April 5, 2024 @ 3:30 p.m. MT | Distinguished Alumnus
About the Lecture:
My presentation will highlight three projects spanning my 30-year career in the National Park Service. Each project involves aspects of indigenous knowledge, science, and rational planning (endangered species management in Hawaii, river restoration at Olympic National Park, and subsistence management national parks in the Arctic region). I'll highlight the resulting exigent questions of policy and federal land management that are driven by our rapidly changing climate. I'll close with personal observations and lessons learned.
Speaker Bio:
M. Sarah Creachbaum currently serves as the regional director for the National Park Service Alaska Region in Anchorage, Alaska. Creachbaum has served as a national park superintendent since 2006, first at War in the Pacific National Historical Park in Guam, then at Haleakala National Park, and at Olympic National Park, where she led the Elwha River Restoration Project, the largest dam removal and river restoration in the United States. She has also served in numerous temporary assignments including Superintendent of Grand Canyon National Park, acting Deputy Regional Director for the Pacific West Region, and Senior Advisor, Alaska Region for the US Fish and Wildlife Service.
In addition to graduating from the Senior Executive Service Candidate Development Program in 2017, she has completed training with the Federal Executive Institute, served as the Chairperson for the NPS National Wilderness Stewardship Council, and was awarded the NPS Bevinetto Fellowship, an honor established by Congress to improve mutual understanding and cooperation between the NPS and Congress. Sarah’s 30-year professional career with the National Park Service has taken her across the world, from Svalbard, Norway to Kalimantan, Indonesia. Creachbaum received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Arizona and a Master of Landscape Architecture from Utah State University in 1995. Sarah currently lives in Anchorage, Alaska where she serves as the director for the NPS Alaska Region.
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