Yellowstone environmental protection specialist to speak at Baxter Hotel tonight
Jim Evanoff, environmental protection specialist for Yellowstone National Park, will present a discussion entitled “Sustaining Yellowstone National Park: A 138 Year Journey” this evening in the upstairs ballroom of the Baxter Hotel in downtown Bozeman. The talk will focus on collaboration between public and private entities to achieve success with environmental initiatives.
Evanoff has been employed by the National Park Service for 26 years. His career began in the Curecanti National Recreation area of Colorado were he helped to establish park infrastructure. He then worked in Grand Teton National Park where he focused efforts on historical preservation of more than 100 park structures. Evanoff has also worked at Arches National Park in southern Utah and Mt. Rushmore in South Dakota where he work to preserve the monument’s famous faces.
Evanoff came to Yellowstone in 1988 and has been involved with wolf reintroduction and many of the park’s “green” initiatives. He currently manages the park’s environmental programs, working in conjunction with other National Parks on environmental stewardship intiatives.
“Sustaining Yellowstone National Park: A 138 Year Journey” will begin at 7 p.m. this evening, March 16, 2010, and is being organized by the Sierra Club. The discussion is free and open to the public.
For more information, call Monica Fella at 582-8365 or e-mail monica.fella@sierraclub.org.
His career has involved working in four other National Parks before coming to Yellowstone in 1988. Starting in Curecanti National Recreation area, Colorado, Evanoff was instrumental in developing the infrastructure for this newly acquired Park unit. Next he moved to Grand Teton National Park and was responsible for preservation of more than 100 historic structures within the park.After working there for three years, he transferred to Arches National Park in southern Utah. The next move was to Mt. Rushmore in the Black Hills of South Dakota, where his responsibilities included the preservation maintenance of the famous four faces. Currently in Yellowstone, Jim is the Environmental Protection Specialist for the Park. His work experiences have varied from assisting in wolf reintroduction to spearheading many of the Park’s “greening initiatives”.
Jim manages all of Yellowstone’s environmental programs and provides guidance to many other national parks for achieving sound environmental stewardship. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Wisconsin.
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