Understand the history of these kinds of protected spaces but also to make the process of preservation more visible, to make it easier to understand not only the history of parks and how they have changed over time, but more importantly, why they have changed over time. Most of us when we think about preservation, we think about something staying the same, and yet preservation actually changes things. That is the focus we will aim at today. There we go. In the context of open space lands in the u. S. , there is a presumption that a Public Ownership is the landscape. We see the miniseries by ken burns on National Parks, it was called americas best idea. That natural spaces that have trails and hiking and sightseeing a representative of pristine nature that had some boundaries put around it and has been kept the same, like a vase in a use them, static and never changing. Set aside unchanging for generations. That literally is part of the founding legislation for the National Parks servic
We have a pretty big backup and you can see on the map the backup is growing and it could be up to the downtown as we take a look. I will say that the detour is still there on 880 and people are being taken off the freeway and getting on at 29th. There is a lot of traffic in the morning and people dont realize how much until you get caught in this backup. To avoid this use eastbound 580 instead of southbound 880. Westbound 580 is slow at the Altamont Pass into livermore, slow on tool five as well but Getting Better from livermore into dublin. 880 northbound looks okay up to the toll plaza and the bay bridge is moderate. It is 5 01 am. A warning you need to know about if you are heading to the beach, Christien Kafton is at the ocean beach in San Francisco. A lot of people maybe going there because it will get really hot this week and good morning. Reporter good morning. I was talking with a fisherman heading out talking about theaconditions at the ocean beach. He says that in his experi
Thats facing all of the Museum Managers and people that are responsible for generating, producing, and collecting objects that would likely go into a museum sitting such as this is how much do we need to keep . How many things do we need to have to tell the american story and its the great conundrum of our protection. There are those who believe that maybe the time has come to start reducing the amounts of things we collect and be more judicious in how we collect them and what we collect. Is it inappropriate to use representative samples, say at an archaeological site, where things are left at the Vietnam Veterans memorial. Do we need to keep everything . And there are those in the professional field that think we need to keep everything and theres others who think sampling is the more judicious and longterm strategy. Because there is a point of diminishing return. It costs money. There is an inherent cost to storing all of these objects. In many cases the costs can be prohibitive and
Being a cowboy. He was working for different cattle rampnches and he absoluty loved it. He knew it was his way of life. There was something invented in the 1870s that revolutionized cattle ranching in the western United States. That was barbed wire. What you used to have is the open cattle ranches. You would actually have somebody who could get cattle, have them wandering all over the place, and eventually take them to market. With barbed wire, all the people who actually had land claims would put fences around their land. That that almost was the end of the open cattle range. But theres a few people who really, really loved cattle ranching and who didnt want to let them stop them and they didnt have the huge ranches that like we see in southern texas. What they did is they came out to padre island. What made it ideal for cattle ranches, even if you didnt have the barbed wire, was that you didnt need a fence for most of it. You had water on most sides of the island. Patrick dunn came o
Douglas brinkley. Booktv live from tucson. Good morning. Welcome to the tucson festival of books, the worlds greatest book festival. [applause] my name is jim cook, executive director of the National Parks association and sponsor of this session. Western National Parks association is the Nonprofit Organization partner of the National Park service. Our purpose is to educate visitors about the history, nature, cultural and recreational opportunities in 67 National Parks in 12 western states. So as you are here with the Tucson National festival of books and the main library western National Parks association is very proud to present our special guest today , what a treat to have him back in tucson. With that, i introduce our moderator bill. Thank you. Yes, i am bill bill buckmaster i host a daily radio talkshow on kb oi a. M. 1030 the voice. Also you can listen to the program live anywhere in the world. By going to buckmaster show. Com. I hope you will check it out. Im excited to be here