YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK
MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS – Superintendent Cam Sholly announced the selection of Sarah Davis, a 20-year National Park Service veteran, as the new chief of Resource and Visitor Protection. Davis will be the park’s 18th chief ranger in the more than 100 years it has been managed by the NPS and she is the first female to serve in the position
Davis will
oversee more than 275 employees in Yellowstone’s Resource and Visitor
Protection division who perform law enforcement and emergency medical services,
search and rescue, wildland and structural fire, dispatch, fee collection,
special use permitting, trails, corrals, and backcountry operations.
“Sarah is an
outstanding leader with a track record of high performance, strategic thinking
and collaboration,” Sholly said. “We’re lucky to have her join the Yellowstone
team.”
Davis has
been the chief ranger at Natchez Trace Parkway since 2012. In 2016 she received
the first Southeast Region Excellence Award for professional leadership among
chief rangers.
Previously,
Davis served as the acting superintendent at Vicksburg and Guilford Courthouse
National Military Parks, NPS branch chief of law enforcement operations, NPS
acting deputy chief of operations and policy, and deputy chief ranger at
Harpers Ferry National Historical Park. She also held a wide range of
assignments at Manassas National Battlefield Park, Independence National
Historic Park, Assateague Island National Seashore and Blue Ridge Parkway.
“It is an
honor and privilege to be selected for this position,” said Davis.
“I’m excited to join the Yellowstone team, and work together to protect
our first national park and its visitors, and ensure the health, safety, and
wellness of our employees.”
A native of
Lexington, North Carolina, Davis has a Bachelor of Arts in History from Denison
University in Granville, Ohio, and graduated from the Federal Bureau of
Investigations National Academy in 2013.
She and her
two dogs, Eleanor Roosevelt and Ginny, will settle in Yellowstone by
mid-December.
