Job Corps participants, Acadia National Park, Maine, late 1960s
national parks
We have our first new National Park Service site under Biden (not including him making Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante whole) and it is a much needed one, making another.
Recent years have seen a rapid increase in the use of our public lands, to the point that the most popular, especially the national parks, are totally overwhelmed. It's becoming.
Blackfeet in the Two Medicine area of what is today Glacier National Park, ca 1914 The history of the big iconic national parks is one of open theft from the tribes. Historians such as Karl Jacoby and Mark David Spence have explored these issues in...
I hate this administration so very, very, very much. At the urging of a controversial team of advisors, the Trump administration is mulling proposals to privatize national park campgrounds and.
So last weekend I was in Washington, D.C. to give a talk at a union conference and then I spent a couple days traveling through Virginia. That part of the.
Why are U.S. National Parks open during this government shutdown? Before he left office, Department of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke issued a policy document in January 2018 that outlines how national...
Everyone's favorite fake westerner left his position in disgrace, with a federal shutdown meaning that the national parks under his watch are being trashed by idiots. Wednesday is scandal haver.
From the beginning of the national parks, one concern environmentalists have had is turning the nation's most beautiful places into over-developed and cheesy tourist attractions, or to not be protected.
I've ranted against the bottled water industry before. It's a completely useless product for most people, who have perfectly good water in the taps. It privatizes water supplies for profit, which is antithetical to basic moral values. It drains local water sources and spreads that...
I write from Helena, Montana, in a very brief return to civilization from days of camping and hiking in our nation's most beautiful places, all of which are in the.
The last days of Obama make me sad because there are enough good things happening, even though I have my strong criticisms of his presidency, that it's incredibly depressing think.