Posted on April 26, 2025, 2:55 pm, by QT Luong, under
Uncategorized.
https://www.terragalleria.com/blog/national-park-week-2025-what-were-really-up-against Each April, National Park Week is a time to celebrate the beauty, history, and spirit of America’s public lands. But in 2025, celebration must be paired with vigilance. The threats facing our national parks and public lands aren’t just abstract — they are deliberate, coordinated, and accelerating beneath the surface. From budget cuts and […]
Posted on April 25, 2024, 1:28 pm, by QT Luong, under
Books.
https://www.terragalleria.com/blog/the-best-national-parks-guidebooks National Park Week is upon us. My past write-ups acknowledged the role government and citizen organizations played in protecting our national parks. One of the takeaways from Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan’s The National Parks: America’s Best Idea was that their establishment also owes much to the tireless efforts of individual dedicated conservationists. However, […]
Posted on April 20, 2022, 11:19 am, by QT Luong, under
Locations.
Almost thirty years ago, what drew me personally to America’s national parks was its diversity of natural environments. On the occasion of this year’s National Parks Week, I reflect on what generally made America’s national parks so special and if contemporary changes, especially in visitation, have affected any of that. The first national parks To […]
While Earth Day has been internationally celebrated for more than forty years, National Parks Week is a relatively recent initiative from the US National Park Service. It has been argued that the National Parks are “America’s best idea” – recently in the Ken Burns film with that title. That idea first came to fruition with […]
