national parks
Adam Markham has an excellent rundown of Trump's nominee for Secretary of the Interior, who I am sad to say is also a former offensive linemen for the University of.
In the next month, expect Barack Obama to make significant expansions to the National Park Service through naming National Monuments. There is some risk here given the extremists taking power.
To mark the National Park Service's 100th anniversary, Barack Obama vastly expanded the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, which was originally created by George W. Bush to claim he had done.
One hundred years ago today, Woodrow Wilson signed the bill creating the National Park Service. While other nations do have national parks, no other nation has used the idea to.
This is a good report on the challenge of climate change for the national parks. How important is this? Climate change isn’t the first challenge to the wonders that national.
In the last year of the Obama administration, expect to see a large number of new national park sites named, largely national monuments since the president can do this unilaterally.
Above: Mary McLeod Bethune. The National Park Service offers tours of her home in Washington, D.C. Provocative and interesting essay from the National Parks and Conservation Association's Alan Spears, arguing.
Glenn Nelson challenges the National Park Service to do more to welcome minorities. He notes how very few visitors to national parks are people of color and the very strong.