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Research paper thumbnail of PERSPECTIVES FROM THE FIELD: Wild Horses Are Cultural Resources

Environmental Practice, 2016

I am not a professional "environmental practitioner." I am a member of the public, a citizen of t... more I am not a professional "environmental practitioner." I am a member of the public, a citizen of the United States of America, whose land, environment, and way of life are affected profoundly by what environmental practitioners do. As practitioners, you are hired to manage land and land resources and to determine what impacts proposed changes in such management may have. My children, grandchildren, and I are among the people who suffer or benefit from the consequences. Sadly, "suffer" is usually the right word, and insufficient even to describe the effects of the injustice we experience. I am a lover of history and the lands and cultures that have impacted me throughout my life. My life began at the end of World War II in an Idaho ranching, logging, and farming community surrounded by rivers, lakes, and forests. The community is steeped in history, some long forgotten. For the first decade of my life, I was raised by my grandparents. Grandpa was born in 1889 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, in the year of the Great Flood, and subsequently moved to the Bronx, then left home at age ten and made his way to Idaho to work on the new Bonneville Dam. He settled in Long Valley, Idaho, where he purchased abandoned homesteads and established a lifelong career in ranching and farming in a predominantly Finnish community.

Research paper thumbnail of Wild Horses are Cultural Resources , Cambridge Press

Research paper thumbnail of PERSPECTIVES FROM THE FIELD: Wild Horses Are Cultural Resources

Environmental Practice, 2016

I am not a professional "environmental practitioner." I am a member of the public, a citizen of t... more I am not a professional "environmental practitioner." I am a member of the public, a citizen of the United States of America, whose land, environment, and way of life are affected profoundly by what environmental practitioners do. As practitioners, you are hired to manage land and land resources and to determine what impacts proposed changes in such management may have. My children, grandchildren, and I are among the people who suffer or benefit from the consequences. Sadly, "suffer" is usually the right word, and insufficient even to describe the effects of the injustice we experience. I am a lover of history and the lands and cultures that have impacted me throughout my life. My life began at the end of World War II in an Idaho ranching, logging, and farming community surrounded by rivers, lakes, and forests. The community is steeped in history, some long forgotten. For the first decade of my life, I was raised by my grandparents. Grandpa was born in 1889 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, in the year of the Great Flood, and subsequently moved to the Bronx, then left home at age ten and made his way to Idaho to work on the new Bonneville Dam. He settled in Long Valley, Idaho, where he purchased abandoned homesteads and established a lifelong career in ranching and farming in a predominantly Finnish community.

Research paper thumbnail of Wild Horses are Cultural Resources , Cambridge Press