He grew up on the fringe of Yosemite National Park and went to school in Yosemite Valley, where his schoolhouse offered closeup views of Yosemite Falls, Glacier Point and Sentinel Rock.
Gary Ingram, Rocky Mountain National Park’s newest superintendent, poses for a portrait with Longs Peak in the background near the Beaver Meadows Visitor Center. He grew up in California’s Yosemite National Park and began his park service career there as a ranger, giving him a love for great mountains. He grew up on the fringe of Yosemite National Park and went to school in Yosemite Valley, where his schoolhouse offered close-up views of Yosemite Falls, Glacier Point and Sentinel Rock.
Two young moose walk by a stream along Old Fall River Road in Rocky Mountain National Park near Estes Park, Colorado on May 20, 2024. “Horses were absolutely needed for traffic control in Yosemite Valley,” Ingram said. “I caught a guy in a stolen car on my horseback, because they were stuck in traffic. I’m not joking. I felt like John Wayne.”
Cumberland Island, which requires a ferry ride or boat to visit, attracts about 62,000 visitors annually. Rocky Mountain National Park often will exceed that many in two or three days during the summer. “I think their idea of what to do, using the science that they had, they came up with a way to take that bell curve down. They were able to say, ‘If we do it this way, it’s going to flatten that curve and extend the visitation out. People aren’t going to show up all at one time, or within a few hours. It’s less impact overall. I am in favor of that,” he continued.Darla Sidles ran the nation’s fourth-busiest national park for seven years. Here’s what she learned.
“A lot of these cultural sites within the park have burned in the past,” Ingram said. “The next time they burn, under my watch, I want it to be controlled, not catastrophic. If we know where these cultural sites are, we can mitigate the damage by controlled burns, rather than the fire ripping through because we didn’t do the work necessary . Those are some of the big challenges we have, because time is not on my side.
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