Cassius Cash will step down as superintendent of Great Smoky Mountains National Park to join Yosemite Conservancy as CEO.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park Superintendent Cassius Cash is leaving the National Park Service. He has been chosen as the new president and CEO of the Yosemite Conservancy.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park Superintendent Cassius Cash is stepping down after almost a decade heading up the country’s most-visited national park.

Cassius Cash, the superintendent of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, is leaving the park service to become CEO of the Yosemite Conservancy.

Firefighters continue to put out the slowly burning fire that began three weeks ago after a lightning strike, the National Park Service said Sept. 19.