NPS Free Days for 2017
After splurging for 16 fee-free days to celebrate its centennial, the National Park Service will offer 10 in 2017. The number is up from nine in 2015. In 2017, the fee-free days include: January 16: Martin Luther King Jr. Day February 20: Presidents Day April...
2017 Calendars (Nature Calls)
Last year’s version of Nature Calls featured images only from Washington, my home state. This year, I go nation-wide again. I think these are my best images – my photography got better because I went to better places (15 national parks for the National Park...
Comments for Tule Lake
NPS to hold sessions about management plan, environmental assessment for former Japanese American WWII prison site TULELAKE, California –The National Park Service has released the Tule Lake Unit General Management Plan and Environmental Assessment for public review and comment. The plan provides long-term guidance for...
Reckoning at Standing Rock
Resolution of pipeline protests rooted in U.S. history by Paul VanDelever for High Country News “We have seen that the white man does not take his religion any more seriously than his laws, that he keeps both of them just behind him, like Helpers, to...
Opportunity for Cultural Change in NPS
Diversity issues could be addressed as NPS works through harassment, work environment (NOTE: Clicking on most images will launch a full-sized viewer). by Glenn Nelson Three days removed from her courageous, stomach-churning testimony before a Congressional oversight committee, Kelly Martin was more in her element...
Culturally Monumental
Bears Ears, Gold Butte continue trend of relevant monuments by Glenn Nelson Obama’s Vision President Obama has established 25 national monuments and expanded several others – 17 have cultural significance to disenfranchised Americans: Bears Ears (UT): Sacred tribal land, jointly managed by tribes. Belmont-Paul Women’s...