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...
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...
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,...
Antonio Solorio helps national park tap into L.A.’s Latinx majority The Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area is a 157,000-acre quilt of national park, California state park and state beach lands, bordered by the Pacific Ocean and inland valleys. It’s located in the greater Los...
