Place
National parks
A public landscape with rules, trails, and a visitor center trying to tell the truth quickly.
They meet hiking, conservation, and the ranger work of translation at the trailhead.
Loving a park can mean loving the idea that some ground is held in common.
On an Interest Map, the line we most often letter beside national parks reads “ground held in common.” It tends to meet hiking, conservation, and field biology.
Work that shares the table
A book that keeps it company
Wanderlust, Rebecca Solnit. Read it beside national parks: Walking as a way people have thought, traveled, and disagreed.