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 βWe 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 Obamaβs Vision President Obama has established 25 national monuments and expanded several others β 17 have cultural significance to disenfranchised Americans: Bears Ears (UT): Sacred tribal land, jointly managed by tribes. Belmont-Paul Womenβs...
NPS Seeks Buffalo Soldiers Insight, Comments
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...
West Obsessed: NPS Challenges
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...
Taking Parks to People
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 βeat...
A Not-Always-Rosie Road
Betty Reid Soskin earned fame as βthe nationβs oldest park ranger,β but her contributions to Americaβs 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...
Buffalo Soldiers Hwy Enacted!
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...
Prepping for a Hotter Future
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 β Prosopis Africana or, as the locals...
