{"id":2863,"date":"2011-12-14T06:06:17","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T14:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/?p=2863"},"modified":"2011-12-14T10:42:21","modified_gmt":"2011-12-14T18:42:21","slug":"smmnra-superintendent-smeck-to-leave-for-new-yosemite-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/2011\/12\/14\/smmnra-superintendent-smeck-to-leave-for-new-yosemite-position\/","title":{"rendered":"SMMNRA Superintendent Smeck to Leave for New Yosemite Position"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/NCRO-11-02-07-Woody-Smeck.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2865\" style=\"border-image: initial; border-width: 1px; border-color: black; border-style: solid; margin: 5px;\" title=\"Woody Smeck\" src=\"http:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/NCRO-11-02-07-Woody-Smeck.jpg\" alt=\"Woody Smeck, Santa Monica Mountains\" width=\"220\" height=\"237\" \/><\/a>CORBA congratulates Woody Smeck, Superintendent of the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (SMMNRA) on his new appointment.\u00a0 He&#8217;s leaving on March 30 to become Deputy Superintendent at Yosemite National Park.\u00a0 Woody came to the SMMNRA as a landscape architect in 1990.\u00a0 He worked his way up and was appointed Superintendent in 2001.\u00a0 During his tenure, the SMMNRA grew in stature in the National Park system.\u00a0 Woody helped politicians understand the importance of National Parks near developed urban areas.\u00a0 He helped foster interagency coordination and cooperation with the California Department of Parks and Recreation, the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy, the Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority, and other agencies in the SMMNRA.\u00a0 He helped keep park programs on track in difficult budgetary times.<\/p>\n<p>Most important to the mountain bike community, Woody was always\u00a0accessible, fair, and honest in his dealings with us.\u00a0 There is more mountain bike access on NPS land in the SMMNRA than anywhere else in the country.\u00a0 Woody has been clear that responsible mountain biking is manageable on public lands and has expressed that view to his NPS peers.\u00a0 We owe him a huge debt of gratitude.<\/p>\n<p>Woody has been a pleasure to work with and we&#8217;ll miss him.\u00a0 Our loss is Yosemite&#8217;s gain.\u00a0 A search is underway for a new NPS Superintendent in the SMMNRA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CORBA congratulates Woody Smeck, Superintendent of the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (SMMNRA) on his new appointment.\u00a0 He&#8217;s leaving on March 30 to become Deputy Superintendent at Yosemite National Park.\u00a0 Woody came to the SMMNRA as a landscape architect in 1990.\u00a0 He worked his way up and was appointed Superintendent in 2001.\u00a0 During his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,29,9,14],"tags":[56,114,346],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2863"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2863"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2880,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2863\/revisions\/2880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}