Official who improperly helped Redskins owner cut down trees picked as National Park Service deputy
First Trump goes after our National Monuments--Now he goes after our National Parks!
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Official who improperly helped Redskins owner cut down trees picked as National Park Service deputy director
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By Darryl Fears January 6 at 8:00 AM
A branch of the Potomac River at the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historic Park in Maryland. (Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA)
A former National Park Service official who improperly helped Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder cut down more than 130 trees to improve a river view at his Potomac, Md., estate has been chosen by the Trump administration to be one of the agency’s highest-ranking leaders.
According to an internal email circulated at the Department of the Interior, P. Daniel Smith will assume the agency’s deputy director position on Monday. He is expected to replace acting director Mike Reynolds, whose 300-day term has expired.
The selection was first reported by National Parks Traveler. Interior and the Park Service did not respond Friday to multiple requests for a comment. “We have a new political appointee,” Lori K. Mashburn, Interior’s White House liaison, announced in the email obtained by The Washington Post. “Dan should be a familiar face at NPS. He most recently served as Superintendent of Colonial National Historical Park.”
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Before that superintendent’s role, Smith was a special assistant to the Park Service director. And it was in that position that he intervened in 2004 to help Snyder remove the trees from a hillside between his estate and the C&O Canal and plant saplings to improve Snyder’s view of the Potomac River...................................................
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