Glacier National Park officials have announced the hiring of a new public affairs specialist, Denise Germann, who has held a similar position with the Flathead National Forest for the last seven years.

Germann will will work as a management assistant for the superintendents office overseeing public affairs, Freedom of Information Act requests and landowner issues.

She has worked for the Flathead Forest since 2004 and before that was with the National Park Service. She previously worked at Homestead National Monument of America in Nebraska, Lewis and Clark Historic Trail, Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site and the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial in Missouri. She worked seasonally at Mount Rushmore National Memorial, Harry S. Truman National Historic Site and the Rocky Mouintain Regional Office in Denver.

Germann lives in Kalispell with her husband and two sons. She starts work in Glacier on July 18.