Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
Recreation, Parks and Tourism Administration Commons™
Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Discipline
-
- Environmental Policy (2)
- Geography (2)
- Nature and Society Relations (2)
- Sociology (2)
- Animal Diseases (1)
-
- Animal Sciences (1)
- Animals (1)
- Arts and Humanities (1)
- Biostatistics (1)
- Canadian History (1)
- Civic and Community Engagement (1)
- Civil Law (1)
- Community Health (1)
- Community-Based Learning (1)
- Community-Based Research (1)
- Creative Writing (1)
- Demography, Population, and Ecology (1)
- Diseases (1)
- Disorders of Environmental Origin (1)
- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (1)
- Economic Policy (1)
- Economics (1)
- Education Policy (1)
- Emergency and Disaster Management (1)
- Energy Policy (1)
- English Language and Literature (1)
- Ethics and Political Philosophy (1)
- Keyword
-
- Acadia National Park (1)
- Colonization (1)
- Dakota Access Pipeline (1)
- Data (1)
- Data-driven (1)
-
- Department of health (1)
- Grand Canyon National Park (1)
- Interactive map (1)
- Native American (1)
- New york city (1)
- Oil (1)
- Post-colonial society (1)
- Pride (1)
- Rats (1)
- Search and rescue (1)
- Sovereignty (1)
- U.S. Government (1)
- U.S. National Park (1)
- Yellowstone National Park (1)
- Zion National Park (1)
Articles 1 - 3 of 3
Full-Text Articles in Recreation, Parks and Tourism Administration
Search And Rescue Missions On The Rise In U.S. National Parks, Sahalie Donaldson
Search And Rescue Missions On The Rise In U.S. National Parks, Sahalie Donaldson
Capstones
Across the country the number of search and rescue missions in national parks has been creeping up since 2018. While the number of missions being undertaken are up overall, some parks in particular have seen a dramatic spike in the number of people requiring rescue services, straining a patchwork, often volunteer-based search-and-rescue system. Some parks like Maine’s Acadia National Park, Zion National Park in Utah and the Grand Canyon National Park even experienced their busiest years to date in regards to the number of search and rescue calls they received.
Both former and current park rangers who go on search …
Of Rats And Men, Thomas S. Walsh
Of Rats And Men, Thomas S. Walsh
Capstones
This capstone is a data-driven investigation into New York City's rat problem. By using publicly available government data to map rat activity in NYC, I identified several socio-economic variables that correlate with rat populations at the community district, borough, and city-scale. I used these findings (mainly that rat problems are linked to lower incomes) as the basis of an investigation, which includes interviews with residents, experts, and city officials. Prof. Bobby Corrigan, urban rodentologist and formerly with the NYC Department of Health criticizes the city's efforts for the first time on the record.
https://thomasseiyawalsh.wixsite.com/ratstone
Different Names For Bullying, Marco Poggio
Different Names For Bullying, Marco Poggio
Capstones
“There's all different forms of bullying,” says Steven Gray, a Lakota rancher and former law enforcement officer living in South Dakota. In this look into Gray’s life, we learn about two instances of bullying: the psychological and physical harassment that pushed his son, Tanner Thomas Gray, to commit suicide at age 12; And the controversial construction of an oil pipeline in an ancient tribal land that belongs to the Lakota people by rights of a treaty signed in 1851, which Gray sees as an institutional abuse infringing on the sovereignty of his people. Gray is involved in the movement that …