Chris Zinda

  • The Meaning of Virginia Park

    Chris Zinda

    NOTE: Written in 2018, I offer this as a response to a TWN reader curious about “fortress preservation”. Once a year the NPS offers a guided tour so you, too, can experience a preserved piece of public lands [w/o citation & monetary fine].) In the 1990s I worked at Utah’s Capitol Reef National Park. I…

  • Preservation is Bold: The Environmental Movement Loses With Conservation Ethic

    Chris Zinda

    Semantic is implied meaningful difference among words, sometimes lost to those who use and identify with them. A word’s semantic contains deep difference and are often co-opted to benefit those who use them for an end, from a polemic like this to immorally conflating competing words and their moral. I argue that such is the…

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‎”At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour.”

Edward Abbey

“The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.”

Jim Fowler

“Our forests offer much more than just beautiful landscapes and wildlife. Each one has a different story to tell.”

Raveena Tandon

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