Why are you running for office: Coconino County is second largest county in the U.S. with incredible natural beauty and an abundance of natural resources. Coconino County is a wonderland of open spaces, a cowboy’s dream, but the greatest resource this county possesses, in abundance, is our people. Our people here are a diverse blend of the best of mankind. District 4 is the eastern side of the county, from Tonalea, Moenkopi, and Cameron in the north part of the district, Leupp to the east, the east side of suburban Flagstaff, District 4 is almost all rural lands and almost all small rural towns. I believe that the rural areas of this county need to have representation at the supervisor level and nearly all for the supervisors currently in office live in Flagstaff. I’m an Arizona native, with ancestry the state going back to the 1700s. Jim Parks believes in the people here. With a set of skills and education developed through real life experiences as a navy shipboard flight deck crewman in the Vietnam War, NAU student, a working cowboy, former ranch manager, pilot, member of the board of directors of Arizona Farm Bureau, president of the Coconino County Farm Bureau and Cattle Growers Association and vice chair of the Coconino County Natural Resource Conservation District.