New manager named for National Elk Refuge

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has named Brian Glaspell as new manager of the National Elk Refuge near Jackson.

Glaspell is a 15-year veteran of federal service and is currently Refuge Manager at Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. He will replace Steve Kallin, who recently retired, beginning in February.

Glaspell will oversee all aspects of management of the 24,700-acre Wyoming wildlife refuge.

His work experience includes a two-year term in Wyoming from June 2011 through April 2013 as the Recreation, Wilderness, Volunteers, and Partners Program Manager on the Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests & Thunder Basin National Grassland. He also worked as a Resource Management Scientist at the Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute in Missoula, Montana in 2002.

Glaspell holds several degrees in natural resource management, including a Bachelor of Science from the University of Wyoming, a Master of Science from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and a Doctorate from the University of Montana.