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I spent seven years at tour shack and

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worked at Horshack as a park ranger ,

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worked my way up in grade and then I

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wanted an opportunity to have more

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roles and responsibilities . Um and in

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an area that offered um more recreation

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and maybe not more recreation , but

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more highly visible recreation . So I

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applied for a position at Lucky Peak as

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a senior park ranger and was selected

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for that . And ultimately I spent 15

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years at Lucky Peak . I was the senior

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park ranger and then I became the park

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manager . And when Dave Brownell

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retired after 35 years S . C . O . P .

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M . I was selected as the OPM there and

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served in that capacity for seven years .

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I think my favorite part about being at

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Lucky Peak was two things really . The

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first one probably was just educating

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the public and reminding them that the

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most important thing that Lucky Peak

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did was protect the cities below and

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the people below from flooding . So

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that was certainly the most important

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thing and remains the most important

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thing that Lucky Peak does . The most

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highly viz the thing that they do is

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offer recreation to nearly a million

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visitors a year . And that's a

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very diverse group of users trying to

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manage the expectations of folks who

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want hiking and biking and boating and

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no boating and swimming and just every

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type of recreation that is available

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there . So that was a balance to seek

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that . But again , I think just trying

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to educate people and remind them that

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Lucky Peak was originally put in place .

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The mission that Congress gave the core

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was to build flood protection for the

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cities below , and then once the lake

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was created and the dam held back the

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lake , then recreation certainly became

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the most visible and the most widely

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used in that area . Probably the most

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inspirational thing I found about

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working for the Corps of Engineers is

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the people and their passion for the

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work that they do . Um , the core

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offers so many job opportunities for

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such a wide variety of disciplines and

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the ability to continue to grow in your

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job , the ability to continue to

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educate yourself and learn more about

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the agency and opportunities for for

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advancing your career . So those were

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really important to me .