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Article: Bay Area resident Jon Jarvis takes the helm as national parks director
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- October 17, 2009
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In 1976, when Jon Jarvis was just out of college, he took a
temporary job with the National Park Service handing out maps about
America's bicentennial celebration to tourists at the National Mall
in Washington, D.C.
In the 33 years since, he's been a park ranger and superintendent
across the West. He's led hikes, held campfire talks, battled forest
fires, made arrests, even rappelled down cliffs.
And now Jarvis, 56, a Pinole resident, is heading back to
Washington for his dream job -- as President Barack Obama's national
parks director.
Confirmed by the Senate on Sept. 24, Jarvis has worked since 2002
at the National Park Service's regional headquarters in Oakland,
supervising the 54 ...