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Rolf Diamant is superintendent of Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park, also home to the National Park Service Conservation Study Institute. In his 34-year career with the NPS Rolf has served as a park superintendent, planner and resource manager and developed collaborative conservation strategies for national parks, national heritage areas and wild and scenic rivers. Rolf directed the studies that led to the creation of the Blackstone River and Canal National Heritage Corridor, one of the first national heritage areas, and the Wild and Scenic designation of the Wildcat River -- an early model for cooperative river stewardship for which he received the American Rivers Conservation Award for Distinction in Public Service. Rolf also helped establish the Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation, the NPS technical center for cultural landscape stewardship. Rolf received a Bachelor of Science in Conservation of Natural Resources and a Masters in Landscape Architecture from University of California, Berkeley and was a Loeb Fellow in Advanced Environmental Studies at Harvard University. He is a contributing author to The Conservation of Cultural Landscapes (CAB International, 2006), Reconstructing Conservation: Finding Common Ground (Island Press, 2003), Wilderness Comes Home, Re-wilding the Northeast (University Press of New England, 2001) and Twentieth-Century New England Land Conservation: A Heritage of Civic Engagement (Harvard University Press, 2008).