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...
A Sense of Belonging
An intern finds her identity celebrated in the National Park Service When I first applied for an internship with the In My Backyard program in the National Park Service, it seemed almost impossible for someone like me to join. As a young woman born and...
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: “We’re scrambling just to be able to provide infrastructure — and that means the basics, like clean restrooms...
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...
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 “eat...
An Urban Initiative for NPS
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...