Comment:  Our Interior Secretary, like his Chief Executive, looks at serious issues through the eyes of an incompetent manager.  That’s assuming absence of mal intent.  Mal management or incompetent management has produced arbitrary and capricious use of the Endangered Species Act, misuse of the Clean Air Act, rogue rulemaking, passive-aggressive permitting designed to delay or halt economic activity on federal lands.  See Ed Wynn’s video interview below.  Our editorials over the last two years have documented this abuse of power in detail.

One of our respected attorney readers (reformed father and creater of environmental law), Victor John Yannacone, Jr.(Photo), today alerts us to one of the ways Salazar’s management leads to wasteful spending of taxpayer dollars:

 

Another high level civil service job to provide services no one needs and no one should want to spend taxpayer money on providing.

Not just because knowledge of climate models (see highlighted lines in the job posting) is of little value to the people of the United States for whose benefits the National Parks exist or because "cultural resource management and adaptation" is not a proper part of the National Park Service mission, but because the National Park Service bureaucracy headquarters in Washington does not need any more GS 13/14 bureaucrats; the NPS needs park rangers and people in the National Parks and at the National Monuments to properly interpret their place in American History and their intrinsic position in maintaining the American Way of Life.

 
Victor John Yannacone, jr., Attorney
YANNACONE & YANNACONE, pc
vyannacone@YannaLaw.com
(US 01) 631-475-0231

Source: National Park Service

Job Title: Interdisciplinary (Climate Change Adaptation Coordinator – Cultural Resources)

Department: Department Of The Interior

Agency: National Park Service

Job Announcement Number: NPSWASO-HQ-11-434393

SALARY RANGE:  $89,033.00 – $136,771.00 /year
OPEN PERIOD:  Friday, February 04, 2011 to Thursday, February 17, 2011
SERIES & GRADE:  GS-0101-13/14
POSITION INFORMATION:  Full Time Career/Career Conditional
PROMOTION POTENTIAL:  14
DUTY LOCATIONS:  1 vacancy – Washington DC Metro Area, DC
WHO MAY BE CONSIDERED:  This announcement is open to all U.S. Citizens.
JOB SUMMARY:

Experience your America and build a fulfilling career by joining the National Park Service.  Become a part of our mission to unite the past, our cultures and our special places, to establish important connections to the present and build a rich and lasting legacy for future generations.

The National Park Service is seeking an energetic professional individual to serve as the Cultural Resources Climate Change Adaptation Coordinator.  The position is located in Washington, DC and provides cultural resource management assistance to park units, and provides leadership and guidance to stakeholders in the cultural resource management and historic preservation communities nationwide on issues relating to climate change. Candidates interested in this position should have an in depth knowledge of climate change science either as a consumer or generator of climate change data and models to support decisions in cultural resource management and adaptation.