Yosemite National Park’s superintendent Cicely Muldoon will retire next month, according to an internal email she sent to her staff on Jan. 13 and later shared with SFGATE via a spokesperson.

Yosemite National Park’s superintendent Cicely Muldoon will retire next month, according to an internal email she sent to her staff on Jan. 13 and later shared with SFGATE via a spokesperson.

Yosemite National Park Superintendent Cicely Muldoon has announced that she is stepping down at the end of next month, leaving a hole in the management at one of the nation’s top parks. Muldoon ...

Cicely Muldoon in 2010, the year she was named superintendent of the Point Reyes National Seashore. (Jocelyn Knight/Special to the Marin Independent Journal) ...

Ms. Muldoon says that more aggressive steps need to be taken than before to make the forests of Yosemite more resilient. But she and the park’s management will first have to prevail in court.

“It was back to the bad old days,” said Muldoon. “It was really terrible. Parking was off-the-charts crazy.” Walk-in visitors do not require a reservation, but for travelers who drive ...

CICELY MULDOON, the superintendent of Yosemite National Park, explaining a shift to the preventative felling of trees as a way to control fires that now resemble hellish storms because of ...

But this fire is particularly troubling in that the trees at risk are “the root of the whole national park system,” said Cicely Muldoon, superintendent of Yosemite National Park.

At a community meeting Monday evening, Yosemite Superintendent Cicely Muldoon said the fire was caused by humans. "As you all know, there was no lightning on that day.

The park’s superintendent, Cicely Muldoon, said large crowds already have been coming to the park in recent weeks, and there are still cases of COVID-19 spreading in California, and other states ...