Jessica’s Reviews > The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks > Status Update
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Canyonlands: 1964. Letters giving scope of threats of losing land to oil/fracking/fossil fuels. p268-Red Rocks Wild. Act (2009). p271- Tim DeChristopher: We must let ourselves be shattered by the hopelessness of the crisis...the opposite of hope is empowerment. p281-petrichor: loosely, the smell of rain caused by ozone (O3) p289- Grand Canyon not 5-6M yrs, perhaps 70M years. Frustrating essay; damage done; injustice.
— Jul 31, 2016 04:38PM
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Chavez Nat Mon: 2012. p351- Chavez and Dolores Huerta found Nat Farm Workers Assoc becomes United Farm Workers. p352- rock quarry then 1918 Stony Brook Retreat (TB san) closed 1967. p354- Nat Park Svc established 1916 by Woodrow Wilson. p359- EO Wilson says half the Earth must be wild for us to survive p360/61- list of words removed/add to Oxford Junior Dictionary ex- acorn/allergic, adder/alliteration, almond/analog
— Aug 01, 2016 07:18AM
Jessica
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Glacier: 1910. p342- 1850=150 glaciers, 2015=25. p344- 1948 Mescalero Red Hots - Nat Am fire crew, mostly WW2 vets, created Smokey the Bear legend. Nat Am's continue to make up good portion of firefighter/watch in Park syst. Heart-pounding essay about being in 2003 wildfires by way of adding some commentary on climate change.
— Aug 01, 2016 07:13AM
Jessica
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Alcatraz: 1972. Recreation Area not Park. 1850-purchased by Fuller for military use. Imprisoned Confederate soldiers. 1933-63-federal pen 1969-72-Indian occupied. Visit to Ai Weiwei exhibit and reflections on civil disobedience and imprisonment.
— Jul 31, 2016 04:46PM
Jessica
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p308: DeChrisopher 2015 speech: ...We know that those at the top of the power structure in this country are scared of this movement and you should be because we're coming for you, we're coming for your power and we're coming for your privilege and we are here to undermine the concentration of wealth that is oppressing the planet at the same time, oppressing people across the globe in so many interconnected ways....
— Jul 31, 2016 04:39PM
Jessica
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Gulf Islands: Seashore not Park. p227-To bear witness is not a passive act. p231-Margaret Curole (resident) compares ecological disaster of Deepwater Horizon to Longfellow's Evangeline. Essay about Deepwater and discrepancies between media and reality, government and big oil cover-ups (or at least lies) and impact on as well as resiliency of, wildlife. Threatened nature of Mississippi Delta region even prior.
— Jul 30, 2016 08:25AM
Jessica
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Gates of the Arctic: 1980. p210- "Wilderness is not my leisure or my recreation. It is my sanity." Meditative essay with no park info. Eerie descriptions of wildlife. I have only ever heard folks associate Alaska with anger and angst - so fascinating that here it is again.
— Jul 29, 2016 10:13AM
Jessica
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Big Bend: Chihauhan Desert, 1944. p179- Virga - rain that evaporates before hitting ground. p184- 180 degree ground temps p185- wind, water, light. Lawrence Fodor koan boxes p187- story of vermilion Mercury (elephant) & sulphur (snake) = cinnabar. Color - a Natural History of the Palette by Victoria Finlay. My favorite essay so far. Very little historical info. Story of tenuous restoration of minnow Gambusia gaigei.
— Jul 28, 2016 07:24AM
Jessica
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Effigy Mounds: 1949 by Truman using Antiquities Act. Also not in list - Monument not Park. p166: "...we form our future by being caretakers of our past." Does not fit with the rest of the essays - short, very little info. List of tribes signing protest re: 2009 audit revealing $3.4m spent on projects not held to environmental reviews or tribal consultations takes up an entire page of the essay's ten. Meditation.
— Jul 26, 2016 01:40PM
Jessica
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Gettysburg (cont): Not listed as Nat Park in back of book list - typo or technicality (ie: battlefield not park?) No dates of Congressional declarations, etc. Interesting info about park guide training and exams. Interesting view of re-enactors & guides and continued biases. The reversal of historical whitewashing (Robin Winks.)
— Jul 25, 2016 08:54PM
Jessica
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Gettysburg: (1863) p120: 4m/11m Southerners were slaves. p121: ranger's threat re: Kennedy refusal to attend anniversary and Obama's "I hope he thinks twice before going to Dallas." p133: Basil Biggs story - buried bodies p137: Cyclorama painted by Paul Philippoteaux in 1883. p146: friend: "There will never be another war that leaves the trees standing." ("witness trees") Staggering numbers of death and injury.
— Jul 25, 2016 08:48PM
