In the final season of "Parks and Recreation", Leslie Knope takes a regional job with which U.S. federal agency?

In the final season of “Parks and Recreation,” Leslie Knope takes a regional job with the National Park Service.

The position is Regional Director of the National Park Service’s Midwest Region, a major promotion from her earlier work in Pawnee’s Parks and Recreation Department and on the city council. It places Leslie in a federal role focused on national parks and public lands while allowing the series to preserve her lifelong commitment to public service.

Leslie’s move develops during the sixth-season finale, “Moving Up,” when Michelle Obama encourages her to accept the opportunity. By season seven, the story jumps forward to 2017 and shows Leslie established in the job. The agency is distinct from the Department of the Interior: the National Park Service is a bureau within that department, so the two names are related but are not interchangeable answers.

The role also fits Leslie’s long-running ambition to improve communities through public spaces. Her later efforts to create a Pawnee National Park bring that federal career back into the show’s local, civic-minded storyline.