All Public Lands Matter
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At a time when public lands across the United States are so desperately threatened, I'd love to have a place where we celebrate ALL Public Lands across America, not just National Parks. Bureau of Land Management, National Forests, State Parks, you name it! You can add it! #allpubliclandsmatter! Use this hashtag too!
When I started out on a road trip, this summer, I was nervous as to what state I would find our public lands in as they come under threat. What I’ve written and posted and edited during here on Flickr certainly tells that story. What I found was heartening- people love their public lands. People will speak up for their public lands. People know that their public lands tell the full story of the United States, from the bloody and brutal, to the grand and the naturally magnificent. This is engrained into our culture. Public Lands are America in every sense of the word- they show what we are and they are part of what we believe what we should be. And what we should maintain and cherish and interpret. It’s going to take a lot more than this single administration of myopia to stop that. Keep fighting. Keep speaking up. These lands are your lands. These stories are your stories. And they always will be. If we keep fighting.
The landscape near Torrey and Capitol Reef National Park.
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#Allpubliclandsmatter! Zion is celebrating an anniversary today and it wouldn’t be if it didn’t achieve National Monument status before it ever became a National Park. 116 years of grandeur, no matter what the designation is!
- In Zion, you are on Pueblos and Southern Paiute land. Zion’s native name is Mukuntuweap. Zion is the name given to the canyon by American explorers.
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I know I've been posting a lot of the American West, lately, but yesterday, I made it out my my "home park" of The Everglades and thoroughly enjoyed myself, despite the heat, humidity, and bugs. I can't wait for winter, when visiting my backyard is a little easier. #allpubliclandsmatter
I know I've been posting a lot of the American West, lately, but yesterday, I made it out my my "home park" of The Everglades and thoroughly enjoyed myself, despite the heat, humidity, and bugs. I can't wait for winter, when visiting my backyard is a little easier. #allpubliclandsmatter
This morning scene from Richfield County Park is likely replicated in public parks all over our country and the world, isn't it? Where would we be without our public spaces, from the village square to a county park, like this one, to national parks?
I’m a week late for my Halloween post. This is my Halloween post because this rock formation in Vermillion Cliffs looks like a witch’s hat. Or the Sorting Hat. From Harry Potter. Which wasn’t written by anyone of note and certainly not by someone who has abhorrent views about minorities. Anyway. Happy Hanukkah and Merry Christmas. Let’s not skip Thanksgiving either.
It’s been a long week, y’all.
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️- across Utah and Arizona, you are in the Navajo Nation. In Navajo, sacred land is referred to as Diné Bikéyah. This land belongs to the people. Hopitutskwa, Pueblos, and Núu-agha-tʉvʉ-pʉ̱ (Ute) land is also found across these two states and at archeological sites and natural sites. It is an honor to see them. White Pocket is most closely associated with Southern Paiute land. #Allpubliclandsmatter
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Heading down to the Historic Entrance of Mammoth Cave, at Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky. The cave here is the longest cave system in the world. There are over 400 miles of surveyed passageways, and as many as 300 more miles that have not yet been explored. The cave has been designated a World Heritage Site, an International Biosphere Reserve and an International Dark Sky Park.
To actually enter the cave you need to be on one of the official tours provided by the National Park Service. We signed up to do three tours during our visit, and the first was the Discovery Tour. This is a short self-guided tour, which starts by taking a flight of stairs down into the Historic Entrance of the cave. This natural opening has been used by visitors dating back thousands of years (I was kinda disappointed that you didn't enter the cave by sliding down fireman poles, like Batman and Robin used to get into the Batcave in the old TV show).
Walking along the self-guided Discovery Tour, at Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky. The tour is short, only about a half-mile into the cave. There are a few artifacts on display, and some information signs to peruse. And if you have any questions, there's a few park rangers there to answer any questions (they said they love answering questions because that beats just sitting around in the dark).
Took a quick trip up to Atlanta a few weeks ago for Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter tour and of course we made time to fit in a National Park Service unit; an old favorite: Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site. This park packs a lot of emotion and history into a very small package. There are many reasons to love this place. Foremost, to stand on the sacred ground where one of America’s greatest voices for change grew up, preached, and is interred is an experience unto itself. To catch a glimpse of the iconic Ebenezer Baptist Church neon sign through Corretta Scott King’s rose garden is one of those moments that the National Park Service’s preservation excels at: the past is speaking to the present and you are there to witness it. The other reasons for strong emotions at MLK NHP? To see people out and about and enjoying themselves and the best parts of their country despite the worst parts of the country on display right now. To take stock of the events of the last few years or so and to see people paying respect to the values that define the goodness of america is moving and heartening especially as the National Park Service is facing challenges to sanitize history and only present “a positive view of America”. MLK NHS isn’t about “a positive view of America”. MLK’s impact is undoubtedly positive, but the struggle for civil rights and the very obvious fact that he was assassinated for those ideals contradicts any notion that history should be biased away from telling the whole truth. Distorting the facts would be a disservice to MLK’s legacy and what he would want for this country, and how we need to grow as a country. Resist lies and sanitation. Embrace the truth, as ugly as it might be. That’s how we learn.
Then it was finally time for our next tour at Mammoth Cave National Park, and we headed back to the Visitor Center. We were doing the Historic Tour, which also starts out at the Natural Entrance to the cave like our previous tour. But unlike that tour, which was self-guided, this tour was with a large group of about 100 people. It's hard enough to take pictures inside the cave, but it's even harder when you're stuck in a large group of people. And also, the guides were busy trying to herd people along the path, which made it hard to stop and take the camera out.
The features inside the cave all have names. The first large room that you enter on both the Historic and Discovery tour is named the Rotunda. Then you follow a paved path through a tunnel-like passageway that is called Broadway Avenue, because early visitors to the cave thought it resembled the urban canyon of Broadway in New York City. Next the tour entered a room called the Methodist Church, because in the 1830s there were church services held here (the preacher would take up lanterns to ensure people would stay for the entire service). The tour then stopped in an area called Booth's Amphitheater, which was named after a 19th century actor named Edwin Booth who visited the cave once and reportedly recited Hamlet in this room (Edwin Booth is known more now for his brother John Wilkes Booth, which must be awkward since Abraham Lincoln was born here in Kentucky). We stopped to listen to the tour guide talk for a few minutes, next to a few leaching vats that were used to mine saltpeter during the War of 1812.
Grand Canyon National Park, in Arizona, is home to much of the immense Grand Canyon, with its layered bands of red rock revealing millions of years of geological history. Viewpoints include Mather Point, Yavapai Observation Station and architect Mary Colter’s Lookout Studio and her Desert View Watchtower. Lipan Point, with wide views of the canyon and Colorado River, is a popular, especially at sunrise and sunset.
Just a simple composition showing the texture in the rock, with a few small boulders in a diagonalish array, with contrasting texture of thin clouds in the sky.
One of the stops along the Historic Tour at Mammoth Cave National Park. This is the "Giant's Coffin," a 1,000 ton boulder that is 48 feet long and 20 feet high. Many early visitors to the cave carved or wrote their names on the rock, and it is covered with graffiti from the 1800s. The tour guides pointed out that any markings made before the cave was protected as a National Park is considered historic graffiti, anything carved afterwards is considered a felony.
Today the historic Grand Canyon Lodge on the North Rim was consumed by a wildfire. Wildfire had burned between 50 and 80 structures on the North Rim, according to park officials.
The lodge, which opened in 1937, was about five-and-a-half hours north of metro Phoenix and was the only hotel located inside the national park at the North Rim. There are few other hotels near the main visitor hub of the North Rim, and they are at least a dozen miles farther from the canyon's edge.
The lodge building was made of a limestone facade that was sourced nearby, and massive ponderosa pine trees were turned into support beams to hold up a sloped roof capable of supporting heavy loads of snow, according to the National Park Service. The property consisted of a main lodge building with 23 deluxe cabins and over 90 regular cabins.
The original north rim Grand Canyon Lodge was built in the late 1920s and burned down in a fire in 1932. It was reconstructed in 1937. Few photos from past visit.
“Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.” – Henri Cartier-Bresson