Stephen Martin Appointed National Park Service Deputy Director

Stephen Martin has been the director of the NPS intermountain region since September 2003.

Stephen Martin, 52, has been appointed National Park Service Deputy Director by Fran Mainella, director of the National Park Service (NPS). Martin fills the vacancy of Durand Jones.

The NPS has the responsibility for 388 national parks, employs some 20,000 people and has a $2.6 billion budget. Martin will leave Denver for Washington, D.C. to take up his new duties in April 2005.

Martin has a BS in natural resource management from the University of Arizona and joined NPS in 1975 as a park ranger for Grand Canyon National Park. He has been the superintendent of Grand Teton National Park (Wyoming), the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Memorial Parkway (Wyoming), Denali National Park and Preserve (Alaska), and the Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve (Alaska).

Martin's wife, Cyd, also employed by NPS, is special assistant for intermountain Indian affairs.