00:00:05:00 - 00:00:19:19 Unknown Lisa I'd like to turn back to you personally, you know, I know also as an administrator that I can never take my background out of me. I'm an environmental educator, so education is always kind of front and center for me as an administrator. 00:00:20:05 - 00:00:39:03 Unknown I wonder for you, as a resource manager, as a wildlife biologist, you have a doctorate from The Ohio State University, says the University of Michigan grad, so we have a nice balance here, that you still in your heart are always going to be a biologist, and I think that's a wonderful skill set for superintendent. 00:00:39:10 - 00:01:00:03 Unknown I wonder if you could reflect on that a little bit. And you know what, from a natural resource perspective, makes this park so special? I have a lot to say about that because, you know, in my background, you know, my whole career was based upon kind 00:01:00:03 - 00:01:28:20 Unknown of ecology and looking at how animals use the landscape. So I looked at things from a landscape and I worked primarily with birds, migratory birds, birds that went between the U.S. and Central and South America. So every place along that migratory route is a critical place to be for the life, for the survival of a migratory bird 00:01:28:20 - 00:01:53:15 Unknown species. So Cuyahoga Valley National Park is an amazing green space protected area of natural habitat intertwined with the metro parks and other natural areas through this winding, you know, landscape of residential areas and other land uses, agricultural areas. 00:01:54:01 - 00:02:23:09 Unknown So it's a really nice place to do complex sort of prediction and also complex resource management balancing it with public use. That is the key for me. My whole career was based pretty much on public protected areas and balancing it. And, you know, in the tropics, they have a very different model for national parks 00:02:25:09 - 00:02:49:19 Unknown , and they create buffer zones around those national parks where you can have sort of, you know, something that is more maybe more traditionally used areas that are on the boundaries of a preserve. But then the the human population can continue to get that value out of the natural area without having so much of an impact on the 00:02:49:19 - 00:03:04:17 Unknown interior of the preserve and the wildlife or, you know, the natural resources that are in there. We also have to balance not only the natural resources, but the cultural resources. We have very significant cultural resources. We have historic structures. 00:03:04:19 - 00:03:27:09 Unknown We have the canal itself, Ohio & Erie Canal. We have the Valley Railway—historic districts both—and they run through those natural resources. So and then so do all the people. So the people have to be able to utilize this resource as well and to gain the experience from those resources while not impacting the resources. 00:03:27:22 - 00:03:49:18 Unknown That is a tremendous challenge and a fun one to actually deal with. It kind of makes you crazy sometimes, but that is what makes this a rewarding place to work because you do have those that balancing act and that is really what my career was based on coming from one angle and now coming from a different 00:03:49:18 - 00:03:55:15 Unknown angle of balancing all those things for human as well as resource protection.