Like university presidents and major league baseball players, the men and women who supervise America's national parks and monuments are a mobile group.

Next month, a new superintendent is headed for Dinosaur National Monument, which straddles the boundaries of Utah and Colorado.White Sands National Monument Superintendent Dennis Ditmanson - a longtime National Parks manager - will be leaving the desert at Alamogordo, N.M., to take the helm at Dinosaur National Monument.

Ditmanson has 20 years of national park experience, including spending eight years supervising the White Sands and three years directing Custer Battlefield National Monument.

"Dennis is just the right person to lead the Dinosaur staff," said John Cook, intermountain regional director of the National Parks Service. "His problem-solving skills and his strength in community relations pushed him to the top of a very impressive list of candidates."

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Ditmanson said he wants to reach out to the local community at Dinosaur, like he did at White Sands.

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