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Mary Riddle, Chief of Planning and Compliance, Glacier Park, mary_riddle@nps.gov 

Mary Riddle, is Chief of Planning and Compliance at Glacier Park. She has been at Glacier for 25 years and has over 36 years with the National Park Service. She began her career at North Cascades National Park in Washington as a seasonal interpreter and backcountry law enforcement ranger; however most of her career has been in planning and environmental compliance. She has worked on planning, design and construction projects throughout the National Park System including, the Appalachian Trail, North Cascades NP, Big Cypress, Acadia, Petroglyph NP, Yosemite, Carlsbad Caverns, Antietam National Battlefield, New River Gorge, Mount Rainer, Pecos National Historic Site, Jean LaFitte in New Orleans, and Great Smoky Mountains National Park. She led the planning effort for Glacier’s General Management Plan the Commercial Services Plan and the Going-to-the-Sun Road Rehabilitation project.  She serves on the US National Park Service Wild and Scenic River Steering Committee. She has been involved with the Crown Managers Partnership since 2001 and represents Glacier NP. She has been co-chair since 2015.  She has also been involved with other large landscape efforts within the Department of Interior and the National Park Service, including Connected Conservation, Resilient Lands and Waters, America’s Great Outdoors, and the Landscape Conservation Cooperatives. She is married and has 2 children and 2 grandchildren.