chief Ranger Obernesser earned a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Resources from Sacramento State University in 1973. Before beginning his career with the National Park Service, Rick worked for the Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of Land Management. Rick began his career with the National Park Service in 1984 as a park ranger at Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona. He remained in this position until December 1985 when he transferred to Glen Canyon National Recreation Area in Arizona and Utah. In 1988, Rick accepted a position as Supervisory Park Ranger at Great Smokey Mountains National Park in North Carolina and Tennessee, and then at Yosemite National Park in California in 1990. In 1993, Rick was appointed Chief Ranger at Cape Cod National Seashore, Massachusetts, where he remained until accepting the position as Assistant Chief Ranger at Yellowstone. "Our family is excited about the opportunity to live and work here at Yellowstone," Chief Ranger Obernesser noted. My wife, Pam, has fond memories of camping here as a young girl; and, later, we both visited the park on several occasions. In 1988, I spent time in the park as Crew Boss on the North Fork fire." Rick and his wife, Pam, also a National Park Service employee, have two children-Stephanie, 10 years old, and Scott, 12 years old.
Trumpeter Concerns Raised from WYOMING STATE NEWS RIVERTON, Wyo. -- An official with the Wyoming Game and Fish Department says he's worried that the state's trumpeter swan population may disappear if the birds don't start nesting outside of Yellowstone. Non-game Coordinator Bob Oakleaf says the birds might be resettled in other areas... but he notes that public input would be necessary to implement that. A combination of Yellowstone's harsh winter climate and competition from Canadian trumpeters have made Yellowstone a difficult place for the birds. Officials say there are fewer than 500 trumpeters left in the state.
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by NATIONAL PARK SERVICE YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK (NPS) -- Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Michael Finley announced today that the park will soon begin a project to restore native vegetation on the "triangle" area near the North Entrance. The project area is located between the Roosevelt Arch, the North Entrance, and Front Street of Gardiner, Montana. The "triangle" has a long history of human use. Throughout the years it has been used as a bus parking lot, a horse racetrack, an elk feeding ground, and an irrigated hay field. As a result of this disturbance, this area is primarily covered by non-native vegetation. Since 1996, Russian thistle, an exotic annual that produces tumbleweed,
has dominated 11 acres of the 23-acre triangle. To mitigate this problem, the National Park Service plans to immediately begin control of the Russian thistle with an herbicide application. Next, the park will burn the accumulated tumbleweed sometime this fall after Labor Day. Next spring, park staff will spread native seed collected near the area. It is expected that the resulting native vegetation community will prevent re-invasion of the Russian thistle and further build-up of tumbleweed. For additional information regarding the restoration project, please call the National Park Service at (307) 344-2143.
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