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An advertisement for the board game "On the Rocks: The Great Alaska Oil Spill," created by Richard Lynn, a Valdez bartender and participant in oil-spill cleanup efforts. The game pitted players against each other in a race-against-the-clock: whoever…

On June 22, 1990, the Bush administration voted to register the Northern spotted owl as a threatened subspecies on the Endangered Species list. At the time, only 3,000 to 5,000 pairs were extant in the Pacific Northwest. Though a bitter debate raged…

Farm workers in locations like California had long experienced poor living conditions, low wages, and bigoted treatment. In the late 1980s, the UFW took steps to boost the status of field workers in the U.S. - both through boycott campaigns (the…

MIdd campus article on environmental features of new science building constructed 1996-1999

Chavez and the United Farm Workers solicited the public to participate in a nationwide boycott of grape producers that did not display a union label. The UFW's broad-spectrum social justice agenda enabled it to enlist churches, community…

A graphic that depicts the location and cause of Yellowstone fires in 1988. The first fire began June 14, and a succession of conflagrations followed over the course of the summer. Overall, there were 9 human-caused blazes and 42 fires sparked by…

This source describes a series of panels where discussions were held about the environment

In the 1980s, explorers and astronauts delved deeper into the natural world's final frontiers - on land and in space. The photographs and documentation that accompanied these ambitious expeditions illustrate two opposing ideas. On the one hand,…

Although the Yellowstone fires devastated the park ecosystem, the drastic disturbance was actually beneficial in other ways. The fire thinned the canopy and thereby allowed light to reach shrubs, saplings, and grasses. Furthermore, ash enriched the…

A wildland firefighting crew uses a fire-retardant foam to extinguish flames on a YCC dormitory at Mammoth Hot Springs. Yellowstone's fire policy came under heavy criticism during the summer of 1988, as firefighters adopted a "let it burn" strategy…