As a Park Planning Fellow at the Midwest Regional Office (MWRO), I work in a BIG building with many offices and a lot of people with different background experiences. On my first day, my Supervisor/Mentor, Aleks Pitt, presented me to most of the personnel from the building, and I was just amazed by all the positions you can find inside the National Park Service (NPS). There were a LOT of names and different roles, and I struggled at the beginning to remember them all, but a week later… I still was struggling with that! Then, following this line, one of them told me: “The NPS is like a city. Cities need planners, architects, economists, lawyers, administrative workers, field workers, etc. If the city is big, you will need more extensive personnel to work with it; if the city is small, you don’t need much personnel to manage it. That same situation happens with the NPS, and that’s why you are looking at all these roles. Look at the regional office equal to the big city”. Now I know I will never entirely learn all the positions inside the NPS, not even mention inside the Department of Interior. But at least now I have an idea of how diverse this agency can be.
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