Don’t Be Silenced
An Open Invitation to workers at Federal Public-lands agencies To the women and men on the ground in our federal public-lands agencies, Because of your pugnacious colleagues at @NatlParkService and @BadlandsNPS, youβve experienced the gag reflex of our newly installed president. Welcome to the club....
The POC-in-chief Delivers
Presidential Memorandum, Monument Designations set blueprint for diversity, inclusion, access in public lands as a new normal Barack Obama is the reason I met Audrey Peterman, who has been advocating for inclusion and access in U.S. public lands for more than 20 years. When the...
The New Tubman NHP
Unit is 13th with cultural significance established by Obama Obamaβs Impact President Obama has established or redesignated 23 National Park Service units during his administration; 13 of those have cultural significance to marginalized Americans: Harriet Tubman NHP (NY), 2017 Stonewall National Monument (NY), 2016 Castle...
Obama’s Vision
National parks, monuments, memorials and preserves designated during the Obama administration that have cultural relevance to communities of color and other marginalized groups. This list does not include dozens of national historic landmarks. (Click on park name for website, more details). Birmingham Civil Rights (Alabama),...
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 systemβs 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, βRemember 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: βWeβre scrambling just to be able to provide infrastructure β and that means the basics, like clean restrooms...
A Sense of Yosemite
by Glenn Nelson Photographs by Nancy RobbinsCaptions by Nancy RobbinsEssays by David βMasβ 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...
Looming Showdown at Standing Rock
By Gundars Rudzitis The history of the West is strewn with the sad stories of leaders who signed unfair treaties with Native Americans in order to steal their land. They trampled Native cultures and environments in their greedy quest for wealth. Will this tradition of...
Yoga for Hikers
Exploring how yoga can complement the outdoor experience Review By Liz Thomas Yoga for Hikers opens with the author, Nicole Tsong, a yoga-skeptical, Alaska-living outdoorswoman, having just moved from Anchorage to the big city, Seattle. Irritable from traffic and urban life, distraught by a lack...
