Japanese American Activation
After a sometimes rousing, mostly solemn, and often tear-filled memorial ceremony brimming with Japanese and Japanese American influences, a scene unfurled that, to common understanding, may have seemed very un-Japanese. It happened beside an old jail nested in a much larger prison, the Tule Lake...
Chinese Americans in Yosemite
Bill in California Legislature Will Honor Roles Like Tie Sing’s Contributions by yet another community of color—Chinese Americans—to Yosemite National Park and the Sierra Nevada are proposed to be honored by a bill introduced in the California state legislature. Assembly Concurrent Resolution (ACR) 262 was...
‘Every Kid in a Park’ Saved?
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Bending to public outcry, including a strong stance by Next 100 Coalition members, the Department of the Interior is expected to renew the “Every Kid in a Park” program that helps ensure equitable access to U.S. public lands for fourth graders and...
Beyond Bears Ears
This piece appeared in the March 2018 issue of Outside Magazine The last time I visited Yosemite National Park, I made the jaunt to Glacier Point. Standing at the edge of the drop-off, I tried to imagine myself taking in the magnificent vista while discussing...
Taylor Finds Green Orgs Dropping Ball on Diversity
Back in the early 1980s, during an undergraduate environmental studies class, Dorceta Taylor asked a question that would whisk her onto a path leading, in recent years, to groundbreaking research on diversity in environmental organizations. Taylor realized about midway through the course at Northern Illinois...
CA Moves to Honor Young
Assemblyman Devon Mathis (R-Visalia) recently introduced ACR 142, which would designate a specific portion of State Highway 198 from Three Rivers to Sequoia National Park in Tulare County as the Colonel Charles Young Memorial Highway. Previously, the California state assembly designated as the Buffalo Soldiers...