NPS: Unprecedented Visits
Birthday-Celebrating Park Service Smashes Visitation Mark Buoyed by a yearlong birthday bash, the National Park Service crushed its all-time visitation record by nearly 17.5 million. The system’s 413 units, which includes national parks, battlefields, historic sites, monuments and other designations, attracted 324,696,417 recreational visits in...
Whose Homeland?
Deep questions, deep divisions arise in tribal bid by Jonathan Thompson High Country News Spider Grandmother spoke. She said, “Remember the sipapuni, for you will not see it again. You will go on long migrations. Wherever you stop to rest, leave your marks on the...
Our Overflowing Parks
Another record year in visitation strains NPS infrastructure While flashing back to an impossibly busy summer, Kathleen Gonder describes Bryce Canyon National Park as if under siege: “We’re scrambling just to be able to provide infrastructure — and that means the basics, like clean restrooms...
A Sense of Yosemite
by Glenn Nelson Photographs by Nancy RobbinsCaptions by Nancy RobbinsEssays by David “Mas” Masumoto144 pages, hardcover: $35Yosemite Conservancy, 2016 So many people had referred to Yosemite National Park as a church or cathedral that the first time I ever rolled into the valley, I swear...
Treasured Lands
A monumental literary achievement in a year for National Parks By Glenn Nelson by QT Luong(Forward by Dayton Duncan)456 pages, hardcover: $65.00 Cameron + Company, 2016 Tuan (Q.T.) Luong has been down many pothole-filled roads during his 20-year quest to photograph every national park in...
New Green 2.0 Study Unveiled
Commitment lacking in finding diverse green executive candidates Building on its first major study finding few people of color in the leadership of mainstream environmental NGOs, foundations and government agencies, Green 2.0 has released a new report, Diversity Derailed: Limited Demand, Effort and Results in...