GATLINBURG, Tenn. — Lisa Hendy is the first female chief ranger of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Hendy is from Chattanooga, Tenn. and has spent more than a decade serving different national ...

GATLINBURG, Tennessee — Lisa Hendy is the new Chief Ranger of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in April, the first woman to hold that post in the Smokies. While the park has had female rangers ...

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Chattanooga native Lisa Hendy has become the first woman to be named Chief Ranger of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. She will oversee employees in the Resource and Visitor Protection Division ...

The award-winning ranger explains what she does every day and shares wisdom gleaned from years working at Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Big Bend, Arches, Yellowstone, and Rocky Mountain National Parks.

For the first time, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park will have a woman as chief ranger. The park, which straddles the border between North Carolina and Tennessee, is the most visited national ...