The past two weeks have been busy at SEKI; from contacting community service groups to planning my two Latino Conservation Week events this weekend. The first event tomorrow will consist of a volunteer project measuring the diameter of some of the sequoias. Since these measurements...
Every time I drive up from the visitor center to the Giant Forest, I become amazed at the sequoias as if it were the first time. The trees have the ability to make one feel so small and insignificant, making one realize that life IS...
"The national park is the best idea America ever had."- James Bryce The past two weeks have consisted of experiences I will remember for quite a long time. On Monday June 13th, I was given the opportunity to accompany NPS representatives that...
“There are two things that interest me: the relation of people to each other and the relation of people to land.” -Aldo Leopold My assignment for this past week has been to read social science literature on causes of park (non)use by minorities in...
“The Big Tree is nature’s forest masterpiece, and so far as I know, the greatest of living things. It belongs to an ancient stock, as its remains in old rocks show, and has a strange air of other days about it, a thoroughbred look inherited...