Utah Gateway Community Forum
The Utah Gateway Community Forum is a collection of individuals from communities that lie at the gateways to various recreational/tourist spaces that has met to discuss the challenges and opportuni
"Gateway Communities: Not all have tight connections with their national parks"
This article describes how some gateway communities are not closely tied to the surrounding parks and at time antagonistic toward federal lands, pushing back against the ways that tourism shape the
Aesthetics and the Cultivation of the Wilderness Experience
The 1976 Federal Lands Policy and Management Act, which officially incorporated unclaimed homestead act land into permanent federal ownership, included a charge to complete wilde
Flaring Hydrocarbons on Public Lands
This website describes policies and practices around flaring hydrocarbons on public lands. The regulations around flaring for oil companies were loosened in 2018.
Air Pollution in National Parks
This article summarizes a report produced by the National Parks Conservation Association that found that 85 percent of U.S.
Instagram Stewardship
This photo essay includes images related to the issue of how technology is used to share information about public lands and other recreational spaces and the debates going on around appropriate use
Public Lands Hates You
"Public Lands Hates You" started as an instagram account and has now expanded to a website highlighting (and publicly shaming) the ways that people do damage to public lands in the name of getting
Loved to Death - The ethics of geotagging
This image is of an online article that discusses the ethics of geotagging and how that shapes the impact of visitors on undeveloped, "wild" spaces.
Colorado Plateau Map (Grand Canyon Trust)
This map delineates variously classified areas of land on the Colorado Plateau.
TerraTruth is a phone app put out by the National Conservatio Lands Foundation that allows users to report conditions of public lands with geotags.