Professional Bio

Sally Plumb is the interpretive planner of Yellowstone National Park. She received her undergraduate degree in Spanish from Colorado College, then pursued a graduate degree at Colorado State University in Environmental Interpretation.

Ms. Plumb spent thirteen years as a full-time mother, substitute teacher, and freelance writer, publishing numerous magazine articles and two children’s books, A Pika’s Tail and The Hole Story.

Upon moving to Yellowstone National Park, Ms. Plumb provided front-line curriculum-based interpretation for a diversity of organized educational groups, coordinated the park’s requested educational services program, headed development of a fire ecology curriculum for the park’s premier summer high school field camp, developed much of the educational content of Windows Into Wonderland (www.windowsintowonderland.org), a series of curriculum-based electronic field trips for middle-school children focusing on the park’s natural and cultural resources, and created the layout and content of the park’s upcoming Virtual Visitor Center.

Ms. Plumb is currently the interpretive project manager/coordinator of the new Old Faithful Visitor Education Center (scheduled to open in Fall, 2010). She also serves as the Yellowstone Interpretive Division’s accessibility coordinator, and is a member of the Park’s Foundation for Planning team. Her interpretive work to date has received three awards from the National Association for Interpretation, as well as the 2007 Intermountain Region Freeman Tilden Award for Excellence in Interpretation.

Expertise & Interest Descriptors

Applying interpretive principles and management in the development of interpretive and educational materials, displays, and educational curriculum, front-line interpretation of natural and cultural resources, natural area management and preservation

Planned Conference Participation

Attending :: ISE PI Summit 2008
25 - 26 July 2008