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Echols has been acting in the role since March, but takes over at time when the park is recovering from Hurricane Sally, the bridge outage and COVID.

View Comments A new superintendent has been named to oversee operations at Gulf Islands National Seashore about six months after the previous superintendent retired. Darrell Echols will take over as the parks superintendent on July 18, according to a news release issued Tuesday by the National Park Service. Echols worked most recently as regional chief of science and natural resources management for the park services South-Atlantic Gulf region, which is based in Atlanta. For the past t...

Fort Barrancas area recognized as Underground Railroad Site Special to the Press Gazette/USA TODAY NETWORK GULF BREEZE — Fort Barrancas Area was accepted into the National Park Service’s National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom on April 23. Located on Naval Air Station Pensacola, the 64.06-acre Fort Barrancas Area is managed by Gulf Islands National Seashore. The National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom is a federal program that commemorates the stories of the men and women ...