Olympic National Park facilities management chief tapped for Devils Tower post
Published 12:01 am Friday, September 28, 2012
PORT ANGELES — Reed Robinson, Olympic National Park’s chief of facility management, has been named superintendent of Devils Tower National Monument in northeastern Wyoming.
A 22-year National Park Service veteran, Robinson will begin work at Devils Tower on Nov. 18.
“Reed brings more than two decades of diverse and wide-ranging experience in natural and cultural resources management to this position,” said John Wessels, National Park Service intermountain regional director.
Robinson graduated from Utah Valley University.
He and his children are members of the Rosebud (Sicangu) Lakota tribe of Wyoming and South Dakota.
His wife, Kimberly, is a native of Torrington, Wyo.
He began working at Olympic National Park in 2007.
“Being selected to oversee the management of Devils Tower is a high honor and privilege,” Robinson said.
Devils Tower was named the nation’s first national monument in 1906 and is well-known for its appearances in the 1977 science fiction movie “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.”
Devils Tower is sacred to numerous Plains Indian tribes.
Robinson will oversee about 18 full-time staffers and an annual operating budget of about $1.27 million.
He will replace Dorothy FireCloud, who recently was named superintendent of Montezuma Castle and Tuzigoot national monuments in Arizona.
