The annual Convention and Trade Show (PLA) is the premier gathering for leaders in the public lands sector to network, gain essential tools, and explore products that enhance the visitor experience and support conservation, preservation, and enrichment efforts.
A new collection of essays, A Watershed Moment, reveals tensions between a culture of economic growth and personal freedom and the ecological, economic, and social constraints set by community values and the land itself. As Western communities come up against these limits, chapter authors highlight...
B192 JFSB (Education in Zion Auditorium)
Join local author, Dick Fluehe, for a discussion and signing of his memoir, The Last Miner. This event is $5 and open to the public. All proceeds go to the literary non-profit, Brain Food Books. Copies of the book will be available to purchase at the...
Pioneer homes in western North America are often assumed to have been log cabins. Not so in Salt Lake City! Near the Great Salt Lake, on level land to be used for farming, trees were in short supply. But mud, which a few pioneers knew...
The 90th Annual Meeting will be held April 23–April 27, 2025, in Denver, Colorado. The program is composed of general sessions, symposia, forums, lightning rounds, posters, and workshops. The SAA Annual Meeting is the largest gathering of archaeologists of the Americas, and it offers unparalleled...
The Mormon History Association invites you to Ogden, Utah for its sixtieth annual conference to be held June 5-8, 2025. Situated on the Ogden and Weber Rivers near where they join the Great Salt Lake, and nicknamed “Junction City” when it became the connecting point...
Steve Kemp will visit City Lights on Thursday, August 14th to share his new book, An Exaltation of Parks: John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s Crusade to Save America's Wonderlands. America’s national parks are facing unprecedented challenges. With visitation pressures mounting and the National Park Service struggling...
This August, Kemp will be releasing his new book, An Exaltation of Parks: John D. Rockefeller Jr.’s Crusade to Save America’s Wonderlands. The book focuses on how John D. Rockefeller Jr. collaborated with renowned NPS figures Horace Albright, Stephen Mather, and Arno Cammerer to establish...
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