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National Parks and Minorities

By Erik Loomis

In General

On July 13, 2015

Glenn Nelson challenges the National Park Service to do more to welcome minorities. He notes how very few visitors to national parks are people of color and the very strong disconnect between these central places in the American experience and minorities. The place to start...

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Pullman

By Erik Loomis

On February 19, 2015

As I have urged for some time, President Obama will be naming the Pullman site a national monument today. This is a great thing for those who are interested in.

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Martin Litton, RIP

By Erik Loomis

On December 7, 2014

The great environmentalist Martin Litton has died. A radical within what was traditionally a pretty conservative Sierra Club, Litton allied with David Brower to lead the fight to save Dinosaur.

Mt. Sing

By Erik Loomis

In General

On October 21, 2014

I've talked before about how national parks, and especially the classic nature parks of the American West, are whitened places, with indigenous histories erased and indigenous people evicted. That's certainly true, but those white people needed servants and sometimes they left a bit of evidence...

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Yosemite and the Legacy of White Colonialism Upon the Land

By Erik Loomis

On August 16, 2014

This is a fascinating essay on the terrible wrath white colonialism has created in the Yosemite Valley. There are a couple of facets. First, in the early 1850s, whites committed.

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The Anti-National Park Party

By Erik Loomis

On March 20, 2014

Things Republicans hate: National Parks.

Hacktackular

By Erik Loomis

In General

On November 26, 2013

Shocking that Tom Coburn's report on the national parks would be nothing but a justification for slashing budgets, eliminating the Antiquities Act (one of America's best laws and one that western legislators have hated ever since it was passed in 1906 and Theodore Roosevelt used...

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How a Government Shutdown is a Win for Republicans, Part 40000

By Erik Loomis

On October 15, 2013

One reason Republicans are in no hurry to reopen the government is that it in itself accomplishes major aims of the party. Among the many examples of this is throwing.

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