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Special Event
Event
Opening Address by Superintendent Jorge Silva-Bañuelos
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Fee:
Free.Location: LAT/LONG: 35.864390, -106.518957
This presentation takes place in the Ranger Station, located about 4 miles down Valles Caldera National Preserve's entrance road.
Dates & Times
Date:
Saturday, October 5, 2024
Time:
11:00 AM
Duration:
1 hour
Type of Event
Management/Planning
Talk
Description
Kick off Valles Caldera Fall Fiesta with a public address by Jorge Silva-Bañuelos, superintendent of Valles Caldera National Preserve! This presentation will take place at Valles Caldera's Ranger Station at 11:00 am on Saturday, October 5.
Jorge Silva-Bañuelos is a native New Mexican and 19-year federal employee. Before his appointment as superintendent, he served as executive director for the Valles Caldera Trust where he was responsible for day-to-day administration and management of Valles Caldera National Preserve.
Before coming to the Valles Caldera Trust, Silva-Bañuelos was special assistant to the assistant secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks at the Department of the Interior (DOI) (2012-2014). In that role, he gave policy guidance on operations, management and budgets of the NPS and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. He also worked on several high-profile issues for the DOI, including Interior’s bison conservation initiative, the DOI working group on Indian water rights settlements, and Interior’s recommendation to the White House to designate the Río Grande del Norte National Monument in northern New Mexico.
Silva-Bañuelos previously served on the staff of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee (2007-2012), advising Chairman U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) on public lands and natural resource policy.
Silva-Bañuelos earned a bachelor’s degree in international relations and Spanish from the University of San Diego. In 2001 he completed a semester of intensive language and cultural immersion studies at Nanzan University in Nagoya, Japan. He also is a graduate of the inaugural class of the President’s Leadership Workshop, a six-month development program sponsored by the White House.
For a detailed schedule of events for Valles Caldera Fall Fiesta, check out https://www.nps.gov/vall/planyourvisit/fall-fiesta.htm.
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