Focal Spot, Fall/Winter 1987

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Annual Report of Research and Creative Productions by Faculty and Staff, January to December, 2020

Annual Report of Research and Creative Productions by Faculty and Staff, January to December, 2020

Annual Report of Undergraduate Research Fellows, August 2011 to May 2012

Annual Report of Undergraduate Research Fellows from August 2011 to May 2012

Wilderness handrails: The evolution of search and rescue in Yosemite National Park

The evolution of search and rescue in Yosemite after World War II highlighted the ways in which park users and administrators negotiated the contentious discourses of technology, tourism, and wilderness in the modern national parks movement. The establishment of a technologically sophisticated search and rescue force provided free by the federal government blurred the lines between preservation and use in national park policy by allowing administrators to resist development and support wilderness while still providing a safe environment for recreation. The co-evolution of rock climbing and rescue also illuminated the resulting tensions between individual freedom, social responsibility, and class in environmental culture. Drawing from incident reports, administrative correspondence, and climbing literature, this thesis demonstrates that the professionalization of search and rescue enabled the Park Service to accommodate visitors seeking to both preserve nature and consume it through rock climbing and other wilderness activities in the nation\u27s premier national park

Appalachia Winter/Spring 2013: Complete Issue

Winter/Spring 2013 - Volume LXIV, Number 1 - issue #235. Looking for Thoreau: His pull remains strong 150 years later

Appalachia Winter/Spring 2014: Complete Issue

Winter/Spring 2014 - Volume LXV, Number 1 - issue #237. At Large: Four Stories of Escape to Wilder Land

Writing the ascent : narrative and mountaineering accounts / by Justin Allec.

Mountaineering is an activity traditionally practiced in remote areas of the world by a select few participants. Upon returning from an expedition, some mountaineers retrospectively publish their account as a testament of the experience. This is a common practice in the mountaineering subculture, and encouraged by the fact that an account can also act as a guide to the mountain for later expeditions. This thesis argues that this practice becomes troubling because even as later expeditions attempt to distinguish their ascents from their predecessors, a similar framework of ideals is reiterated. The expedition's actions can be justified using frameworks based on domination of the environment and indigenous cultures. The repetition of these ideals is encouraged by the teleological narrative adopted by the authors to describe the episodic order of the expedition as well as the goal of the summit. However, this common narrative, as well as the subject matter, also allows accounts to be read in dialogue with one another