11 January 2017
Chicano Park’s Landmark Designation Preserves Latino Social History
Today, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell designated San Diego’s Chicano Park, a community hub widely recognized as playing a key role in civil rights efforts by local Latinos, as a National Historic Landmark. “The…
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01 August 2016
InsideNPS: Latino Conservation Week at the Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation
On Friday July 22nd, the Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation in Boston, Massachusetts visited the Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections Department to learn about the history of Villa Victoria and Puerto Rican culture in…
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16 July 2016
Community Outreach Meets Program Development at John Heinz Refuge
The Service is joining Hispanic Access Foundation in celebrating Latino Conservation Week from July 16-24 as a demonstration of Latino commitment to conservation and the permanent protection of our land, water, and air. Events across…
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16 July 2016
Nia Edwards Ties Baltimore Latinos to Resources at Masonville Cove
In the early 2000s, there was a need to clean up the Baltimore Harbor and dredge material (wood, mud, silt, sand, shell, and debris) from the seafloor. From that project and a robust coalition of…
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25 February 2016
Tangy Wiseman - USFS Wilderness and Wild Scenic Rivers Programs
Tangy started her career in public land conservation taking the opportunity to work in a restaurant in Yellowstone National Park to explore the park and shadow NPS staff. The next summer, Tangy was accepted into…
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25 February 2016
Chantelle Ruidant-Hansen - San Antonio Missions National Historical Park
As an LHIP Outreach Intern in 2017, Chantelle facilitated Urban Ranger programs with youth in San Antonio. These programs explored the basic mission history and the natural resources around the city in connection with the…
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