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Death Valley Mission Accomplished

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As a career ranger for more than 30 years, James T. Reynolds has had assignments that have ranged from leading anti-alligator poaching patrols in Florida’s Everglades to training rangers at Lake Malawi National Park in Africa -- and being the current superintendent of Death Valley National Park.
Now, after stewarding the hottest place on Earth for eight years, Reynolds, 62, who recently raised eyebrows as the only active superintendent to openly criticize Interior Department proposals to change national park management policies, has announced plans to retire early next year.
A retirement party and sendoff to Reynolds and his wife, Dot, is planned for January in Boulder City, Nev., according to Death Valley spokesman Terry Baldino, who is helping to arrange the event.
‘We’re going to miss J.T. Reynolds,’ said Mike Cipra, California desert park program manager for the National Parks Conservation Assn. ‘When the Bush administration tried to rewrite park management policy for the national park service, he spoke out clearly and bravely.’

-- Louis Sahagun

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