If Dan Wenk had been fired during his first year in a permanent job with the National Park Service, the agency would’ve lost his many later accomplishments. He would not have gone on to help ...

The former superintendents of Yellowstone, Rushmore, Badlands national parks say DOGE wiped out a generation of leaders.

The feeder groups are being devastated in terms of future leaders of an organization,” — former Yellowstone Superintendent Dan Wenk.

Seth is editor-in-chief of South Dakota Searchlight. He was previously a supervising senior producer for South Dakota Public ...

But in the decades since, much has changed. Yellowstone Superintendent Dan Wenk summed up today’s more expansive view in a recent interview: “Rather than manipulating wildlife to do what we ...

“There was probably not a year that went by where someone was not, at a minimum, burned badly,” Dan Wenk, who served as superintendent of Yellowstone National Park from 2011 to 2019, said in ...