Shenandoah National Park Gets New Superintendent

Skyline Drive, Shenandoah National Park, Virginia

Chas Cartwright, 54, the former superintendent of Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado will become the Shenandoah National Park superintendent June 2005. He will succeed Doug Morris, who is retiring. In the interim, deputy superintendent Trish Kicklighter is acting superintendent.

Cartwright will supervise 180 employees and oversee the 200,000-acre park that runs along 105 miles of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The park has more than 500 miles of nature trails, 101 miles of the Appalachian Trail and 80,000 miles of designated wilderness.

Mr. Cartwright has been with the park service for 18 years and prior to that worked for the Bureau of Land Management as an archeologist and for the United States Forest Service as a fire lookout, river ranger, and firefighter. He is a native of Detroit and graduated from Michigan State University in 1972 with a bachelor's degree in anthropology.

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