1 year ago
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YOSEMITE (KSEE/KGPE) - After a four-decade vocation with the National Park Service (NPS) and 4 years arsenic Yosemite National Park's superintendent, Cicely Muldoon has announced her retirement.
In an email to each Yosemite National Park employees, Muldoon said she volition beryllium leaving astatine the extremity of February 2025.
"I americium incredibly fortunate connected truthful galore fronts," Muldoon wrote successful the connection announcing her retirement. "To person lucked upon a vocation that enabled maine to service successful immoderate of the astir unthinkable places successful the country, to person recovered an enactment with a compelling and inspirational ngo that has sustained maine done the highs and lows of national service, and astir importantly, to person worked with radical similar you who are truthful dedicated to nationalist work and the NPS mission."
Muldoon started arsenic Yosemite’s superintendent successful 2020, initially stepping into the relation successful an acting capableness earlier being officially appointed aboriginal that year.
Before starring Yosemite, she spent a decennary arsenic superintendent of Point Reyes National Seashore, wherever she played a pivotal relation successful infrastructure improvements and strengthened assemblage relations. Her extended vocation besides includes enactment roles astatine Pinnacles National Park, San Juan Island National Historical Park, and arsenic a lawman determination manager overseeing aggregate parks.
During her tenure astatine Yosemite, Muldoon oversaw the implementation of a postulation absorption program introducing a preservation strategy to assistance modulate parkland visitation and support earthy resources. She besides navigated the parkland done the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic portion maintaining preservation efforts and visitant experiences.
Reflecting connected her idiosyncratic transportation to Yosemite, Muldoon noted that her passionateness for nationalist parks began with a puerility sojourn to Yosemite, an acquisition that near a lasting interaction connected her.
"A puerility sojourn to Yosemite introduced maine to nationalist parks. It captured my imaginativeness and my bosom past and inactive does. It’s the grant of my vocation to articulation the outstanding squad of employees and partners who attraction for and emotion Yosemite arsenic overmuch arsenic I do," she said.
The NPS has yet to denote a successor to instrumentality implicit Muldoon's relation astatine Yosemite National Park.
