Concurrent Session II
- Front and
Center: Transportation in Our National Parks
Tuesday, May 20 3:30pm
 Gary Danczyk
is the Chief of Planning and Project Management
at Grand Teton National Park. He
recently completed his term as Project Manager for mitigation on the
Going-to-the-Sun Road project.
Mitigation included a federal, state and local partnership operated
transit
system, new transit center, an Intelligent Transportation System and
other
supporting projects. The system achieved
budget and schedule goals, while averaging over 2000 riders per day and
132,000
in the 60 day initial season.
Prior to the National Park Service, Gary
served as a U.S. Army engineer and special projects officer.
He led combat engineer units and completed
some very unique assignments during his career.
Some highlights include commanding the oldest engineer company in the
Army, Arctic engineering in Alaska,
the Airborne Laser program during the first Gulf War, the Force 21
program to
introduce the military to the world-wide-web, crisis response
operations in the
Balkans, and multi-national work with many European nations.
He has a BS in Engineering from the US
Military Academy, a MS in Physics from the US Naval Postgraduate School
and is
a registered Professional Engineer in Montana.
He views his new career as continuing to defend the
nation. Preserving and enhancing the irreplaceable
resources in our national parks for the enjoyment of this and future
generations is surely worth defending. He
and his family, including four children are privileged to be living and
growing
in the west after 14 moves during a 25 year career, although the moves
might
not quite have stopped yet.
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