Tag: National Parks
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Studying Yellowstone’s Burn Scars to Reveal its Future
Nathan Kiel investigates the potential for post-fire forest recovery across the greater Yellowstone ecosystem in a warming world.
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Wilderness Has a Purity Problem
in EssaysWhat does it mean for a landscape to be pristine? Ande Peersen reflects on her love of the outdoors and her work for the U.S. Forest Service to interrogate the nature–culture divide.
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Badwater (a Kinship Series Essay)
in EssaysDaegan Miller recounts his close encounter with a buffalo herd and the fraught political history of the Badlands in this essay with audio narration excerpted from Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations, a five-volume book series.
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Learning to Love Human Traces in Wild Places
in ExhibitsA photographer explores an aesthetic that finds beauty in the physical alterations people make to natural landscapes, from Yellowstone to a state park in Ohio.
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A Nation’s Shadow at Bears Ears National Monument
in ExhibitsIn a series of photographs, a scholar and wilderness guide meditates on wild places and the politics of resource extraction in southern Utah.
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The Land Doesn’t Hate: A Conversation with Lauret Savoy
in PodcastsA geologist turned award-winning writer reflects on the marks racism has left on the American landscape.
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Edgy Stuff: National Parks Centennial Edition
in ChecklistsThe Edge Effects Editorial Board’s September recommendations feature content on the National Parks from around the web and beyond for the parks’ Centennial.
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Wisconsin’s John Muir: An Interview with Michael Edmonds
in PodcastsA traveling exhibit celebrates the life of John Muir and the centennial of the National Parks Service.
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A Park Service for Both Bison and Bombs
in EssaysThe centennial of the National Park Service offers a chance to reassess how we view natural and cultural landscapes.
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Edgy Stuff: June 2016 Recommendations
in ChecklistsAnnouncing new editors and June 2016 recommendations from the Edge Effects editorial board.