New Chief Ranger At Bighorn Canyon
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Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area will have a new Chief Ranger as of June 20! Kevin Tillman, currently working for Big Bend National Park as the Law Enforcement Specialist accepted the Chief Ranger position and will be moving to Fort Smith during the week of June 20. Kevin has been a National Park Service employee as a Visitor and Resource Protection Ranger for the past 18 years. He began his career as a seasonal employee at Yosemite and Grand Canyon and has worked as a permanent employee at Fort Laramie NHS, Delaware Water Gap NRA, Organ Pipe Cactus NM, Joshua Tree NP, and Chattahoochee River NRA. For the past four years he has been the West District Ranger and Law Enforcement Specialist at Big Bend NP. His wife; Christiann Tillman, has been an employee at Big Bend NP for the past three years, first as a Volunteer-in-Park and currently as a permanent employee where she works as a Visitor Use Assistant and Supply Technician in Administration. Kevin and Christiann have been married for seventeen years and have three boys; Clayton, Adam and Cole who will be attending school in Fort Smith and Hardin. Kevin will maintain an office at the administrative office in Fort Smith, MT and he may be reached by phone at 406-666-3316. |
Did You Know?
Fort C.F. Smith, was the most isolated of the posts which guarded the Bozeman Trail. Active from August 1866 to July 1868, it was under constant threat from the Sioux and Northern Cheyenne tribes during Red Cloud’s War. The U.S. government was forced to abandon the fort and trail. Some historians have called this conflict, “the first war the United States ever lost.” More...