By William C. Tweed
ISBN-10: 0520947304
ISBN-13: 9780520947306
During this provocative strolling meditation, author and previous park ranger William Tweed takes us to California’s extraordinary excessive Sierra to find a brand new imaginative and prescient for our nationwide parks as they procedure their one centesimal anniversary. Tweed, who labored one of the Sierra Nevada’s monstrous peaks and large timber for greater than thirty years, has now hiked greater than 2 hundred miles alongside California’s John Muir path in a private look for solutions: How will we tackle the weather switch we're seeing even now—in melting glaciers in Glacier nationwide Park, altering wet seasons on Mt Rainer, and extra fireplace within the West’s iconic parks. should still we interfere the place we will to maintain biodiversity? may still the parks in simple terms turn into environment museums that convey well-known landscapes and species? Asking how we will be able to make those tremendous parks appropriate for the subsequent iteration, Tweed, via his trip, eventually exhibits why we needs to just do that.
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By midday, I have made my way over Island Pass and begun my descent into the San Joaquin River watershed. I lunch on a rocky knob and take in the spectacular view. Before me stretches one of the most storied landscapes in the entire range. Every Sierra hiker has heard of Thousand Island Lake 26 / South from Yosemite and its neighbor Garnet Lake, an equally scenic body of water located two miles to the south. Situated on the northeast slopes of the jagged peaks of the Ritter Range, this landscape has been appreciated and fought over for more than a century.
Wildfire, I told them, is an essential part of the forest ecosystems of the Sierra Nevada. Fires occurred regularly before we came, and we made a profound error early in the twentieth century when the Forest Service and Park Service initiated an aggressive program of fire suppression. Without the regular, cleansing effects of fire, our Sierra forests become choked with excess fuel. If we are not careful, fires consuming this unnatural accumulated fuel will do grievous harm to our forests. To protect them, we must undertake a program of fuel reduction, a goal that can be accomplished in several ways but is best done, at least in wilderness and national park settings, through a program of carefully managed, low-intensity fire.
Today, I’m also the old guy with the big pack. I switch to my lowest gear and begin the climb. Eventually, I begin to pass some of my companions from the morning ferry. I find them sprawled on rocks and logs. Some hikers overtake me and pass on ahead; but I overtake others, and that feels good. For years I’ve fought unsuccessfully the urge to compete on the trail. Perhaps the trait is so deeply wired into male brains that it can never completely be extinguished. I realize that, without really trying to, I’ve kept track of who is ahead of me and whom I’ve passed.
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