National Parks

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• 2/6/20
  

  Harriet Tubman and a National Legacy of Midnight Skies and Silent Stars

  by Todd Lookingbill

  The Oscar buzz around the film and the popularity of the biopic with critics and general audiences alike creates an opportunity to discuss and shine a light on the important landscape associated with this amazing historical figure. 

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• SOURCE: Powell Tribune
  6/4/2019
  

  Preserving the history of Yellowstone

  It’s important to preserve the history of Native tribes in the Yellowstone region.

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• SOURCE: Time
  4/2/19
  

  The Story We've Been Told About America's National Parks Is Incomplete

  by Dina Gilio-Whitaker

  The national park system has long been lauded as “America’s greatest idea,” but only relatively recently has it begun to be more deeply questioned.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  2/24/19
  

  Overcoming A 'Long, Bitter Relationship,' Grand Canyon And Tribes Mark Centennial

  Eleven tribes have traditional ties to the Grand Canyon.

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• SOURCE: We're History
  6-7-18
  

  Seven More National Parks Interpreting Difficult American History

  National parks are not just places of natural beauty and wildlife. National parks are also places of great significance to American history—both the triumphant and the controversial.

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• 10-15-17
  

  Is the Trump Administration Threatening the Integrity of our National Parks?

  by John Clayton

  They want to privatize campgrounds, a surprising contributor to the national park experience.

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• SOURCE: Associated Press
  11-29-13
  

  Los Alamos working to create national park

  But anti-nuclear activists are fighting the process every step of the way.

• SOURCE: AP
  2-22-13
  

  National park cuts detailed in memo

  The towering giant sequoias at Yosemite National Park would go unprotected from visitors who might trample their shallow roots. At Cape Cod National Seashore, large sections of the Great Beach would close to keep eggs from being destroyed if natural resource managers are cut.Gettysburg would decrease by one-fifth the numbers of school children who learn about the historic Pennsylvania battle that was a turning point in the Civil War.As America's financial clock ticks toward forced spending cuts to countless government agencies, The Associated Press has obtained a National Park Service memo that compiles a list of potential effects at the nation's most beautiful and historic places just as spring vacation season begins......Even Declaration House in Pennsylvania, the place where Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence, wouldn't be spared. Nor would comfort stations on the Natchez Trace Parkway in Mississippi...