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Michael T. Reynolds
Michael T. Reynolds is a career parks administrator who served as an acting director of the United States National Park Service in the first Trump administration. Early life and educationReynolds is a third-generation National Park Service employee.[1] He spent much of his childhood at Yosemite National Park, with his mother's family working concessions there. His father was a planner at the park. His grandfather was a park ranger at Yellowstone National Park.[1][2] Reynolds received a bachelor of arts degree in environmental studies at University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1985. He got a master’s in business administration at Regis University in Denver, Colorado.[1][3] He was a senior executive fellow at Harvard University in the spring of 2011.[3] CareerAfter college, Reynolds worked as a ranger, firefighter and biologist.[2] He served for six years as a natural resource planner for the Parks Service in Denver.[2] He held jobs at the Curecanti National Recreation Area in Colorado, Cape Cod National Seashore in Massachusetts in 1994, and the Mojave National Preserve in California.[3][2] He was a resource manager, planner and division chief at Yosemite National Park.[1] He became superintendent of Fire Island National Seashore in New York in 2004, deputy Northeast regional director of the National Park Service, and Midwest regional director of the National Park Service.[3][2] He moved to the National Park Service’s Washington headquarters in 2014, first as a director of workforce and inclusion and then as director of operations.[1] In 2016, he testified before a House committee to acknowledge sexual harassment at many park sites and pledged to protect workers better.[4] National Park Service acting directorReynolds became acting director of the Park Service in January 2017 when Jonathan Jarvis retired.[5] Reynolds had an awkward start with President Donald Trump when the Park Service tweeted aerial photos of Trump's inauguration ceremony showing a crowd much smaller than the record-breaking crowd that Trump claimed. Trump reportedly phoned Reynolds and asked him to find new pictures.[1][6] Reynolds helped announce new national historical landmarks including the New York State Canal System and the Eldean Covered Bridge.[7][8] In June 2017, Reynolds reversed an Obama administration policy that had discouraged sales of bottled water at the parks.[9] Later parks jobsOn January 24, 2018, Reynolds was moved out of the top parks job to lead Yosemite National Park in California. He led a staff of 800 there.[1] On October 23, 2019, Reynolds was appointed as the National Park Service's regional director of the Department of the Interior Lower Colorado Basin, Upper Colorado Basin, and Arkansas-Rio Grande-Texas-Gulf regions. In this role he oversees 89 parks in nine states.[3] See alsoReferences
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