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Bob Janiskee
BiographyWhile serving 33 years on the faculty of the University of South Carolina, I taught a national parks course, helped get Congaree National Park established, and worked as a V.I.P in that park. Now retired as Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Geography, I want to continue visiting parks, thinking about parks, and writing about parks until I assume room temperature. To help keep me focused and busy I teach “America’s National Parks” and several other courses through the University’s Independent Learning division.
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- 9/07/2008 11:34 am - Hawaii’s National Parks Are Attracting Fewer Visitors : Interesting observations about Native Hawaiians, Ted. But while it's true that many Native Hawaiians dislike "haoles" (whites) and have profoundly anti-development views, that's not been a significant problem in their direct relations with tourists. Take the Big Island, for example. Native Hawaiians who don't like haoles don't interact all that ...
- 9/07/2008 3:40 am - Hawaii’s National Parks Are Attracting Fewer Visitors : Hawaii vacation costs haven't gotten completely out of hand. Far from it. To help stem the decline in tourism, the first in seven years, the Hawaiian hospitality industry is offering dramatically cheaper lodging. Mainlanders planning a fall or winter trip to Hawaii can now score some of the best in-season ...
- 9/07/2008 3:15 am - It’s Good to be the President When You Visit Gettysburg National Military Park : Get over it? No way! Immediately after the very first VIP in human history got special treatment (say, the clan leader who got the best cut of meat from a fresh kill) there emerged another new class of human called the Envious Working Stiff. I'm an EWS myself, and that's ...
- 9/06/2008 11:22 am - It’s Good to be the President When You Visit Gettysburg National Military Park : Please note that I've added the following comment at the beginning of the referenced article: **Warning: If you do not understand the concept of satire, do not read this article!!**
- 9/05/2008 2:41 am - Hanna Forcing Evacuations, Closures at Cape Hatteras, Cape Lookout National Seashores : While you follow the progress of the relatively wimpy Hannah, you might want to keep your eye on the hurricane that's following it in the Atlantic. Here's what my unimpeachable source said about Hurricane Ike yesterday morning (September 4): [quote]Direct from the Scare the Pants off and Cry like Baby ...
- 9/01/2008 8:51 am - Plague Kills Many Prairie Dogs and Black-Footed Ferrets in Grasslands Near Badlands National Park : Lone Hiker, I'm a bit puzzled by that reference to "your dissertation." What makes you think that the (anonymous) person who made that statement has a doctorate or is working on one?
- 9/01/2008 5:14 am - Plague Kills Many Prairie Dogs and Black-Footed Ferrets in Grasslands Near Badlands National Park : Calling plague a bad thing, or laying blame on humans for causing/worsening it, takes us into very tricky ground. Sylvatic plague -- called "sylvatic" because it infects wild animals, not domesticated ones -- is endemic in the prairies. Because this virulently infectious and relentlessly lethal disease is a natural phenomenon, ...
- 8/30/2008 1:26 pm - Paying To Understand U.S. History in the National Park System : Gettysburg's new museum and visitor center may be a lot of things, but "roadside tourist trap" is certainly not one of them.
- 8/30/2008 4:09 am - Presidential Politics and the National Parks : Christy, I'm afraid that you're barking up the wrong tree here. There is no evidence that proximity to national parks breeds park advocacy. On the other hand, we have tons of evidence that the opposite may be true -- mostly because having parks in the vicinity crimps many kinds of ...
- 8/28/2008 6:32 am - Flooding Nurtures Life in Congaree National Park : Kirby, while returning from northern Michigan last Saturday I cruised down M127 and hung a left on I-96 at Lansing to head over to US 23 South (where I participated in a 70-minute traffic delay just north of Ann Arbor). By my reckoning, I must have passed within a few ...
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