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Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Cam Sholly speaks in 2019 at the reopening of Mammoth Hotel following extensive renovations at the historic property. (Yellowstone Gate file photo by Ruffin Prevost)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

CODY, Wyo. \u2014 As Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Cam Sholly marks his fifth anniversary at the park, he is garnering praise from some leaders in gateway communities for his ability to manage under difficult circumstances\u2014from the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 to the devastating floods in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Park County Commissioner Lee Livingston said Sholly has done the best job of any superintendent he could recall at partnering with Cody and other gateway communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCam hit the ground running five years ago and hasn\u2019t slowed down,\u201d said Livingston, who has spent time with Sholly in the remote Thorofare region that extends into Yellowstone\u2019s southeastern corner. \u201cHe is very sensitive to the importance of the Yellowstone gateway communities, and has a great relationship with Park County. Park County, the state of Wyoming and our nation as a whole are very fortunate to have Cam at the helm in Yellowstone Park.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sholly recently spoke with the Wyoming Truth<\/em> about some of the challenges he has faced and what\u2019s ahead in the future. What follows are excerpts from the conversation, edited for length and clarity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Cam Sholly began his tenure in the park in October 2018. (Courtesy photo from National Park Service)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

There has been some news coverage lately about how expensive it can be to get a hotel room in Yellowstone. Are you concerned that a hotel stay in the park seems out of reach for many working class Americans? Is that something you can control or influence?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sholly: <\/strong>I think the Best Western in Cody is regularly over $350. I see Motel 6 in Jackson at $300-something. I\u2019m not saying that\u2019s good, necessarily. But if you look at the general prices of the gateway community AirBnBs, VRBOs, hotel rooms \u2014 especially peak season \u2014 you\u2019re not getting any bargains. You can go to Bozeman [Montana] in July or August and it\u2019s pretty hard to find hotel rates under $200-plus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the flip side, people are getting into the park for $2.89 cents per person per day. So there\u2019s still a considerable amount of affordable\u2014I mean, it depends on your idea of what affordable is. But if you look at Glacier, you look at Yosemite or Grand Canyon or Yellowstone, it\u2019s not just more expensive in the parks. It\u2019s just as expensive out of the parks. . . .  So I don\u2019t know what the exact right solution is. I don\u2019t know if artificially price-capping hotel rooms is necessarily the right way to go either. But I think it\u2019s a discussion for the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Cam Sholly introduces then-Vice President Mike Pence during a media appearance at Old Faithful. (Yellowstone Gate file photo by Ruffin Prevost)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

For people who live in the area, sometimes it\u2019s easy to take Yellowstone for granted. Are there any routine sights or sounds or experiences that still make you take a breath and pause for a moment to reflect?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sholly: <\/strong>Oh, well, we\u2019re just coming off the [elk] rut here. . . .It\u2019s pretty dramatic, pretty incredible. People can go out and watch wolves in the Lamar Valley and are able to do that year-round. We\u2019ve got some pretty good reports about the economic benefits of wolf watching\u2014$60 to $80 million dollars per year from people who come here to watch wolves. Where else are you going to see that? Where else are you going to see wolves taking down a bison or grizzlies and wolves fighting over a carcass?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think it\u2019s a pretty incredible place. And I do think there are, in some ways, people that live around here and are in this park on a regular basis [for whom] it\u2019s easy sometimes to kind of take it for granted. But I think when you step back and think about how important this place is \u2014 the world\u2019s first national park \u2014 we\u2019ve made tremendous progress. I\u2019m really optimistic about the future and the progress that we can make together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you speak in public, you almost always have high praise for your staff. How would you grade the people you work with over the last five years, and how would you grade yourself on the job you\u2019ve done?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sholly: <\/strong>I\u2019ll let somebody else grade me. I don\u2019t really care too much about that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think we\u2019ve made really good progress, and I think the work the team has done speaks for itself under some of the most challenging conditions imaginable. The team \u2014 no question \u2014 gets an A.  And not just the Park Service team, the partners. You look at these gateways and you think back to COVID and shutting the park down for two months and trying to reopen. And the flood, just overnight\u2014\u201cpoof,\u201d the park is closed, basically. We\u2019ve been through a lot together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, I praise this team because they deserve it in the park. But we don\u2019t do stuff alone here. And the number of ideas that came from the gateways in the last years during COVID or whatever \u2014 about what we should be doing and how we should be doing it \u2014or to try this or to try that. It\u2019s important to recognize that it\u2019s a true, total team effort. There\u2019s a lot of co-dependency in these communities and counties and states about the actions we take here and what their impacts are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m not saying everybody likes me, or everybody agrees with every decision. I know that\u2019s not true. But we\u2019re looking out for each other in many ways. Overall, everybody understands the importance of the priority of protecting this place. But there\u2019s a lot of peripheral impacts that come with that, both good and bad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Cam Sholly has focused on improving historic and substandard employee housing in the park. (Courtesy photo from National Park Service)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Striking that balance is really important. Making good decisions is really important. Being able to explain our decisions \u2014 even if people disagree with them \u2014 is important. And being able to change if we made a decision that\u2019s not right and people point that out. I think we\u2019ve got a track record of: \u201cHey, we tried something and it\u2019s not working. Let\u2019s change course and go a different direction, and be flexible.\u201d I think that that comes with good relationships, and obviously, a strong team here. But also strong partners\u2014both in the park and out of the park\u2014that have helped us succeed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You\u2019ve been doing this for five years. In the Park Service, it\u2019s not necessarily up to you where you end up. But where do you see yourself five years from now?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sholly: <\/strong>I don\u2019t know. [Laughs.] Right now, I\u2019m trying to focus more on trying to do a good job. I\u2019ve done this my whole career. Do a good job in the job you\u2019re in, and good things happen later. I\u2019m not necessarily seeking the next opportunity, per se.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But my time here will come to an end at some point, whether that\u2019s in the next year, or five years, whatever the case is. And my goal is to pass on a park that\u2019s in better condition than when I took management of it. And a park that\u2019s got a good team in place that\u2019s working on and focusing on the right priorities for the future. And giving the next person that comes in the ability to make the shifts that he or she thinks are important.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But hopefully, they will come in and go: \u201cWow, there\u2019s a lot of really good things happening. What\u2019s the role that I need to play to keep that momentum moving in the right direction?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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