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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"> <channel> <docs>http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification</docs> <atom:link rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" href="https://escholarship.org/uc/psf/rss"/> <ttl>720</ttl> <title>Recent psf items</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/psf/rss</link> <description>Recent eScholarship items from Parks Stewardship Forum</description> <pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2025 14:30:27 -0700</pubDate> <item> <title>The Urgent Need for a Unified Vision of Conservation</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9db4c53h</link> <description>This essay launches a new editorial column in Parks Stewardship Forum , "Branching Out," which provides a space for guest columnists from outside the traditional conservation community. The authors make the case for broadening the conversation in order to achieve a more unified approach to conservation.</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9db4c53h</guid> <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Jarvis, Jonathan B.</name> </author> <author> <name>Machlis, Gary</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Maya Communities Preserve the Bioculturality of the Landscape and Lead Territory Management in Mexico: A Model of Indigenous Co-Stewardship of Public Lands</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8sf000tx</link> <description>A description of Indigenous Mayan biocultural management in the Puuc Region, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico.</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8sf000tx</guid> <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Medina García, Minneth Beatriz</name> </author> <author> <name>Sánchez Hernandez, Juana Iris</name> </author> <author> <name>Argleben, Maite Arce</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Cultural Burning: Under the Sovereign Authority of Tribes</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7j63r70n</link> <description>A poster prepared on behalf of the Karuk Tribe describing the Tribe's approach to burning vegetation for cultural purposes.</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7j63r70n</guid> <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Varney, Abigail</name> </author> <author> <name>Nairn, Isobel</name> </author> <author> <name>Clark, Sara A.</name> </author> <author> <name>Tripp, Bill</name> </author> <author> <name>Rossier, Colleen E.</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>“Radiant Lands”</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/696389v7</link> <description>An artist statement regarding the cover art for this issue.</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/696389v7</guid> <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Kinder, Kelly Redfearn</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Before Co-Stewardship and Management of Public Lands: The Historicity of Indigenous Land Stewardship and Management in Native California</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6892p1vt</link> <description>This article begins with a very brief overview of the diverse, multilayered, traditionalist relationships that underpin Native California land stewardship. From there it summarizes the impacts of Spanish, Mexican, and early American colonization on Native Californians and their eons-old relationships with the land, including the outlawing by early Spanish colonizers of cultural burning. These summary discussions provide context for a deeper understanding of the significance of ground-breaking, mid-20th-century Native California organizational initiatives to restore ancestral land management, beginning with the 1940 establishment of the Pomo Indian Women’s Club and the 1951 founding of the Northwest California Hoopa Pottery Guild, an effort to preserve ancestral basketry designs in fired clay that would eventually lead to the restoration of regional basketry traditions and the application of cultural burning techniques necessary to generate the growth of the healthy, flexible shoots...</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6892p1vt</guid> <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Ortiz, Beverly R.</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Respectful Tribal Consultation Protocols from Native California Perspectives</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6694k5zn</link> <description>For public land management agency managers and staff, co-stewardship and co-management may just be another element of the job, but for Native peoples it’s their very life. This article details respectful Tribal consultation from Native California perspectives, the foundation upon which successful co-stewardship and co-management of public lands rests. For those managers and staff who are unfamiliar with the Tribes and Tribal communities in their area, we begin by providing a note about naming terminology and some sources for identifying Native groups who are/were historically located in a given area. From there, after introducing the concept of respectful Tribal consultation, we describe the relationship and trust-building process between Tribal governments and their designated representatives and public land management agency managers and other staff, relationships that must be proven and nurtured across time, rather than initiated as time- and process-challenged business arrangements....</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6694k5zn</guid> <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Ortiz, Beverly R.</name> </author> <author> <name>Castro, Gregg</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Indigenous Stewardship of Ancestral Lands Activates Land and Culture: Will We Listen?</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/60p93488</link> <description>At Bears Ears National Monument (BENM) Indigenous wisdom-keepers have been transmitting knowledge and activating this “living landscape” and the Native cultures thriving within it across hundreds of generations. In this article we ask, “What should true collaboration look like between Tribes, federal agencies, grassroots Native communities, and the land?” In today’s dialogue around collaboration, US agencies are asserting Western ideas around “co-management,” “co-stewardship,” and “Traditional Ecological Knowledge” (TEK). Instead, this dialogue needs to begin at the community level to understand Native land ethics, “human” and “non-human” bonds, and kinship relationships that define reciprocity between Indigenous People and the land. Collaboration must begin by treating Native wisdom as proprietary, because knowledge in itself is a powerful entity. How we treat and use Native wisdom has consequences and, thus, transmission of such knowledge needs protection. Agencies should take...</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/60p93488</guid> <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Wilson, Cynthia</name> </author> <author> <name>Noyes, Gavin</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Letter to the Reader: The Courage to Build a Better Future</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6023c7g4</link> <description>An introduction to the Featured Theme papers in this issue.</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6023c7g4</guid> <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Martinez, Deniss J.</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>The Saga to Reinvigorate the National Park Service</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5zg7d2hr</link> <description>After a century, America’s national parks have become so popular that they are in danger of being smothered by affection. Many people struggle to visit a national park without making heroic planning efforts, booking reservations many months in advance, and incurring significant travel costs. How can we save wildlife and historical treasures in parks struggling to survive onslaughts? This saga has the makings of a classic story arc—Good Deed &gt; Collapse &gt; Escalation—but only if we can reinvigorate National Park System stewardship to ensure humanity’s heritage survives unimpaired in parks as intended by our ancestors.</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5zg7d2hr</guid> <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Davis, Gary E.</name> </author> <author> <name>Davis, Dorothy A.</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Following the Smoke: A Co-Stewardship Project of Karuk Indigenous Basketweavers and the US Forest Service</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5h3905z7</link> <description>In 1997, Karuk Indigenous Basketweavers and the Orleans Ranger District of Six Rivers National Forest in Northern California established Following the Smoke, a multiple years-long, award-winning, summertime project initiated and led by LaVerne Glaze (Karuk, 1932–2017) and other Karuk Indigenous Basketweavers members. Initially conducted under the aegis of the US Forest Service (USFS) Passport in Time (PIT) program to “engage volunteers” in the USFS heritage program, and later under the aegis of California State University, Humboldt (now California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt), Following the Smoke, which concluded in 2012, has inspired other similar projects on public lands in the state, including Following the Smoke II of the California Indian Basketweavers Association. This article will detail the intent, content, and outcomes of Following the Smoke, which centered on a robust, organizational effort to encourage the appreciation of the need for culturally appropriate...</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5h3905z7</guid> <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Ortiz, Beverly R.</name> </author> <author> <name>Stauffer, Renee</name> </author> <author> <name>Marshall, Deanna</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Cover, Masthead, and Table of Contents PSF Vol. 41 no. 1</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5cd7t4p2</link> <description>Cover, Masthead, and Table of Contents PSF Vol. 41 no. 1</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5cd7t4p2</guid> <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>UCB/GWS</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>“Keep America Respected and Loved”: A conversation with Italian park leader Maurilio Cipparone</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4x21t3qw</link> <description>In this "Letter from Woodstock," our columnist draws lessons from Italy that are relevant to the incoming Trump administration.</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4x21t3qw</guid> <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Diamant, Rolf</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Examining and strengthening the role of science in wilderness decision-making</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/48f3234g</link> <description>Public land management decisions rely on science but there is a disconnect between research and practical application; this is referred to as the research–management gap. Within the context of the United States (US) National Wilderness Preservation System, this gap has implications across 111 million acres of land managed by four federal agencies. To better understand how to bridge research with management within the US wilderness context, we conducted facilitated conversations with 68 wilderness managers using interactive virtual whiteboards to guide conversations around decision contexts, the role of science in wilderness management decision-making, and opportunities to improve the use of science in wilderness management. We found that wilderness managers operate within four main decision contexts (operational, relational, informational, and policy), and that they rely on a variety of sources of information, with science as one of many sources, to guide management action and...</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/48f3234g</guid> <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Redmore, Lauren</name> </author> <author> <name>Rushing, Jaclyn</name> </author> <author> <name>Armatas, Chris</name> </author> <author> <name>Wright, Vita</name> </author> <author> <name>Helmy, Olga</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Indigenous Co-Stewardship and the “Rashomon Effect”</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3066814g</link> <description>The author applies principles from the classic film "Rashomon" to improve co-stewardship efforts between Indigenous People / Tribes and government agencies.</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3066814g</guid> <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Barr, Bradley W.</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Editors’ note: Parks Stewardship Forum Chosen for the Permanent Digital Collection of the Library of Congress</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2q59d8pg</link> <description>An announcement describing the selection of the journal for the Library of Congress' digital collection.</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2q59d8pg</guid> <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>UCB/GWS</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>The California Indian Basketweavers Association and Its Organizationally Based Land Stewardship and Management Initiatives</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/26k1x554</link> <description>This article will detail the wide-ranging and effective land stewardship and management initiatives by a Native California organization, the California Indian Basketweavers Association (CIBA). Founded in 1992 to “preserve, promote and perpetuate California Indian basketry traditions,” CIBA has a proud history of working with public land-holding agencies to initiate policy changes around the management and gathering of basketry plants on those lands, including the reduction and sometimes outright elimination of pesticide spraying, the encouragement of cultural burning, and an unprecedented, joint US Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management gathering policy for ethnobotanic materials. Currently, CIBA spearheads training programs in land stewardship and cultural burning through its Following the Smoke II and Rekindling Culture and Fire projects. It has also inspired the establishment of other Native basketweavers associations in various regions of the US.</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/26k1x554</guid> <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Ortiz, Beverly R.</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Exploration of Edges</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1qn6w00r</link> <description>A poem in the "Verse in Place" section of Parks Stewardship Forum.</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1qn6w00r</guid> <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Owens, Scott</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Cover, Masthead, and Table of Contents PSF Vol. 40 no. 3</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8xz5x103</link> <description>Cover, Masthead, and Table of Contents PSF Vol. 40 no. 3</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8xz5x103</guid> <pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>PSF Editorial Team, The</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Shifting Baselines: Visualizing Climate Change in America’s National Parks</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7qw9f58f</link> <description>This visual essay highlights four national parks where the impacts of climate change are well-documented and visually compelling (Everglades, Mesa Verde, Joshua Tree, and Mount Rainier). In drawing attention to these visible climate impacts and effectively interpreting the changes in situ, the park service can play a key role in clarifying the issue of climate change for the American public. Park managers and other park professionals have undoubtedly identified locations in their own management units offering similar opportunities to engage visitors in the science of climate change (either through on-site signage or ranger-led programs). The photographs comprising this visual essay, taken over eight weeks of fieldwork from 2017 to 2024, are intended to spark ideas and move the conversation forward.</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7qw9f58f</guid> <pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Lines, Lee</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Tree Mortality, Biome Shifts, and Living Sustainably to Halt Human-Caused Climate Change</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6fh584h8</link> <description>Human-caused climate change has caused extensive tree mortality across West Africa and the western United States and biome shifts around the world. Reducing excessive material consumption by people offers a solution to halt climate change and risks to trees.</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6fh584h8</guid> <pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Gonzalez, Patrick</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Regulating the landscape of protest: The National Park Service National Capital Region as testing ground for First Amendment rights</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/62c9c637</link> <description>This article explores the origins of how NPS manages First Amendment activities in National Capital Parks, concentrating on developments in the 1960s and 1970s. It outlines the emergence of regulations over time, as the agency has sought to reconcile the historical and cultural values of National Capital Parks with the value they hold for civic engagement.</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/62c9c637</guid> <pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Keel, Roneva</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Being Human</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5f32q2rx</link> <description>A poem in the "Verse in Place" section of Parks Stewardship Forum.</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5f32q2rx</guid> <pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Penniman, Naima</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Heritage as a development engine for people in nature: A case study of Wulingyuan Scenic and Historic Interest Area, China</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4zj0q09k</link> <description>This paper explores strategies to promote sustainable tourism for people living in natural areas through a case study implemented in the renowned World Natural Heritage Wulingyuan Scenic and Historic Interest Area, a World Heritage Site inscribed for its natural values. The study is part of the UNESCO World Heritage and Sustainable Tourism Program’s Chinese Pilot Studies. Various interventions, including understanding local values, revitalizing traditional handicrafts, and making culinary innovations, were implemented to enrich tourist experiences, empower local communities, and boost economic opportunities. Based on these interventions, this paper discusses community capacity building, stakeholder engagement, and conflict resolution as initiatives to enhance heritage conservation and promote sustainable tourism at the community level. On the level of the World Heritage property, a new management zone, the Traditional Eco-agricultural Heritage Zone, recognized the residency of...</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4zj0q09k</guid> <pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Han, Feng</name> </author> <author> <name>Li, Jing</name> <uri>https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4960-3331</uri> </author> </item> <item> <title>Integrating natural and cultural approaches in heritage conservation: A Practice Note</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4x5697cb</link> <description>During the first years of Covid, 2020–2023, a group of seven colleagues across three continents—working outside of institutional contexts—prepared a Practice Note on naturecultures. The Practice Note draws together the long-time work, experience, and thinking of the authors, all of whom work in the field of heritage conservation. It gives focus to the improved integration of nature and culture, and cultural heritage and natural heritage, in the work of caring for and safeguarding important places. By promoting awareness of diversity and mutual respect for multiple views and understandings, the Practice Note is concerned with working together, fostering dialogue, and creating long-lasting and equitable approaches to conservation.</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4x5697cb</guid> <pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Heritage Octopus Collective</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>One National Park System—If You Can Keep It</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4nt5s8d7</link> <description>In this "Letter from Woodstock," our columnist looks at the damage done to the National Park System by chronic underfunding from Congress.</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4nt5s8d7</guid> <pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Diamant, Rolf</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>How lived-in landscapes could help rescue the planet: An interview with Tony Hiss</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4603m2jd</link> <description>An interview with the author of the recent book "Rescuing the Planet: Protecting Half the Land to Heal the Earth."</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4603m2jd</guid> <pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Johnson, Shawn</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Enhancing visitor use management in parks and protected areas through qualitative research</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3wz0m4rm</link> <description>Applied research aims to generate knowledge that can be used to improve policy and practice. In the field of visitor use management (VUM), researchers and park managers seek to generate knowledge regarding specific dimensions of visitor experiences within and across parks and other kinds of protected areas. A wide variety of management-centric questions are addressed through VUM research. In this article, we argue that to answer such questions, VUM researchers and managers can use qualitative methods (independent of or coupled with quantitative methods) to deepen our knowledge about visitor experiences while improving visitor use management policies and practices. We present current qualitative research designed to aid in the management of parks, and future directions for qualitative inquiry. Existing qualitative research and future possibilities call to expand our collective understanding of what kind of knowledge “counts” in VUM research.</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3wz0m4rm</guid> <pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Rose, Jeff</name> </author> <author> <name>Zajchowski, Chris</name> </author> <author> <name>Fefer, Jessica</name> </author> <author> <name>Brownlee, Matthew T.J.</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Living landscape conservation is coming of age</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3ss7q9tm</link> <description>An introduction to and summary of the set of theme papers featured in this issue, titled "Politics, practice and the management of living landscapes."</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3ss7q9tm</guid> <pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Mahoney, Eleanor</name> </author> <author> <name>Barrett, Brenda</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Integrating natural and cultural approaches in heritage conservation: Introduction to a Practice Note</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3bv1g74m</link> <description>During the first years of Covid, 2020–2023, a group of seven colleagues across three continents—working outside of institutional contexts—prepared a Practice Note on naturecultures. The Practice Note draws together the long-time work, experience, and thinking of the authors, all of whom work in the field of heritage conservation. It gives focus to the improved integration of nature and culture, and cultural heritage and natural heritage, in the work of caring for and safeguarding important places. By promoting awareness of diversity and mutual respect for multiple views and understandings, the Practice Note is concerned with working together, fostering dialogue, and creating long-lasting and equitable approaches to conservation. In this introduction, we outline the purpose, origins, and the making of the Practice Note.</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3bv1g74m</guid> <pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Buckley, Kristal</name> </author> <author> <name>Brown, Steve</name> </author> <author> <name>Ishizawa, Maya</name> </author> <author> <name>Mitchell, Nora</name> </author> <author> <name>Brown, Jessica</name> </author> <author> <name>Leitão, Leticia</name> </author> <author> <name>Franceschini, Nicole</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>A summary framework for effective engagement of IPLCs and rangers</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2754m0kj</link> <description>In this paper we focus on the pressing need to effectively engage with Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs) and the need to strengthen the capacity of rangers originating from these communities. Opportunities for full participation and leadership by IPLCs are improved by enhancing the role of Indigenous and local rangers in fostering relationships while integrating cultural knowledge into the work on the ground. This also strengthens local benefits. We emphasize the invaluable contribution of IPLCs to conservation, often honed over generations, and explore current models of partnership and engagement. Particularly, we spotlight the vital role of IPLC rangers, who leverage unique skills, local knowledge, and cultural practices in their conservation work. The roles of both IPLCs and local Indigenous rangers are essential if we are to meet our goals for conserving 30% of the earth’s lands and waters by 2030 as promoted at the COP15 meeting of the Convention on Biological...</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2754m0kj</guid> <pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Woodside, Dedee</name> </author> <author> <name>Vasseleu, Jennifer</name> </author> <author> <name>Cobbo, Cliff</name> </author> <author> <name>Singh, Rohit</name> </author> <author> <name>Pyke, Terry</name> </author> <author> <name>Mustonen, Tero</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Conserving an underappreciated heritage resource: The rural landscape</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1fb715pb</link> <description>Rural landscapes make up a significant percentage of the planet’s lands and waterways and must be included in any efforts to address climate change and habitat loss. However, the contribution of these landscapes to cultural heritage and nature conservation is not always appreciated. While there are multiple international designation programs and state-sponsored heritage landscape initiatives, these have a relatively small impact around the globe. This is also true for international programs that attempt to take a holistic perspective to conserving rural heritage. There are some promising community-based and collaborative programs in Australia and the United States, although in both countries, overall agricultural policies are not supportive of these approaches. The lack of recognition of cross-disciplinary practices is a barrier to integrated land management as is the failure to understand that a key factor is the role of people and their relationship with the land. The challenge...</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1fb715pb</guid> <pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Lennon, Jane</name> </author> <author> <name>Barrett, Brenda</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>The Army’s battlefield parks in the US national park system: From grafted branch to poisoned fruit</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/08j5n734</link> <description>The first set of parks created by the United States government under uniform administration was a set of Civil War battlefields under the control of the War Department, or Army. The first battlefield parks were created in the 1890s and expanded into a much larger system stretching across the country. The Army developed these parks with visitor facilities and extensive memorials and monuments. In 1933 the entire system was transferred to the National Park Service and became part of the national park system. These units had been sought by the Park Service to expand the geographical and thematic diversity of its holdings. This work explores the creation of this system by the Army and what has happened to these units after their absorption into the park system. While most were expanded and became more typical park units, others were removed from the system, leaving two in their original condition.</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/08j5n734</guid> <pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Weber, Joe</name> </author> <author> <name>Sultana, Selima</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Preventing Loss of Animal Species Under Human-Caused Climate Change</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8t14p6zg</link> <description>Human-caused climate change has caused the extinction of two animal species and threatens numerous other species. Conservation of potential refugia can reduce risks. Energy conservation and efficiency solutions contribute to halting climate change and saving animal species.</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8t14p6zg</guid> <pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Gonzalez, Patrick</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Implementation of a public use management model in Argentinian National Parks: Lessons learned</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8q5072fz</link> <description>This year marks 200 years of diplomatic relations between the United States and Argentina, which has involved cooperation across a wide range of fields, including tourism. In the interest of finding new approaches to improve the capacity of national parks for public use planning and management and develop mutually beneficial ways to deliver higher-quality visitor experiences, the United States of America Embassy in Buenos Aires, the George Wright Society, the US National Park Service, and the Administration of National Parks in Argentina proposed the “Binational Exchange Program to Enhance Visitor Experiences in National Parks” as a co-learning exchange between the two countries. Through a critical review, this article focuses on the application and adaptation of the US Interagency Visitor Use Management Framework for public use management in five national parks in Argentina. The article offers an overview of the framework, summarizes the project developed with the parks, and,...</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8q5072fz</guid> <pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Mayorga, Marisol</name> </author> <author> <name>Kohl, Jon</name> </author> <author> <name>Sharp, Ryan L.</name> </author> <author> <name>Brownlee, Matthew T.J.</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Taller internacional sobre alianzas entre comunidades indígenas y gobiernos para la gestión de las áreas protegidas: resumen del taller</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6wr1w389</link> <description>El Taller Internacional sobre Alianzas entre Comunidades Indígenas y Gobiernos para la Gestión de las Áreas Protegidas fue llevado a cabo en septiembre del 2022 en las tierras ancestrales de la Tribu Bajo Elwha Klallam. Este evento, auspiciadopor la Tribu Bajo Elwha Klallam, reunió aproximadamente a 55 representantes indígenas y de los gobiernos de los Estados Unidos, Chile, Canadá y México. Los participantes fueron representantes de comunidades y organizaciones indígenas ygobiernos tribales1 involucrados en la gestión de áreas protegidas marinas, costeras y terrestres. También, representantes del gobierno federal elegidos por su relación con las comunidades indígenas y las áreas protegidas con las que se asocian. El taller, el primero de su índole, fue organizado para facilitar el diálogo entre los mismos representantes para compartir sus experiencias únicas, identificar y articular sus preocupaciones y de modo colectivo elaborar recomendaciones para promover la gobernanza compartida...</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6wr1w389</guid> <pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>El Taller internacional sobre alianzas entre comunidades indígenas y gobiernos</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>From Politics to Transformative Politics of Nature in Canada (book excerpt)</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6v02p6mw</link> <description>An excerpt from the opening chapter Transformative Politics of Nature: Overcoming Barriers to Conservation in Canada, edited by Andrea Olive, Chance Finegan, and Karen F. Beazley (University of Toronto Press, 2023).</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6v02p6mw</guid> <pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Beazley, Karen F.</name> </author> <author> <name>Olive, Andrea</name> </author> <author> <name>Finegan, Chance</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>International Workshop on Indigenous Communities and Government Partnerships for Protected Area Management: Workshop Summary Report</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5qf5135c</link> <description>The International Workshop on Indigenous Communities and Government Partnerships for Protected Area Management was held on September 2022 on the homelands of the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe. This event, hosted by the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe, gathered approximately 55 Indigenous and government representatives from the U.S., Chile, Canada, and Mexico. The Participants represented Indigenous communities, organizations, and Tribal governments involved with marine, coastal, and terrestrial protected areas, as well as federal government representatives selected for their existing relationships with the Indigenous communities and the associated protected areas. The workshop, the first of its kind, was organized to facilitate dialogue among the Indigenous community and government representatives to share their unique experiences, identify and address concerns, and collectively develop recommendations to advance shared governance and collaborative management of protected areas with...</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5qf5135c</guid> <pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>International Workshop on Indigenous Communities and Government Partnerships for Protected Area Management</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>US National Park Service and concession staff perceptions regarding waste management in Yosemite, Grand Teton, and Denali National Parks</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5hx7h2fn</link> <description>Each year, over 45,000 metric tons of waste are generated in US national parks through a variety of means, including park operations, visitation, and other sources. In an effort to address these impacts, the National Park Service (NPS) has partnered with commercial and non-profit organizations to implement the Zero Landfill Initiative (ZLI). The goal of the ZLI is to realize a steady decrease in waste generated in parks, and an increase in materials being sent for recycling. Through this initiative and aligning research, efforts to mitigate waste and recycling issues with visitors is underway; however, to date there have been no attempts to understand the perspectives of those individuals who manage these parks on a daily basis. This study explored Theory of Planned Behavior-based constructs regarding disposal of waste and recycling using surveys with NPS employees and park concession staff in Yosemite, Grand Teton, and Denali National Parks. Results indicate that perceived difficulty...</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5hx7h2fn</guid> <pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Taff, B. Derrick</name> </author> <author> <name>Lawhon, Ben</name> </author> <author> <name>Freeman, Stephanie</name> </author> <author> <name>Pitas, Nick</name> </author> <author> <name>Newman, Peter</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Cover, Masthead, and Table of Contents, PSF Vol. 40 No. 2</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5h07x1r0</link> <description>Cover, Masthead, and Table of Contents, PSF Vol. 40 No. 2</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5h07x1r0</guid> <pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>PSF Editorial Team, The</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Gimme Shelter</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4q5618rk</link> <description>In this "Letter from Woodstock," our columnist looks at the acute shortage of affordable housing for National Park Service employees — a problem that is affecting recruitment and retention of agency staff, both permanent and seasonal.</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4q5618rk</guid> <pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Diamant, Rolf</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Recycling</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4c9370q2</link> <description>A poem in the "Verse in Place" section of Parks Stewardship Forum.</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4c9370q2</guid> <pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Lucas, Terry</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Untangling roots: Reflections on eugenics, conservation, and US national parks</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3sx1v9dv</link> <description>This essay reflects some of our preliminary research to understand the relationships of conservation, national parks, and eugenics in the United States and how they affect parks today, as well as actions NPS staff and partners are taking to recognize and reconcile these entangled histories. The roots spread wide and deep, and we have barely scratched the surface. We intend this article as an invitation, to ourselves and our readers, to further exploration and reflection.</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3sx1v9dv</guid> <pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Schmitt, Catherine</name> </author> <author> <name>Cohen, Laura</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Aplicación de un modelo de gestión del uso público en Parques Nacionales de la Argentina: sistematización de una experiencia</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2t46m5vp</link> <description>Este año se cumplen 200 años de relaciones diplomáticas entre Estados Unidos y Argentina, que han implicado la cooperación en una amplia gama de campos, incluido el turismo. En procura de identificar nuevos enfoques para mejorar la capacidad de los parques nacionales para la planificación y gestión del uso público que sean de mutuo beneficio y desarrollar otras formas de ofrecer experiencias de mayor calidad a los visitantes, la Embajada de los Estados Unidos de América en Buenos Aires, la Sociedad George Wright, el Servicio de Parques Nacionales de los Estados Unidos y la Administración de Parques Nacionales de la Argentina propusieron el “Programa Binacional de Intercambio para Mejorar las Experiencias de los Visitantes en los Parques Nacionales” como un intercambio de aprendizaje conjunto entre los dos países. Este artículo presenta la sistematización de la experiencia de la aplicación y adaptación del Modelo Interinstitucional de Manejo de Visitantes de los Estados Unidos...</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2t46m5vp</guid> <pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Mayorga, Marisol</name> </author> <author> <name>Kohl, Jon</name> </author> <author> <name>Sharp, Ryan L.</name> </author> <author> <name>Brownlee, Matthew T.J.</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Walking the Talk in America’s National Parks</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2f43t1wd</link> <description>Drawing on the rich body of literature on the history, philosophy, and practice of walking, the author finds strong connections to the US national parks that he explores in this essay. The piece begins with a brief summary of the walking literature illustrated with photos the author has taken along trails in the national parks, accompanied by extended photo captions that reference some of the intersections between walking and the national parks. The essay concludes with some thoughts about the implications of all this for park management.</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2f43t1wd</guid> <pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Manning, Robert</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Research put into action: How a fossil inventory informed paleontological resource monitoring efforts preceding road construction at Theodore Roosevelt National Park</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9zh573c1</link> <description>Theodore Roosevelt National Park (THRO) in western North Dakota that comprises badlands that surround the Little Missouri River in three separate units. Established initially as a national memorial park in 1947 and redesignated as a national park with its current boundaries in 1978, THRO was founded for its connection to its namesake, the United States president, and continues to memorialize Roosevelt’s ideals of stewardship with its management of its diverse cultural and natural resources. The badlands in the park expose the highly fossiliferous Paleocene-age Bullion Creek and Sentinel Butte Formations that have been investigated extensively outside of the park’s boundaries but not as much within them. Following a survey between 1994 and 1996 and later paleontological discoveries in the park, a Paleontological Resource Inventory was conducted during 2020 and 2021 to gauge these resources within THRO and determine best management and protection practices. This inventory was...</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9zh573c1</guid> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Salcido, Charles</name> </author> <author> <name>Tweet, Justin S.</name> </author> <author> <name>Santucci, Vincent L.</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Ancient bat remains illustrate the role of caves as habitat anchors in the temporally dynamic landscape of the Grand Canyon</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9wf0f6t5</link> <description>Globally, caves provide important refugia for bats. The Grand Canyon, more than 400 km (250 mi) long, consists of steep-sided, rocky formations with hundreds to thousands of natural caves. Two of these, Double Bopper and Leandras Caves, are remarkable because of the presence of desiccated bat carcasses, ranging in condition from skeletal to well-preserved animals identifiable to species. Both caves are complex but differ in length and structure. Double Bopper Cave, &gt;60 km (37 mi) long, is variable with narrow passages. Leandras Cave, 24 km (15 mi) long, has wide, open passages. We surveyed both caves, collecting information for 482 specimens. We initially hypothesized that a single catastrophic event caused the deaths of many individuals or that bats died of various causes over a long period. We expected bat communities to differ between caves, since different cave structures would favor different species based on flight maneuverability. Radiocarbon dating of 67 samples...</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9wf0f6t5</guid> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Chambers, Carol L.</name> </author> <author> <name>Thomas, Shawn</name> </author> <author> <name>Santucci, Vincent L.</name> </author> <author> <name>Oswald, Hattie</name> </author> <author> <name>Ballensky, Jason</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Sharks in the dark: Paleontological resource inventory reveals multiple successive Mississippian Subperiod cartilaginous fish (Chondrichthyes) assemblages within Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9rz2v701</link> <description>A focused search for ancient Mississippian Subperiod marine vertebrates during a paleontological resource inventory of Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky, has yielded a wealth of new fossil data, previously unrecognized at this park. To date, we have identified marine vertebrate fossils from four primary horizons at the park, two of which are the first records of marine vertebrate fossils occurring in those horizons. Mammoth Cave sites have produced more than 70 species of ancient fish, about 90% representing cartilaginous fishes (sharks and kin), including several new species. The paleontological resource inventory of Mammoth Cave demonstrates that this park is an important resource for providing data on how fish assemblages changed during the formation of the super-continent Pangea. The inventory data also can help correct antiquated information on fossil sharks found in the region (in some cases not updated since their publication in the late 19th century).</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9rz2v701</guid> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Hodnett, John-Paul M.</name> </author> <author> <name>Toomey, Rickard</name> </author> <author> <name>Olson, Rickard</name> </author> <author> <name>Tolleson, Kelli</name> </author> <author> <name>Boldon, Richard</name> </author> <author> <name>Wood, Jack</name> </author> <author> <name>Tweet, Justin S.</name> </author> <author> <name>Santucci, Vincent L.</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Microtomography of an enigmatic fossil egg clutch from the Oligocene John Day Formation, Oregon, USA, reveals an exquisitely preserved 29-million-year-old fossil grasshopper ootheca</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/92p9g46q</link> <description>Eggs are one of the least understood life stages of insects, and are poorly represented in the fossil record. Using microtomography, we studied an enigmatic fossil egg clutch of a presumed entomological affinity from the Oligocene Turtle Cove Member, John Day Formation, from the National Park Service-administered lands of John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, Oregon. A highly organized egg mass comprising a large clutch size of approximately 50 slightly curved ellipsoidal eggs arranged radially in several planes is preserved, enclosed in a disc-shaped layer of cemented and compacted soil particles. Based on the morphology of the overall structure and the eggs, we conclude that the specimen represents a fossilized underground ootheca of the grasshoppers and locusts (Orthoptera: Caelifera), also known as an egg pod. This likely represents the oldest and the first unambiguous fossil evidence of a grasshopper egg pod. We describe Subterroothecichnus radialis igen. et...</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/92p9g46q</guid> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Lee, Jaemin</name> </author> <author> <name>Famoso, Nicholas A.</name> </author> <author> <name>Lin, Angela</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>From Yosemite to Presidio: Everyone Welcomed</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8jb0x386</link> <description>In this "Letter from Woodstock," our columnist considers new ideas for welcoming a more diverse group of visitors to Yosemite National Park and the Presidio, part of Golden Gate National Recreation Area.</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8jb0x386</guid> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Diamant, Rolf</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Checking in on fossil sites: Advancing monitoring protocols and techniques for paleontological localities in National Park Service units</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/85t790kg</link> <description>Paleontological site monitoring in National Park Service units can deviate from the recommended cyclical protocol because of unique challenges each unit may face. These challenges include staffing limitations or turnover, difficulty accessing remote sites, and high work volume. Insufficient monitoring of fossil sites might result in the loss of knowledge or data due to degradation or loss of resources. New monitoring protocols were tested at the Copper Canyon ichnofossil locality in Death Valley National Park (DEVA) to address the highlighted management challenges. The monitoring protocol presented here was designed to be streamlined and simple, to be utilized by paleontologists and non-paleontologists alike, and to overcome challenges, thereby, improving undermanaged sites. The monitoring protocol included baseline evaluation and imaging of the 78 track localities within Copper Canyon. Each site was assigned a sensitivity status; identifying its recommended monitoring cyclicity...</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/85t790kg</guid> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Bonde, Aubrey M.</name> </author> <author> <name>Santucci, Vincent L.</name> </author> <author> <name>Nyborg, Torrey</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>How protecting shark teeth can lead to finding dolphins: George Washington Birthplace National Monument as a case study in developing and implementing paleontological resource monitoring</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7zn0h4zw</link> <description>George Washington Birthplace National Monument (GEWA) is a National Park Service (NPS) unit located in the Northern Neck of Virginia, situated on low bluffs overlooking the Potomac River. This small park unit, focused primarily on cultural and historical resources, may seem at first glance to be an unlikely candidate for notable paleontological resources. However, the bluffs are composed in large part of the fossiliferous early–middle Miocene-age Calvert Formation, and these bluffs and the adjacent shoreline have long been known by locals and rockhounds as places to find fossil shark teeth and other fossils. Following initial contact in the late 1990s and early 2000s, the NPS Paleontology Program has worked closely with GEWA since 2014 on the dual aims of stemming illegal fossil collecting and monitoring non-renewable paleontological resources in the face of rising river levels, increasing storms, and other effects of climate change. The working relationship is a case study...</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7zn0h4zw</guid> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Tweet, Justin S.</name> </author> <author> <name>Santucci, Vincent L.</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>The price of neglect: Revisiting Fossil Cycad National Monument (1922–1957)</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6xd27263</link> <description>The history associated with the discovery, research, preservation, protection, and loss of the fossil cycadeoid locality near Minnekahta in the southern Black Hills of South Dakota—which for 35 years was designated as Fossil Cycad National Monument—has gained considerable public attention. Several publications have attempted to capture portions of this history through the assimilation of information from archives, reports, correspondence, photographs, and other records associated with the monument. Previously unknown records continue to emerge, helping to expand and reshape the understanding of the monument’s unfortunate history, and also raising new questions. Some of the newly uncovered information is presented here. Additionally, several questions are identified that hopefully might be advanced through communication with individuals who are able to share additional information or historical records to fill in some of the gaps related to the history of Fossil Cycad National...</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6xd27263</guid> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Santucci, Vincent L.</name> </author> <author> <name>Tweet, Justin S.</name> </author> <author> <name>Connors, Tim</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Origins and Innovations of Science in the US National Parks: The 2023 Leopold Lecture at the University of California, Berkeley</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6ws9499q</link> <description>A brief report on the latest annual A. Starker Leopold Lecture, with a link to video of the lecture.&nbsp; The speakers were Jerry Emory and Alison Forrestel.</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6ws9499q</guid> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>PSF Editorial Team, The</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Almost Human</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/66t6z0dc</link> <description>A poem in the "Verse in Place" section of Parks Stewardship Forum.</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/66t6z0dc</guid> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Markus, Peter</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>The dinosaur-bearing rocks of Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve: A fossil resource of global interest</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6251h16x</link> <description>The first discovery of any dinosaur remains in a US National Park Service unit in Alaska occurred in 2001 in Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve. The record consisted of the track of a pes impression, or track made by the foot of a hadrosaur (duck-billed dinosaur) and an associated manus impression, or track made by a hand. Subsequent work has shown the original track discovery was not unique, and that the coastal exposures of the Cretaceous Chignik Formation in Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve contain a remarkable number of tracks. Further, because of the limited faulting, the several hundred meters of section found along this coastal set of exposures provide a remarkably complete look at an ancient high-latitude dinosaurian ecosystem and are of outstanding universal value.</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6251h16x</guid> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Fiorillo, Anthony R.</name> </author> <author> <name>Hamon, Troy</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Incredible discoveries and devastation of paleontological resources in a changing world preserved at White Sands National Park</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5px1t983</link> <description>In recent years the discovery of paleontological and archaeological resources exposed because of natural disasters and rapid erosion—mostly linked to climate change—has occurred at a phenomenal rate. Each year wildfires, floods, landsides, retreating glaciers, snow melt, soil erosion, and receding lakes and reservoirs are uncovering valuable resources. Unfortunately, these same forces often lead to the loss of these resources before they can be preserved or documented. At White Sands National Park, as moisture within the soil is being reduced by persistent droughts and rising temperatures, 23,000-year-old fossil prints of people and Ice Age megafauna are being exposed—and then rapidly lost to soil erosion. Consequently, there is an urgent need to document the fossil prints before the record is lost. This is a concern not only for White Sands, but also for dry lake beds throughout the Southwest and around the world where fossil prints may not have yet been discovered but are...</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5px1t983</guid> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Bustos, David</name> </author> <author> <name>Santucci, Vincent L.</name> </author> <author> <name>Odess, Daniel</name> </author> <author> <name>Martinez, Patrick J.</name> </author> <author> <name>Connelly, Clare J.</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Cover, Masthead, and Table of Contents, PSF Vol. 40 No. 1</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/54j5223c</link> <description>Cover, Masthead, and Table of Contents, PSF Vol. 40 No. 1</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/54j5223c</guid> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>PSF Editorial Team, The</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Fossil woods of Yellowstone National Park</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4n08k0cb</link> <description>Among the wonders of Yellowstone National Park are the spectacular fossil forests of Amethyst Mountain and Specimen Ridge in the northeastern section of the park and the Gallatin Fossil Forests in the northwestern section. In 1898, John Muir, who was instrumental in establishing the US National Park System, wrote: “Yonder is Amethyst Mountain … beneath the living trees the edges of petrified forests are exposed to view ... standing on ledges tier above tier where they grew, solemnly silent in rigid crystalline beauty after swaying in the wind thousands of centuries ago, opening marvelous views back into the years and climates and life of the past time.” Muir’s visit to Amethyst Mountain was no doubt prompted by the early descriptions and diagrams showing multiple layers of fossil forests there (Figure 1A) (Holmes 1878, 1879). Specimen Ridge and the Gallatin Fossil Forests also have successive tiers of fossil forests. Erling Dorf’s 1964 Scientific American article “The...</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4n08k0cb</guid> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Wheeler, Elisabeth A.</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Interdisciplinary approaches to reconciling legacy paleontological collections to advance discovery and improve resource management</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3z8967ct</link> <description>Like many National Park Service sites, Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument in Nevada has associated off-site legacy paleontological collections in museum repositories across North America. These legacy paleontological collections, which were created during past expeditions, are at risk of becoming forgotten or inaccessible, yet they hold the potential to revisit old questions and old sites utilizing new techniques, methods, and ideas. The authors present a case study that outlines a suggested framework to reconcile problematic or underutilized legacy paleontological collections based on the 2020–2023 inventory of the Southwest Museum Expedition Tule Springs Collection curated at the Autry Museum of the American West. The authors also explore the effectiveness of an interdisciplinary approach to paleontological resource management. Digitization of associated historic archives and photographs can help assign updated geologic context to unprovenienced fossils, as well as...</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3z8967ct</guid> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Parry, Lauren E.</name> </author> <author> <name>Eichenberg, Erin E.</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Discovery, preservation, and protection of notable paleontological resources from Dinosaur National Monument, Utah and Colorado</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3rm0h7br</link> <description>Dinosaur National Monument was established in 1915 to protect and preserve the globally significant paleontological resources of the Carnegie Dinosaur Quarry. The park was expanded in 1938 and now protects 210,844.02 acres in northeastern Utah and northwestern Colorado. Extensive inventory, monitoring, excavation, and research work has taken place in the monument, mostly focusing on the Late Jurassic-age Morrison Formation over the past 113 years since the Carnegie Quarry’s discovery in 1909. This work has helped to increase not only our knowledge of the dinosaur fauna, but also of the less well-known reptiles, amphibians, mammals, invertebrates, and plant communities that lived alongside these Jurassic giants. To protect and preserve these notable fossil discoveries, Dinosaur National Monument has explored several approaches. Public tours of the Carnegie Quarry have taken place since its discovery in 1909. In the early 1950s the monument erected a temporary building over a...</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3rm0h7br</guid> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Hunt-Foster, ReBecca</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>The National Park System fossil record: Uncovering significant new paleontological discoveries through inventory, monitoring, research and museum curation</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3rg9v728</link> <description>The fossil record preserved throughout the parks, monuments, and other areas administered by the National Park Service spans at least 1.4 billion years and reveals rich and diverse paleontological resources available for scientific research and public education. Fossils documented in at least 286 different NPS areas represent important and iconic components of the history of North American paleontology. Our knowledge of the fossil record within the national parks continuously expands based on new paleontological discoveries every year. Most of the new fossil discoveries are associated with four primary management activities undertaken by the NPS Paleontology Program, parks, partners, and cooperating scientists: paleontological resource inventories, monitoring, research, and assessment of fossils curated in museum collections. Paleontological resource inventories focus on the scope, significance, distribution (both temporal and geospatial), and resource management issues associated...</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3rg9v728</guid> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Santucci, Vincent L.</name> </author> <author> <name>Tweet, Justin S.</name> </author> <author> <name>Visaggi, Christy</name> </author> <author> <name>Hodnett, John-Paul M.</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Past, present, and future: A synthesis of paleontological resource monitoring and management at Badlands National Park</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3994n8pj</link> <description>Paleontological monitoring at Badlands National Park is extremely complex. The monitoring program has steadily evolved from its formalization in 1994 with the hiring of the first park paleontologist. Changing regulations, increases in protections for paleontological resources, positive interdivisional communication, sympathetic leadership, and the hiring of a full-time monitor have allowed staff to move from being purely reactive to taking an active role in planning park projects. This entails commenting on compliance through the National Park Service’s Planning, Environment &amp; Public Comment portal, conducting pre-construction surveys, attending pre-construction meetings, providing resource training for construction personnel, consulting with the Federal Highway Administration as subject-matter experts, and acting as the contracting officer’s representative on select projects. The monitoring program strives to hire qualified personnel according to best practice guidelines...</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3994n8pj</guid> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Thompson, Wayne A.</name> </author> <author> <name>Starck, Ellen N.</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>No longer news that’s fit to print? Climate change goes missing from national park newspapers</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/31q2z0w1</link> <description>Every year approximately 300 million Americans visit at least one of the over 420 units of the US National Park System. At many parks, visitors pass through an entrance gate where a ranger provides a map and newspaper for wayfinding and essential information, while at many others a map and newspaper are freely available at visitor centers and other locations. Surveys involving 19 units of the National Park System that are designated as “national parks” suggest that approximately 37% of their visitors use the newspapers provided to them, meaning that the newspapers reach more than 30 million visitors each year in these parks alone. We propose that park newspapers are well-placed but underappreciated assets for park managers to set an agenda communicating climate change to hard-to-reach audiences. Therefore, we conducted a series of analyses, focused on 17 parks that published newspapers on a near-annual basis from 2005–2022, to examine climate change coverage in them. We found...</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/31q2z0w1</guid> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Lull, Robert B.</name> </author> <author> <name>Wise, Wesley</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Find Hope with Climate Crisis Triage</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2nk7291x</link> <description>This visual essay in "The Photographer's Frame" draws on the example of highway accident triage to apply principles of "Protect—Assess—Act" to the climate change crisis as a way people can build hope over hopelessness.</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2nk7291x</guid> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Davis, Gary E.</name> </author> <author> <name>Davis, Dorothy A.</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Updating conservation techniques for paleontology collections associated with Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2nc3t9dq</link> <description>Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument (FLFO) was established to protect the rare abundance and diversity of fossil resources preserved in the Florissant Formation. The majority of fossils are plants and insects preserved in laminated shale, which is prone to conservation issues. These issues result from the inherent thinness of individual laminae (≥0.1 mm) and high clay content, and, during collection, sharp fluctuations in relative humidity (RH) and moisture content. The purpose of this paper is to describe historical and current stabilization methods, and report on two current research efforts at separate institutions to mediate these issues using controlled drying techniques and selection of appropriate adhesives and consolidants following best practices in fossil preparation. Response of shale units to humidity is being investigated at the Western Archeological and Conservation Center facility in Tucson, Arizona, along with the viability of consolidation with tetraethyl...</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2nc3t9dq</guid> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>O'Connor, Conni J.</name> </author> <author> <name>Burr, Elizabeth</name> </author> <author> <name>Cooper, Catherine</name> </author> <author> <name>Meyer, Herbert W.</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Keeping Snow and Ice Frozen with Renewable Energy Solutions to Halt Climate Change</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2n46j7bh</link> <description>Human-caused climate change has reduced snowfall and melted snowpack, glaciers, and sea ice around the world. Eliminating coal, oil, and other fossil fuels and replacing them with solar, wind, and other renewable energy is essential to halt climate change.</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2n46j7bh</guid> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Gonzalez, Patrick</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Breaking out of the fishbowl: Integrating paleontological resource management and public engagement while inspiring stewardship through an open-door fossil preparation lab at Badlands National Park</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/27f5d09g</link> <description>Badlands National Park has been implementing an experimental “open door” concept to their fossil preparation lab, where visitors are allowed into the workspace to experience paleontological work behind the scenes. The combined effort of Resource Education and Resource Management divisions have addressed safety and security issues to optimize the maximum benefits towards resource stewardship as well as public education and enjoyment. These efforts have manifested through various interpretive opportunities combined with strategies towards visitor inclusion into the scientific realm, through encouraging citizen science. The efforts supporting the “open door” lab concept has provided significant, measurable impacts towards inspiring public engagement and stewardship. Since the lab’s opening, there has been a 400% increase in Visitor Site Reports, the parks fossil reporting citizen science program. The past decade of having an “open door” lab has led to the revelation that if the...</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/27f5d09g</guid> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Welsh, Ed</name> </author> <author> <name>Carpenter, Mary</name> </author> <author> <name>Starck, Ellen N.</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Health challenges of rangers—a planetary health workforce</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1d70d3wk</link> <description>Rangers safeguard the balance between humans and nature by protecting and managing biodiversity and natural resources. The challenging working conditions that rangers face make them vulnerable to wildlife attacks and exposure to zoonotic and vector-borne diseases. Despite all of these work-related challenges and threats to their health, a vast majority of rangers lack access to adequate medical treatment facilities. This research has used data from the one of the largest and most comprehensive surveys of rangers across multiple countries, collected as part of the Global Ranger Perception Survey, to examine the relationship between the precarious working conditions of rangers and their health outcomes. By comparing data from the 2020 World Malaria Report, our study highlights the severe malaria burden carried by rangers around the world. Malaria prevalence in rangers working in Central Africa, East Africa, and South America was estimated to be four times higher than in the general...</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1d70d3wk</guid> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Rerolle, Francois</name> </author> <author> <name>Singh, Rohit</name> </author> <author> <name>Mascari, Thomas</name> </author> <author> <name>Aisha, Hamera</name> </author> <author> <name>Avino, Felipe Spina</name> </author> <author> <name>Gajardo, Osvaldo Barassi</name> </author> <author> <name>Urh, Melina</name> </author> <author> <name>Mcvey, Drew</name> </author> <author> <name>Belecky, Mike</name> </author> <author> <name>Moreto, William</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>New perspectives on NPS paleontological resource stewardship: Scientific, curatorial, and educational outcomes at Petrified Forest National Park</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0sc9p7hf</link> <description>Petrified Forest National Park (PEFO) was established to preserve fossils from the Triassic Period. After long relying solely on external partners, an internal program was established consisting of permanent staff and appropriate facilities to manage these extensive resources, primarily through active collection and curation. Goals based on National Park Service (NPS) policies allow managers to guide internal research priorities and those of external partners, more effectively reducing repetitive studies and increasing collaborations. Student interns play a crucial part of this effort, and many have gone on to establish or augment paleontology programs at other institutions and federal agencies, developing new partnerships with the NPS. PEFO permanent staff grew as park and regional management recognized the utility of the program. PEFO staff collaboratively develop new collecting and laboratory processing techniques that preserve high quality data, including a public laboratory...</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0sc9p7hf</guid> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Parker, William G.</name> </author> <author> <name>Marsh, Adam D.</name> </author> <author> <name>Smith, Matthew E.</name> </author> <author> <name>Kligman, Ben T.</name> </author> <author> <name>Wagner, Deborah E.</name> </author> <author> <name>Varela, Phillip</name> </author> <author> <name>Boudreau, Diana M.</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Searching for the “S” Word at Gettysburg: The Battlefield in the Era of Black Lives Matter</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9052g71q</link> <description>The author returns to Gettysburg National Military Park nearly 20 years following the publication of her book The Colors of Courage, Gettysburg’s Forgotten Battles to see how things might have changed in terms of what visitors learn when they come to the park and the surrounding borough.</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9052g71q</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Creighton, Margaret</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Wildfire, Climate Change, Forest Resilience, and Carbon Solutions</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/86t493p4</link> <description>Wildfire is natural in many temperate forests but unnatural in tropical rainforests and certain other ecosystems. Human-caused climate change is intensifying the heat that drives wildfire. Preventive burning in temperate forests, halting deforestation in tropical forests, and cutting carbon pollution reduce wildfire risks and increase forest resilience under climate change.</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/86t493p4</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Gonzalez, Patrick</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Omnipresent Stories</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/85w6m2q3</link> <description>A poem in the "Verse in Place" section of Parks Stewardship Forum.</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/85w6m2q3</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Rogers, Pattiann</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>To Lift All Boats: An Interview with Jerry Emory, Author of George Meléndez Wright: The Fight for Wildlife and Wilderness in the National Parks</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7069c4xm</link> <description>In this "Letter from Woodstock," our columnist interviews the author of the first-ever biography of George Meléndez Wright, pioneering conservationist and namesake of the George Wright Society.</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7069c4xm</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Diamant, Rolf</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>The Second Stage of Violence: An Excerpt from Violence and Public Memory</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6xt2f7dv</link> <description>In this excerpt from his introduction to Violence and Public Memory, editor Martin Blatt discusses his family history connected to the Holocaust and how this history propelled him to a lifelong commitment to social justice through the telling of history in public contexts. He then identifies how the relationship of violence to public memory has been a central theme throughout his professional career as a public historian. Blatt proceeds to define how he employs the terms “violence” and “public memory” in this book. He examines contemporary literature and the public history arena to highlight exemplary works focused on violence and public memory. Subsequently, he highlights a range of publications that examine this connection. Blatt explores the contents of this edited volume regarding geography, types of memorialization, and historical timeframe. He stresses his belief that the measure of the integrity of a nation or culture is the degree to which there is an unflinching...</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6xt2f7dv</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Blatt, Martin Henry</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Remembering Labor Conflict as an American Battlefield</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6fr7w9kz</link> <description>Anthracite coal extraction developed in northeastern Pennsylvania during the late 18th century, and through the early 20th century the industry was supported by new waves of immigration. New immigrant workers faced various forms of structural racism, often being underpaid, assigned the toughest jobs, and provided substandard housing. In 1897, as 400 men marched on a public road with the goal of closing a company mine, a sheriff and his posse fired upon them, killing 19. An additional six men died a few days later of gunshot wounds. While the incident, known as the Lattimer Massacre, was noted as one of the most tragic labor strikes in US history, the event faded from national public memory within a few decades. A type of historical amnesia settled in until 75 years later when the community and labor organizations erected a memorial near the site. Although annual commemorations are now held at the site, the Lattimer Massacre remains absent from textbooks and it is still not...</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6fr7w9kz</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Shackel, Paul</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>The Winds of Minidoka: Preserving the Japanese American Past</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6cc5m762</link> <description>Like other sites of Japanese American incarceration, Minidoka Relocation Center was long neglected after World War II. Buildings were removed or deteriorated, and few visited the isolated spot. Increased public recognition of the injustice of mass incarceration, culminating in the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, catalyzed public history projects to preserve sites of Nikkei1 World War II history and led to the eventual establishment of Minidoka National Historic Site. In recent years, significant restoration and interpretation projects have transformed the site, providing visitors with a rich historical context. However, its future is threatened by a proposed massive wind farm near the historic site. The project has mobilized both Japanese Americans and local Idahoans in resistance for divergent reasons that speak to the historical tensions over land use in the American West. The situation underscores the precarious state of Japanese American history, how its establishment and...</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6cc5m762</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Hayashi, Robert T.</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Examining Factors Influencing the Governance of Large Landscape Conservation Initiatives</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5r421544</link> <description>With increasing threats facing ecosystems around the world, conservationists are looking for innovative approaches to address the complex nature of transboundary issues. Large landscape conservation (LLC) extends beyond protected area boundaries and potentially national borders. Though the recognition of LLC is growing, we have a limited understanding of what supports or inhibits LLC efforts across diverse geographies, which limits the efficacy of LLC as a strategy to combat ecological threats. Networks can provide support for individual LLC initiatives through collaboration, knowledge exchange, and resource mobilization. Despite the growth in LLC initiatives around the world, there has been a lack of research assessing a network of initiatives—research that is critical to complement individual case studies. To gain a greater understanding of LLC, we conducted a survey of the Transboundary Conservation and the Connectivity Conservation Specialist Groups of the IUCN World Commission...</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5r421544</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Mirza, Sanober R.</name> </author> <author> <name>Thomsen, Jennifer M.</name> </author> <author> <name>Wurtzebach, Zachary</name> </author> <author> <name>Oppler, Gabriel</name> </author> <author> <name>Halvorson, Sarah J.</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Back to the Battlefields: An Introduction</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5g12x982</link> <description>This short essay introduces the featured theme articles in this issue of Parks Stewardship Forum, titled "Back to the Battlefields: Historians Take a Fresh Look at American Sites of Conflict. In early 2022, we issued invitations to a select group of scholars who had written penetratingly on sites of conflict and commemoration. We asked them to travel to a particular site and take a look at it in a reflective mode, pondering what led to the conflict memorialized at that place and reflecting on the site’s meaning and how it has changed over the years, how their own personal understanding of the site has evolved, and the site’s relevance to America’s current socio-political situation. We also gave them license to analyze how well interpretation at “their” site presents historic events within a broader historical context, connects lessons of the site’s story (or stories) to contemporary issues and concerns, and encourages meaningful engagement from diverse audiences. The...</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5g12x982</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Conard, Rebecca</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Revisiting Slavery, the Civil War, and Reconciliation at Arlington National Cemetery and Arlington House</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/50m6z8jh</link> <description>Arlington National Cemetery, containing the graves of around 400,000 people, mostly veterans, is one of the United States’ most treasured cultural sites. The site also contains Arlington House, former enslaved labor plantation and home of Confederate general Robert E. Lee. Together, the cemetery and the plantation house played important roles in the divisions of the Civil War; the flawed North–South reconciliation that took place in the decades that followed; and the struggles over racial equality and historical memory that have continued into the 21st century. Following a National Park Service rehabilitation of Arlington House, accounts of enslaved people and their descendants are now considerably more prominent in the historical interpretation. Yet questions remain over how best to remember slavery, the Confederacy, and the Civil War.</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/50m6z8jh</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Quigley, Paul</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Ripples of Memory from Sand Creek</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4d7882sd</link> <description>On November 29, 1864, troops from the 1st and 3rd Colorado Regiments attacked an Arapaho and Cheyenne peace camp along the banks of Sand Creek in southeastern Colorado Territory. The soldiers killed some 200 or more Native people, razed what remained of their village, and desecrated the bodies of the dead. Initially celebrated by Colorado settlers as a heroic battle, in time the violence came to be known nationally as the Sand Creek Massacre. Almost a century and a half later, on April 27, 2007, the National Park Service opened its 391st unit: Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site. This essay explores the politics of memory surrounding the Sand Creek Massacre, focusing on the impact of the historic site in reshaping official and popular recollections in the 16 years since it opened to the public.</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4d7882sd</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Kelman, Ari</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>“As They Have Formerly Done”: Unraveling the Entanglements at Historic Fort Snelling</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4709f8vw</link> <description>The United States built Fort Snelling at the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers in the 1820s. Initially conceived as a means to protect American interests in the region, the fort was used in military operations across multiple wars until it was decommissioned in 1946. This essay examines the fort’s role in American expansion, particularly through the lens of the US–Dakota War of 1862. In the wake of the war, Dakota survivors were forced to spend the winter in a concentration camp erected outside the fort. A century later, efforts to restore and reconstruct the fort led to the opening of Historic Fort Snelling in 1970. The fort’s lengthy history—and its role in so many historical eras and events—has led to continued contestations over interpretation at the site, and even the name itself.</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4709f8vw</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Phillips, Katrina M.</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Meeting visitor interest to advance conservation: A study from Indiana Dunes National Park, USA</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/45n5m6fc</link> <description>Thousands of visitors to parks take part in ranger-led programs annually. During these programs rangers work to evoke and maintain interest in order to connect visitors with cultural and natural resources. Researchers have found interest is a powerful driver of learning, yet its role in the experience of adults who participate in ranger-led programming has not been well studied. Open-ended telephone interviews conducted months after a ranger-led hike to a prominent dune in Indiana Dunes National Park illustrate the extent to which visitors’ recollections show continuity with their reasons for attending the ranger-led hike and their uptake of resource messages. Like other ranger-led programming, this hike was designed to make intellectual and emotional connections, to fuel long-held interests, and activate new stewards. The program was the result of collaboration among rangers and local scientists. Responses to a pre-hike survey were matched with post-hike recollections transcribed...</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/45n5m6fc</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Merson, Martha</name> </author> <author> <name>Valoura, Leila</name> </author> <author> <name>Forist, Brian E.</name> </author> <author> <name>Hristov, Nickolay I.</name> </author> <author> <name>Allen, Louise C.</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Old Battles Are New Again: Revisiting the Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3cs7c79w</link> <description>The author revists Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail, created by Congress to commemorate the historic march of 1965. The only African American site in the entire National Trail System, Selma to Montgomery represents the historical tension between the ideals of American democracy, where all citizens have equal protection and equal rights by law, and the reality of the fight waged by Black voters against discrimination in America. Further, the trail represents the struggle to preserve the history and memory of civil rights sites of conflict as a part of the nation’s historical landscape. Finally, the trail represents the symbolic battle, in real time, of the voting rights movement (which some characterize as “a relic of the past”) in the face of ongoing tangible assaults on voting rights in the 21st century.</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3cs7c79w</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>White, Tara Y.</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>National Parks Can Improve Society by Revealing Destructive Historical Conflicts</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/32z8n69r</link> <description>This visual essay in "The Photographer's Frame" investigates the potential of using experiential learning in the National Park System to mitigate the repetition of harmful societal practices, such as relying on destructive conflict to resolve differences of opinions and beliefs.</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/32z8n69r</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Davis, Gary E.</name> </author> <author> <name>Davis, Dorothy A.</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>From “Gibraltar of the Chesapeake” to “Freedom’s Fortress”: Reinterpreting Fort Monroe</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/13n17595</link> <description>Historians, community activists, leaders with the Fort Monroe Authority, and the National Park Service collaborated to reimagine the legacy of Fort Monroe, long known as the “Gibraltar of the Chesapeake,” after 188 years of service as a military base. However, Fort Monroe also was the site where America’s institution of slavery began evolving and where that institution also began unraveling. This is the legacy that is foregrounded for 21st-century visitors. In 2019, Fort Monroe hosted the commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the landing of the first Africans in the Virginia colony. A new Welcome Center focuses on this legacy. While Fort Monroe continues to highlight its military history and the natural landscape to countless visitors, the primary narrative interprets 1619 and the Civil War-era contraband story. Adding to this important story is the 2021 designation of Fort Monroe as a Site of Memory Associated to the Slave Route by the United Nations Educational,...</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/13n17595</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Newby-Alexander, Cassandra</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Cover, Masthead, and Table of Contents, PSF Vol. 39 No. 3</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0k05n69h</link> <description>Cover, Masthead, and Table of Contents, PSF Vol. 39 No. 3</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0k05n69h</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>PSF Editorial Team, The</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Greco in Oz</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9cz9x4c3</link> <description>An overseas trip provides adventure, self-discovery, and a measure of healing to the author.</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9cz9x4c3</guid> <pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Greco, CJ</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Cover, Masthead, and Table of Contents PSF Vol. 39 No. 2</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9cx8h3zh</link> <description>Cover, Masthead, and Table of Contents PSF Vol. 39 No. 2</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9cx8h3zh</guid> <pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>PSF Editorial Team, The</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>The designation of Stonewall National Monument: Path and impact</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/97s7j5nw</link> <description>This article provides two different perspectives on the designation of Stonewall National Monument. which was proclaimed by President Obama in 2016. First, former National Park Service (NPS) Director Jonathan Jarvis shares his experiences leading up to and beyond the designation. In the second section, Megan Springate places Stonewall into the larger context of the NPS Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ+) heritage initiative and the preparation of LGBTQ America, the LGBTQ+ theme study, which is a document commissioned by the National Park Foundation for the National Park Service.</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/97s7j5nw</guid> <pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Jarvis, Jonathan B.</name> </author> <author> <name>Springate, Megan E.</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Understanding the outdoors and conservation through a queer lens</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/91k2g31x</link> <description>A brief introduction to the theme articles on LGBTQIA+ Experiences and Expertise in the Outdoors and in Conservation.</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/91k2g31x</guid> <pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Forist, Brian</name> </author> <author> <name>Heath, Sandy</name> </author> <author> <name>King-Cortes, Forrest</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Restoring the great cloud forests of Santa Rosa Island</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8xd398j0</link> <description>This visual essay in "The Photographer's Frame" describes the restoration of oak and pine forests on an island in Channel Islands National Park, California.</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8xd398j0</guid> <pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Warneke, Alexandria</name> </author> <author> <name>Lombardo, Keith</name> </author> <author> <name>Ready, Michael</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Queering eco-activism: Ways of organizing and uplifting conservation efforts by queer and trans eco-activists</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8j40w37v</link> <description>This essay explores a cohort of eco-activists within the queer and trans community who specifically link social justice concerns with environmental activism. Areas of focus include climate crisis, activist eco-interventions, the development of social media platforms as eco-activist hotspots, and sites (places) of public protest. An intersectional environmentalist framework is applied throughout this paper, highlighting insights and strategies by queer and trans eco-activists of color.</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8j40w37v</guid> <pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>DeMirjyn, Maricela</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Neurodivergence is also an LGBTQ+ topic: Making space for “neuroqueering” in the outdoors</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8701n3d5</link> <description>Recently, the field of research exploring the links between neurodivergence and the LGBTQ+ community has grown. Many queer adults who were not diagnosed as children are just now receiving neurodivergent diagnoses. Nick Walker coined the term “neuroqueer” in 2015 to describe the intersection of being both neurodivergent and queer. “Neuroqueering” refers to the embodying and expressing of one’s neurodivergence in ways that also queer one’s performance of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and/or other aspects of one’s identity (Walker 2021). Considering the increase of queer representation in the outdoors, it is necessary to also address neuroqueering and its implications for the outdoor community. This conceptual article will address the connection between neurodivergence and the LGBTQ+ community, implications for the queer outdoors, and ways to include neuroqueer recreationalists and outdoor advocates in efforts to make the outdoors more equitable.</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8701n3d5</guid> <pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Loy-Ashe, Tarah</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Out in Nature</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7x84x3ms</link> <description>A introduction and link to a short video on the queer meetup group Out In Nature.</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7x84x3ms</guid> <pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Chapman, Corinne</name> </author> <author> <name>Greco, CJ</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Natural Carbon Solutions Contribute to Halting Climate Change</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7vb9707t</link> <description>By storing carbon in vegetation and soils, ecosystems naturally prevent emissions that cause climate change. Protected areas effectively conserve forests and carbon. Halting deforestation would cut 10% of global carbon emissions.</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7vb9707t</guid> <pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Gonzalez, Patrick</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Queer ecology through national park social media</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7rx845wd</link> <description>A collaboration between Zion National Park and Stonewall National Monument produces two social media posts that give examples of queer ecology.</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7rx845wd</guid> <pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Farish, Abi</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>The Science of __________</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7pz4f78g</link> <description>A poem in the "Verse in Place" section of Parks Stewardship Forum.</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7pz4f78g</guid> <pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Koets, Julia</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Planning for change: Lessons of survival from queer and trans lives</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7gn1t37k</link> <description>Drawing on the case of parks and marginal spaces in Chicago, considered as novel ecosystems, this essay works to unpack some of the costs and limitations of how conservation value has been defined by conservationists. Namely, conservation value tends to center pristine, historical ecosystems like tallgrass prairie over the small pockets where many native species continue to survive and form new ecological relationships. By engaging queer and trans theories and thinkers who argue that fixation on the past can limit evaluations of the present, I argue for a wider vision of conservation value that is more open to creative possibilities for survival into the future.</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7gn1t37k</guid> <pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Garrett, Cal Lee</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Centering narratives from the margins: Interpretive tools for destabilizing colonial foundations</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/79h365zn</link> <description>Place matters. It connects people to nature, ancestry and culture, history, and complex emotions that are much harder to name. Place fosters a sense of identity and a sense of belonging. As interpreters, we have a habit of prescribing meaning to place, and after some time, we take that meaning as the only meaning that a place has. We share it with visitors at parks, museums, or other heritage sites, and hope that they garner as much thrill from the place we love as we do. But a place’s meaning is not set in stone, nor is it singular. Interpreters can present multiple perspectives, but there will always be other perspectives that they do not know; after all, an interpreter is just one person. The perspectives and meanings of place are complicated, and the narratives that have dominated the field of interpretation, especially in the United States, have been framed by a colonial past, which persists in our present. Centering narratives from the margins, or narratives from groups...</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/79h365zn</guid> <pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Porteroff, Shelbie</name> </author> </item> <item> <title>Coming out as a gay ranger in the era of the assassination of Harvey Milk and the HIV/AIDS crisis</title> <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7899h4sr</link> <description>The essay tells the story of a gay man, working as a National Park Service ranger, coming out to himself and in his workplace. This personal story parallels the national reckoning with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex and Asexual + issues ,including the assassination of the first openly gay elected official in San Francisco and the unfolding crisis of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The story tells how secrets can impact employee confidence and careers. It also shows how seemingly benign actions by colleagues and supervisors can have both positive and negative effects on the personal coming out process. It also suggests how supportive actions and the workplace environment can strengthen both the individual and the agency.</description> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7899h4sr</guid> <pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <author> <name>Sealy, Dan</name> </author> </item> </channel> </rss>