More than 100 people attending the annual meeting of the Friends of the Virgin Islands National Park heard a modest State of the Park address from Resources Management Chief Rafe Boulon. He said 2006 was a "reasonably good year … despite level funding and cost increases, the St. John Source reported.
Boulon might have added that other handicaps included the resignation of Park Supt. Art Frederick and a short "acting superintendency" of Walter Chavez. He recently returned to his full time post on Puerto Rico. A new acting superintendent, Catherine Light, arrived on island during the weekend.