A retired Senior Executive with the US National Park Service, Dave was superintendent at Yosemite, Glacier, and Mammoth Cave national parks, deputy at Great Smoky Mountains, and Chief of Policy at the Washington headquarters.

As a National Park Ranger at Glacier, he conducted research on visitor attitudes toward grizzly bears for a Master’s thesis and was District Ranger at Old Faithful in Yellowstone when tapped as the first superintendent at Yukon-Charley Rivers in Alaska.

Dave started his career as a commissioned US Army officer in the Corps of Engineers where he designed campgrounds and recreation areas and led park and resource planning for reservoirs and surrounding lands on Corps reservoirs across Texas. Later, he planned for parks, wild rivers, wilderness, and archeological resources in northern Alaska for the Bureau of Land Management including new park areas in the Gates of the Arctic, along the Pipeline Corridor and at historic Ft. Egbert in Eagle, Alaska.

He has a B.S. in parks and recreation from Southern Illinois University, an M.S. in natural resource management from Michigan State, and is a graduate of the Northwestern University Kellogg Graduate School of Management’s Advanced Executive Program.

Dave lives in Missoula, Montana (USA) where he grows grapes for homemade wine, plays the guitar, and paints a variety of subjects in oils and watercolor.