It's probably save to say that politics is not something most of the 300 million people who visit the National Park System each year think of when they’re planning their vacations, but politics can definitely impact those vacations.
To drive that point home, we have two elder statesmen from the conservation/environmental movement who have endured and navigated politics through the more than 90 combined years they’ve worked in that world. Jonathan Jarvis was the 18th director of the National Park Service under President Obama, and his brother, Destry Jarvis, has had a long career working for the parks, first with the National Parks Conservation Association and later inside the Interior Department during the Clinton administration, and then as a consultant.
They’ve collaborated on a brand-new book -- National Parks Forever, Fifty Years of Fighting and a Case for Independence – and in the following webinar discuss it and their vision for how to minimize, at least, political influences on the National Park Service.
Support Essential Coverage of Essential Places
Comments
should be criminal interferene in the national park service. The amount of corruption, nepotism, theft and other downright nefarious behvior in the NPS would shock the public.
Heck- the NPS even covered up the sexual assaults with a few cherry cases and resignations. Meanwhile most of the predators are still employed.