scholarly journals The Deep Freeze Redux: Cold Storage Packaging of Ektachrome Color Film

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. e25640
Author(s):  
Lisa Palmer
Keyword(s):  
Cold Storage ◽  
National Park ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Marine Fishes ◽  
Color Film ◽  
Acclimation Period ◽  
The Us ◽  
Park Service ◽  
Materials Used ◽  
National Gallery Of Art

At the 2017 SPNHC meetings in Denver, a five-minute Storage Techniques for Art, Science and History (STASH) talk was presented on the cold storage of film-based media. Herein, a more in-depth presentation of the Smithsonian's archival project with a status update is provided. In February 2016 world-renowned ichthyologist John E. Randall (Jack) donated his 10,559 film-based slide collection of fishes to the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History (NMNH). Beginning in the 1970’s, Jack used predominately 120mm Ektachrome film to photograph marine fishes. The first-generation slides were stored in cool storage, approximately 40F/4.5C, for much of their lives, thus preserving film color quite well as well as extending the life expectancy of film. Although digital surrogates of the slides have been created, the Division of Fishes intends to ensure the stabilization of the original color film by placing the slides in cold (-4F/-20C) storage. Color dyes used in Ektachrome slide film are fairly fugitive, and a known strategy to slow the rate of fading is to store slides in the coldest storage possible. NMNH Division of Fishes rehoused slides based on methods developed by the US National Park Service and the US National Gallery of Art. Prior to placing into cold storage, the slides were rehoused using archival supplies. The packaging methods we used are to prevent or reduce inherent deterioration as well as to help prevent any condensation buildup during the acclimation period that can occur when moving between quite differing temperature environments. In this discussion, I will evaluate the processes and materials used as well as to reflect on post-mortem takeaways.

From Competition to Cooperation: A History of Canada–US National Park Relations

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terence Young ◽  
Alan MacEachern ◽  
Lary Dilsaver
Keyword(s):  
National Parks ◽  
National Park ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Us ◽  
Park Service ◽  
Settler Societies ◽  
History Of ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Flow Of Information ◽  
The Relationship

This essay explores the evolving international relationship of the two national park agencies that in 1968 began to offer joint training classes for protected-area managers from around the world. Within the British settler societies that dominated nineteenth century park-making, the United States’ National Park Service (NPS) and Canada’s National Parks Branch were the most closely linked and most frequently cooperative. Contrary to campfire myths and nationalist narratives, however, the relationship was not a one-way flow of information and motivation from the US to Canada. Indeed, the latter boasted a park bureaucracy before the NPS was established. The relationship of the two nations’ park leaders in the half century leading up to 1968 demonstrates the complexity of defining the influences on park management and its diffusion from one country to another.

The Los Angeles Urban Rangers: actualizing geographic thought

2012 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 401-409 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Bauch ◽  
Emily Eliza Scott
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
National Park ◽  
National Park Service ◽  
Art World ◽  
Geographic Thought ◽  
New Methods ◽  
The Us ◽  
Park Service ◽  
Urban Places

The Los Angeles Urban Rangers (LAUR) is one of a growing number of collectives associated with the art world that offer new methods for expressing and performing insights rooted in geographical thought. Borrowing the US National Park Service ranger ‘persona,’ the LAUR demonstrate a number of ways to untangle nature-society issues in cities. The ranger persona is successful in part because of its ability to spatially relocate the affect associated with (supposed) pristine nature to urban places. The article contains a toolkit of programs that the LAUR have employed to re-activate urban space.

scholarly journals Relief Presentation on US National Park Service Maps

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Tom Patterson
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
National Park Service ◽  
Landscape Heterogeneity ◽  
Ongoing Effort ◽  
The Us ◽  
Park Service ◽  
Harpers Ferry ◽  
The Media ◽  
Diverse Audience ◽  
Mode Of Production

This paper examines the evolution of relief presentations on maps developed by Harpers Ferry Center, the media service center of the US National Park Service (NPS). Harpers Ferry Center produces the maps used by park visitors. I will discuss five park maps, each with a distinctive relief style and mode of production. They appear in rough chronological order of their development. Recent relief presentations are generally more detailed, colorful, and realistic than those from earlier years. Changing technology is largely responsible for the different relief styles found on park maps. Some relief treatments today were not possible, or imaginable, in 1977 when the NPS established the brochure program in its modern phase. Landscape heterogeneity is another factor behind the development of different relief styles. With over 400 park sites ranging from the glacial mountains of Alaska to the rolling piedmont of Virginia, a one-style-fits-all approach cannot adequately depict all landscapes. NPS maps serve some 300 million park visitors each year. Our ongoing effort to make understandable maps for this diverse audience has further spurred experiments in relief presentation.

scholarly journals Fitting the US National Park Service for Change

BioScience ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 69 (8) ◽  
pp. 651-657
Author(s):  
Mark W Schwartz ◽  
Kent H Redford ◽  
Elaine F Leslie
Keyword(s):  
Invasive Species ◽  
National Park ◽  
National Park Service ◽  
Active Management ◽  
Ecosystem Change ◽  
Support Tools ◽  
The Us ◽  
Management Capacity ◽  
Park Service ◽  
Management Approaches

Abstract The US National Park Service (NPS), which manages over 85 million acres and over 400 units, contends with myriad external drivers of ecosystem change that threaten parks. Stressors such as invasive species, habitat fragmentation, warming climates and rising sea level, raise the potential that parks will not attain or sustain their congressionally designated missions. Using invasive animals as a focal example of such changes, we suggest the NPS consider increasing active management of resources, participating in cooperative ecoregional management, increasing the use of public participation, and using formal decision support tools. We illustrate how these management approaches are currently underused. Acknowledging that invasive species are but one of a suite of problems that are threatening to overwhelm park management capacity we believe that the approaches we outline generalize to myriad problems facing the NPS.

scholarly journals Exposure and potential effects of pesticides and pharmaceuticals in protected streams of the US National park Service southeast region

2020 ◽  
Vol 704 ◽  
pp. 135431 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul M. Bradley ◽  
Kristin M. Romanok ◽  
Jeffrey R. Duncan ◽  
William A. Battaglin ◽  
Jimmy M. Clark ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
National Park Service ◽  
Southeast Region ◽  
The Us ◽  
Park Service

Monument to Defeat: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in American Culture and Society

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
LAWRENCE A. TRITLE
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Vietnam Veterans ◽  
National Park ◽  
National Park Service ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
Vietnam Veterans Memorial ◽  
The Us ◽  
Park Service

Monument or memorial? Defeat or withdrawal? The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington DC pays tribute to more than 58,000 Americans who died fighting an unpopular war. Yet today the ‘Wall’, as it is known to most Americans, is the most visited site managed by the US National Park Service. Weekend visitors will happen upon an almost festive place as thousands of people pass by looking at the names – what do they think, imagine? This chapter discusses not only the story and controversy behind the building of the ‘Wall’, but also how it reflects the collective memory of a society and its values, and how these are constructed.

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