Shackelton Named to National Leadership Team
National Park Service News Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – February 3, 2010
Contact: David Barna (202) 208-6843
Gerry Gaumer (202) 208-6843
Shackelton Named to National Leadership Team
WASHINGTON – National Park Service (NPS) Director, Jon Jarvis announced
today that Steve Shackelton has been selected as the associate director for
visitor and resource protection. Shackelton, who has been chief ranger at
Yosemite National Park for the last eight years, will assume his duties in
March in Washington, DC. As associate director, he will manage national
fire, aviation, law enforcement, resource protection, wilderness,
regulation development, public health, emergency medicine, and search and
rescue programs. He replaces Karen Taylor-Goodrich who is now
superintendent of Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks in California.
“Steve brings incredible field experience mixed with Washington know-how to
this position,” said Jarvis. “He will be a key member of the leadership
team that sets the policies and direction for the entire National Park
Service. As our national chief ranger, Steve will step up the infusion of
science, law, and technology into all disciplines of ranger activities and
ensure that fire management, wilderness, and other programs have the best
information possible as we face a changing climate and other factors that
impact park resources.”
Shackelton will also concentrate on improving workforce conditions –
especially in the area of employee education, and crafting formal programs
to diversify the ranger workforce.
Shackelton has served as superintendent of Pinnacles National Monument in
California and in Washington, DC, in the NPS Office of Legislative and
Congressional Affairs and the U.S. Senate as part of the NPS Bevinetto
Fellowship.
He spent nine years in Alaska and five years in Hawaii in resource
protection management positions. He began his NPS career at Grand Teton
National Park in Wyoming as a ranger working in fire, search and rescue,
emergency medicine, and law enforcement; and six summers as a firefighter
on the Sierra National Forest in California.
Shackelton has bachelors and masters degrees in Criminology from California
State University, Fresno, and a Masters of Public Administration from the
University of Alaska, Anchorage. In 1990, he completed the FBI National
Academy executive management program and served as a Congressional Fellow
from 1997 through 1999. In 2005, he finished the federal Senior Executive
Candidate Development Program – an 18-month program in the Department of
the Interior, completing a detail assignment with the University of
California and time at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and the
Stanford Graduate School of Business, Executive Development Program.
Shackelton currently lives in Yosemite and Mariposa with his wife, Jane,
and has a daughter, Dana, at the University of California-Davis, School of
Veterinary Medicine.
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