The Buffalo Soldiers played a key role in the early development and management of our national parks, and their story provides a key connection between communities of color and our public lands. In an effort to strengthen this connection, the National Park Service is conducting...
The National Parks reached their centennial facing myriad challenges that threaten their next 100 years, ranging from climate change, funding woes and even a lack of diversity in park visitation and workforce. This episode of West Obsessed features a discussion of those issues, recently covered...
Mobile centers like Roving Ranger and La Ranger Troca have promise to address National Park diversity struggles Earlier this summer in a steamy but shaded corner of Griffith Park in Los Angeles, Jose Garcia has just told a group of third graders that cottontails “eat...
Betty Reid Soskin earned fame as “the nation’s oldest park ranger,” but her contributions to America’s national parks run much deeper On a brisk, foggy morning in mid-July, reporters gathered outside the visitor center of Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historic Park, which sits...
Breaking (Aug. 25, 2016): The California State Assembly has designated as the Buffalo Soldiers Highway the portion of California State Highway Route 41 from post mile 1.841 at the Mariposa-Madera County line to post mile 4.918 to Yosemite National Park. The act was signed into...
Gonzalez walks the walk for climate action in national parks By Elizabeth Shogren High Country News The first unmistakable sign of climate change Patrick Gonzalez ever saw in the field was in Senegal. It was a dead tree — Prosopis Africana or, as the locals...
