Interim chief named at park
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A veteran National Park administrator will assume the top post at Yosemite National Park on an interim basis early next year while the incoming Obama administration searches for a new superintendent, officials at the park announced Monday.
David Uberuaga, the superintendent at Mount Rainier National Park in Washington state, will move to Yosemite until a permanent replacement is named.
He replaces Mike Tollefson, who resigned as Yosemite superintendent to assume the head job next month at the Yosemite Fund.
The fund is a San Francisco-based nonprofit organization that helps finance projects at the park.
Among Uberuaga’s accomplishments at Rainier have been the rehabilitation of the historic Paradise Inn and completion of a new park visitor center.
Uberuaga’s lieutenant at Rainier will run that park in his absence.
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