Long-time Volunteer Retires: Jim Snyder

Park Ranger Melanie Fontana

This year marked another major change in Los Peñasquitos Canyon Preserve: Jim Snyder, long-time volunteer, retired from service to the canyon. From 2003 to March 2020, Jim worked alongside Bill Witzell and the Rangers three days a week — save for rainy days, a personal rule owing to his career as a mail carrier. His boisterous laugh and boyish curiosity in all things made him an ideal working companion. All the rangers are grateful to still have his friendship, though our volunteer mornings will never be the same without him. Please join the rangers in wishing him all the happiest moments as he turns his attention to his beloved wife and backyard pond.