Since its inception in 1935, the National Park System Advisory Board has served as a stalwart alliance of advisors for the current and future well being of our cherished national parks. DeCoteau serves on the Earthjustice board as well as the board of Columbia Land Trust. “Recommendations developed by the National Park System Advisory Board will help us strengthen our connection to the land and to our history,” added National Park Service Director Chuck Sams, a member of the Cayuse and Walla Walla tribes, and the first Native American to serve in this position since being sworn in on Dec. 16, 2021. “A dormant National Park System Advisory Board is not a good thing—either for the National Park Service or the national park system.”Columbia Insight contributing editor Jordan Rane is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in CNN.com, Outside, Men’s Journal and the Los Angeles Times. ##Columbia Insight, based in Hood River, Oregon, is nonprofit news site focused on environmental issues of the Columbia River Basin.

Source: CNN June 04, 2023 19:31 UTC