| Fully assembled as of May 2006,
the primary goal of the PA Wilds Recreation Team
is to implement the recommendations of the
Recreation Plan for the State Parks and State
Forests in the Pennsylvania Wilds in order
to improve the delivery of outdoor recreation
across all DCNR lands in the PA Wilds region.
Among the PA Wilds Recreation Team’s many
objectives are to provide assistance to parks
and forests on specialized recreation issues
such as trail design, signage, interpretation,
recreation programming and public information.
The team will work to improve and expand
recreational opportunities in the PA Wilds by
coordinating the enhancement of visitor services
and coordinating partnerships with other
agencies, organizations, businesses, and
landowners.
The Recreation Team is made up of five
individuals selected from DCNR staff. Three of
these five members come to the PA Wilds
Recreation Team from DCNR’s Bureau of State
Parks while two of the members are on board
through DCNR’s Bureau of Forestry.
Team leader, Dana Crisp,
holds a bachelor’s degree in park and recreation
administration and program management from
Michigan State University. She began her career
with the Bureau of State Parks in 1994 as an
assistant park manager at Nockamixon. She was
named Sizerville State Park Manager in April
1997, and became leader of the PA Wilds
Recreation Team in 2005 with her promotion to
the newly created position of assistant regional
manager.
Tom Hanes began his career
with the Bureau of Forestry in 1989 as an
intern. After graduating from Penn State in
1992, he worked in the private sector before
resuming employment with the Bureau of Forestry
in the Susquehannock State Forest. He later
transferred to Elk State Forest and in February
of 2004, he was promoted to assistant district
forester in the Sproul State Forest.
Jim Hyland has been working
for DCNR since 1998, when he was hired as a
recreation forester in the Tiadaghton State
Forest. He was promoted to assistant district
forester in 2004, and recently joined the PA
Wilds Recreation Team as a Program Specialist.
Jim has a B.S. in Forest Science from Penn
State.
Tim Morey started his career
with state parks at 15 years of age as a
lifeguard and lifeguard supervisor at Lyman Run
State Park for 5 summer seasons. After
graduating from Lycoming College, Tim began work
at Leonard Harrison State Park, providing a
variety of visitor services and programming.
Currently he is an environmental education
specialist at Lyman Run and Cherry Springs State
Parks and a member of the PA Wilds Recreation
Team.
Eric Rensel obtained his
B.A. from Penn State and then began his career
with the Bureau of State Parks in 1989 as an
environmental interpretive technician at Parker
Dam State Park. He was reclassified as an EES in
the mid-1990s, and has now taken on the
challenge of the PA Wilds Recreation Team.
Contact Dana Crisp at
rcrisp@state.pa.us for more information on
the PA Wilds Recreation Team. |
