Rolf Diamant
Rolf Diamant, retired national park superintendent and writer, is adjunct associate professor of history and historic preservation at the University of Vermont.
In his previous career with the National Park Service, Rolf was a park manager and steadfast advocate for environmental humanism and relevance. He worked with the National Park System Advisory Board to develop polity initiatives on large landscape conservation, civic engagement, urban national parks, and collaborative leadership.
His column Letter from Woodstock, addressing the future of national parks, appears regularly in the University of California Berkeley journal Parks Stewardship Forum. Current publications include two books on national parks: A Thinking Person’s Guide to America’s National Parks (Braziller – 2016), and Olmsted and Yosemite: Civil War, Abolition, and the National Park Idea, with Ethan Carr, (Library of American Landscape History – 2022.)