October 19, 2009, 4:03 pm
Paige Baker, superintendent at Badlands National Park, announced
he is retiring from the National Park Service at the end of the
year. Baker has served at the park for five years.
While at the park, he North Dakota-native was instrumental in
developing the South Unit General Management Plan, organized a
Friends Group for Badlands National Park, promoted and built
relationships with the neighbors and partners, and directed the
Common Ground Project for high school students, according to a news
release from the NPS.
Before coming to the Badlands, he was superintendent at Casa
Grande Ruins in Arizona. He also served as superintendent of the
Bureau of Indian Affairs, director of extension with the University
of Minnesota and worked with the Philip-Stokes Foundation in New
York and Washington, D.C.
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