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Celebrating Yosemite Part 8 – The Stoneman Meadow Riots and Problem of Law...
Scroll to bottom of post for the remainder of letter. Few events in Yosemite’s history remain as divisive as the July 4, 1970 Stoneman Meadow Riot, which had become a well-established gathering place...
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Celebrating Yosemite Part 9: Wilderness in Yosemite
The Wilderness Act turns fifty this month. Signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson on September 3, 1964, the act has had a profound impact on how we all enjoy National Parks by limiting front...
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Celebrating Yosemite Part 10: The Sagebrush Rebellion’s Unlike Manifestation...
Located just four miles inside Yosemite National Park, the small community of Wawona appears as an unlikely place for which Sage Brush Rebellion to take hold. But in 1978, the former stage stop within...
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Celebrating Yosemite Part 11: The 1997 Merced Flood and the Future of Yosemite
A rare tropical storm pounded the Sierras with rain throughout New Years Eve day, 1997. The warm rains melted the heavy mountain winter snows, causing flooding across the region. In the Yosemite...
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Celebrating Yosemite 12: Closing Thoughts and Hiking Half Dome
When I began thinking about writing a book on Yosemite my wife insisted that I simply could not write a story of the park’s administration throughout its 150-year history. Rather, I must write about...
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A Culture of Fear: Sexism’s Ugly Role in Federal Land Agencies
Introduced in 1970, the NPS offered seven different women’s uniforms, all included short skirts made of thin material. Most infamous were the go-go boots, when combined with the skirt offered a highly...
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Eldora Ski Resort and A Hopeful (?) Future for Public Lands
By Mike Childers As mud season hits and westerners began dreaming of warmer days, the future of Eldora Mountain Resort appears to be a little more hopeful as concerned locals are now working with the...
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A Call for Conservation — the National Park Service at 100
By Michael Childers Today marks the centennial of the National Park Service. Established in 1916 to “conserve the scenery and the national and historic objects and the wild life therein and to provide...
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This Day of Remembrance – Ansel Adams at Manzanar
By Mike Childers At Manzanar, in the presence of the ancient mountains, another tragic episode of history struggles for solution. Because of evacuation enforced by military order all along the coast,...
View ArticleTwo historians walk into a sound booth: A Review of the out×LAND×ish podcast
By Mike Childers Iowa Public Radio’s sound booth sits just inside the station’s front doors. An enormous window allows those passing through the lounge outside to watch whoever is inside the sound...
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