WYOMING – According to an exclusive interview with outgoing Yellowstone superintendent Dan Wenk obtained by Wyoming Public Radio, the super’s departure is anything but amicable.
Wenk says his 43 years with the National Park Service essentially mean nothing to the Trump Administration and he feels he is being pushed out. In fact, he used the word “abused” when referring to his perception of how he is being treated by his boss Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke.
Wenk speculates his management of the nation’s first national park has been at odds with the new administration particularly concerning Wenk’s handling of increased visitation and his ideas to protect and preserve the park by perhaps considering limitations and caps.
Wenk’s handling of bison—shipping bison to reservations in Montana—has also ruffled the feathers of state ranchers there where Zinke once served as a US House Rep.
