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To: average joe who wrote (3448)	8/22/2006 10:42:53 AM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 5290

Alan Smithee and I read that book and discussed it at length. It came to many good conclusions, but I thought it might have been overly harsh on civil servants who were trying their best to do something that had never been done before, and under difficult circumstances. It also made the point, which I somewhat disagree with, that the method of career promotion in the Park Service relied too heavily on experience on the ground by technicians without college level training and not enough on 'professionals.' In my view, there is a middle ground. By and large a college education is overrated for that and many other natural resource jobs. It's not that a college education is bad (I have one and needed it), but that often the best people are those on the ground, like sergeants in the military, who got their education in the school of hard knocks.