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...
Since I’ve been writing about race, diversity and inclusion in the outdoors, my inbox and the various comments sections below my stories sometimes read like braying from a Trump rally. “We never hung ‘whites only’ signs at any parks.” “Black people just don’t like bugs...
Using small-unit nimbleness to attack national parks’ big-picture diversity issue By Glenn Nelson White, male and “midcareer,” Seattle’s Charles Beall in a lot of ways is the face of the National Park Service that turns 100 on Aug. 25. He also may be the best...
A change in hiring programs cost the NPS a diverse, young ranger You may never have heard of him, but Masyih Ford is arguably the third most-recognizable African-American ranger in the National Park Service. The first and second are, of course, Shelton Johnson at Yosemite,...
