Gary Watts

A seagull flies over the California Coastal National Monument which stretches along the entire coast of California and extends 12 miles into the Pacific Ocean. The Monument includes 20,000 rocks, islands, pinnacles and reefs.

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Wagon wheel in the Carrizo Plain National Monument

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Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument Advisory Committee

Gary Watts

Dept. of Parks and Recreation

Term Expires 03/16/2010

Gary Watts is the representative for the California Department of Parks and Recreation. In addition to being the Inland Empire District superintendent, he has also been serving as the advisory committee?s chairperson for the past year.

A State Parks employee for more then 29 years, he became a Southern California regional manager in 1993. His current duties include management of fourteen parks, and 130 employees. With an annual budget of $10 million, the parks see more then two million visitors daily.

Mt. San Jacinto State Park is among the fourteen parks he supervises, and a significant portion of it is within the boundaries of the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument.