Mountains of Diversity
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...
Diversity Stars at Ranger Congress
Shelton Johnson of Yosemite National Park and Ravis Henry of Canyon de Chelly National Monument helped put the National Park Service’s scant diversity on display during opening ceremonies of the 8th World Ranger Congress on Sunday, May 22, at YMCA of the Rockies in Estes...
Tribes Granted $9.8M
The National Park Service has awarded $9.8 million in grants to more than 160 tribes for cultural and heritage preservation projects on their tribal lands. Another $46.9 million was awarded by the NPS on Monday for historic preservation grants to every U.S. state, territory, and...
Diverse Groups Propose Action
A landmark coalition of diverse leaders from civil rights, environmental justice, conservation and community organizations, including Glenn Nelson, founder of The Trail Posse, today announced a set of recommended policies and called on President Obama to take critical steps toward an inclusive system of national...
Parks Week No Game Changer
Sitting in front of the Yosemite Valley Visitor Center last week, the iconic National Park Service ranger Shelton Johnson and I saw something that stopped our conversation in mid-sentence: a brown-skinned couple. The man wore dreadlocks, but both had their backs turned to us. We couldn’t...
Carter-King Exhibit Unveiled
ATLANTA – A new exhibit that highlights the peacemaking accomplishments of Georgia’s two great leaders of change, President Jimmy Carter and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., will be unveiled on April 18 by National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis, along with members of the...