Congratulations, Courtney Lyons-Garcia

Book Recommendation Panel member Courtney Lyons-Garcia

We send our hearty congratulations to Courtney Lyons-Garcia, a member of our Book Recommendation Panel for being named Executive Director of the Mission Heritage Partners, the National Park Service partner for the San Antonio Missions National Historical Park and World Heritage Site.

Courtney has a long history with organizations supporting parks and public land. She previously served as Executive Director of the Big Bend Conservancy (supporting Big Bend National Park in Far West Texas) and the Public Lands Foundation.

Courtney is also serving as the Parks and Trail specialist for the Great Springs Project, a network of spring-to-spring trails and protected natural areas over the Edwards Aquifer between San Antonio and Austin.

Courtney teaches one Mass Communications class per semester at Texas State University. Courtney has more than twenty-five years of experience in public lands and public-private partnerships.

For the Spring 2023 issue, Courtney recommended The Land Has Memory: Indigenous Knowledge, Native Landscapes, and the National Museum of the American Indian, Duane Blue Spruce and Tanya Thrasher (editors), University of North Carolina Press, 2009, 184 pages.

For the Winter 2022-2023 issue, Courtney recommended Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole, Dr. Jerri Nielsen and Maryanne Vollers, Miramax, 2001, 384 pages.

For the Autumn 2022 issue, Courtney recommended No Barriers: A Blind Man's Journey to Kayak the Grand Canyon, Erik Weihenmayer and Buddy Levy, Thomas Dunne Books, 2017, 480 pages.