New superintendent named to lead Congaree National Park
October 1, 2018
The National Park Service (NPS) has selected K. Lynn Berry as the next superintendent to lead Congaree National Park. Berry currently serves as the Chief of Community Assistance and Partnerships for the NPS National Capital Region. She will assume her new duties at Congaree on November 11.
Berry joined the NPS in 2010 and has served as the National Heritage Area program manager, Southeast Region centennial coordinator, and acting superintendent of DeSoto National Memorial. Previously she worked in federal and state government, as well as private consulting. She has a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in cultural anthropology and a master’s degree in city and regional planning.
“I very much look forward to supporting the team at Congaree in connecting with our communities and visitors and preserving the magnificent old growth bottomland forest,” said Berry. “The big trees, the enriched floodplain, and outstanding waters of the park are known to many as national treasures. I share the awe that visitors experience as they enter the wilderness, impressed by biodiversity, and reverential in the presence of those champion trees.”
Berry, a native of Arkansas, attended the University of Notre Dame before working across the country in Chicago, Florida, Denver, Albuquerque, Atlanta, and Washington D.C. She loves to travel and has toured many African, Asian, European, Central-, South- and North American countries. She’s an avid paddling enthusiast and is excited to experience the Congaree and Wateree Rivers and Cedar Creek. Berry and her partner Lynn-Margaret look forward to exploring the South Carolina Midlands.
For more information about Congaree National Park, please visit the park website at https://www.nps.gov/cong.
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