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Dan Wenk
Superintendent, Mount Rushmore National Memorial
National Park ServiceDan Wenk joined the National Park Service in 1975 as a Landscape Architect at the Denver Service Center. Subsequent assignments included park landscape architect for Yellowstone National Park in 1979 with responsibilities for the planning and development aspects of the park. He was named Superintendent of Mount Rushmore National Memorial in 1985.
As Superintendent of Mount Rushmore he developed a public/private partnership with the Mount Rushmore National Memorial Society to raise over $50 million in non-federal funds for the preservation of the sculpture and the redevelopment of visitor facilities at the Memorial. This project was completed in July of 1998.
In 1995 he returned to the Denver Service Center for nine months as Acting Team Manager for the Rocky Mountain, Midwest and Southwest Regions of the National Park System, with responsibility for the planning design and construction programs for those three regions.
While Superintendent of Mount Rushmore was named Program Manager for the National Parks Pass authorized by Congress in October of 1998. In January of 1999 he was named Co-Chair of the National Park Service General Conference to be held in September of 2000.
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