2:14 A former mayor of Kotzebue has been promoted to a top regional job within the National Park Service. She’s been superintendent of the Western Arctic Parklands since 2016, overseeing operations in 9 million acres that include Noatak National Preserve, Kobuk Valley National Park and the Cape Krusenstern National Monument. Lukin says a lot of her job involves working with tribes living outside the national park boundaries “The Park Service in the Alaska Region has really moved towards listening to Indigenous people and the first Alaskans in the management of that land because, if you look at history, we’ve been managing that land very successfully for 13,000 years,” Lukin said.