DENVER—A former Colorado National Monument park ranger is returning to become the superintendent there.
The National Park Service said Friday that Lisa Eckert will assume her new duties in mid-February.
Eckert is currently superintendent at the National Park Service Horace M. Albright Training Center at the south rim of the Grand Canyon in Arizona. She has previously served as the superintendent at Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site in North Dakota, Devils Tower National Monument in Wyoming, and the urban environment at Gateway National Recreation Area’s Jamaica Bay Unit in New Your City. She also served as acting superintendent at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Arizona.
She was a park ranger at Colorado National Monument in the mid-1980s.
Former Colorado National Monument Superintendent Joan Anzelmo retired last year.
