JEMEZ SPRINGS, N.M. (AP) - A policy adviser with the U.S. Interior Department has been selected as the next executive director of the trust that manages the Valles Caldera National Preserve.
The trust announced the appointment of Jorge Silva-Banuelos on Wednesday. He was selected from a field of two dozen applicants who were vying for the position.
Silva-Banuelos has spent the last decade working in Washington, D.C. For eight years, he worked for then-U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman and was later a staff member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
He has worked as an adviser for the assistant secretary for fish and wildlife and parks at the Interior Department for the last two years.
Silva-Banuelos will start his new job in July.
The preserve encompasses 89,000 acres in northern New Mexico’s Jemez Mountains.
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