Retiring Blue Ridge Parkway superintendent reflects on 37 years with the National Park Service

Retiring Blue Ridge Parkway superintendent reflects on 37 years with the National Park Service

Posted by on Jun 30, 2017 @ 11:44 am in Conservation | 0 comments | Last modified: June 30, 2017

Mark Woods will retire as superintendent of the Blue Ridge Parkway on July 3, 2017, but on July 4 he’ll don the flathat one last time as grand marshal of the Lake Junaluska Fourth of July Parade. Woods was still in college when he started working for the Park Service, knowing he wanted to do some type of conservation work but not exactly sure what form that would take....

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