[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 5 (Tuesday, January 25, 2005)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E59-E60]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 RETIREMENT TRIBUTE TO GLENN R. FULLER

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                           HON. GEORGE MILLER

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, January 25, 2005

  Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to 
recognize Superintendent Glenn R. Fuller who has retired after thirty-
two years of service in the National Park Service.
  During his career Glenn R. Fuller worked in several national parks 
including Grand Canyon National Park as a back-country district ranger 
doing search and rescue; Cape Cod National Seashore as a Park Ranger; 
Rocky Mountain National Park as a Park Technician; Golden Gate National 
Recreation Area as a Park Ranger; and Site Manager at Muir Woods 
National Park. He is also a retired law enforcement officer.
  Glenn became Park Superintendent at Eugene O'Neill National Historic 
Site in November 1993. In December 2001, he was promoted to 
Superintendent of O'Neill NHS, John Muir National Historic Site, and 
Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial.
  Glenn's accomplishments are many and varied including the following:
  Successfully negotiating after fourteen years a settlement agreement 
with the Kuss Road Homeowners allowing access to Eugene O'Neill NHS. 
The agreement was signed in 1994.
  Developing the treatment plan for the Cultural Landscape Report at 
Eugene O'Neill NHS. This included installation of a deer fence, new 
irrigation system and removal of hazardous and non-historic trees and 
shrubs.
  Contracting in 2000 with a commercial video company to produce a 
video tour of areas in the Tao House that are not accessible to 
wheelchair users.
  Securing funding and requesting a Site Assessment for Livestock Pond 
Wetland Restoration at Eugene O'Neill NHS.
  Collaborating with Contra Costa County, Friends of Alhambra Creek, 
and neighbors on the Strenzel Lane Erosion and Sediment Reduction 
Projects Stability of Alhambra Creek at the John Muir family gravesite.
  Securing funds and initiating the Environmental Assessment and Fire 
Management Plan for John Muir NHS and Eugene O'Neill NHS.
  Securing funds and initiating Environmental Assessments for two large 
construction projects at John Muir NHS. One project is to create a new 
parking and staging area on Franklin Canyon Road. This will allow 
multiple school buses and visitors to park safely and provide a staging 
area for the entrance at Mt. Wanda. The other project improves the back 
entrance to the park on Canyon Way and access through the Highway 4 
tunnel.
  Successfully negotiating with the Navy and Army an agreement for 
access to the Port Chicago National Memorial. For eleven years, the 
National Park Service has been trying to get this agreement and, after 
a concerted effort during the last three years, an agreement was signed 
November 24, 2004. Port Chicago and the story the Memorial tells has 
been a personal and professional commitment of Glenn's. He has long 
believed that the story is of national significance that needs to reach 
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Americans. Glenn has, within existing resources, managed to share that 
story with hundreds of people in the years since the Memorial was 
created. Most especially, Glenn has coordinated the public observance 
of the anniversary of the explosion for the past ten years.
  Glenn is largely responsible for the overwhelming success of the 60th 
anniversary ceremony of the 1944 Port Chicago explosion and the 10th 
anniversary of the creation of the Memorial. The ceremony was a mix of 
speeches, recognition, personal letters from relatives who were 
stationed at Port Chicago in 1944 and personal accounts of the 
injustice to black sailors during World War II.
  Glenn is an active member of the San Francisco Network Inventory and 
Monitoring Program which provides natural resource management for both 
John Muir NHS and Eugene O'Neill NHS. Under Glenn's watch the park now 
has a new soil map, Vegetation Management Plan and Watershed Management 
Plan, moth and butterfly inventories, plans to remove unused fire 
roads, and containment of invasive plants.
  Mr. Speaker, because of Glenn Fuller's many contributions to our 
nation's history and his commitment to the National Park Service, it is 
proper for us, and it is my honor, to recognize him today.

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