Joining us this week on The Lookfar Podcast: Voices from the Wild is Shelton Johnson, a park ranger with the U.S. National Park Service, stationed in Yosemite National Park. Shelton was featured on Ken Burns’ documentary The National Parks: America’s Best Idea in 2009 and is renowned for his eloquence in telling the story of the Buffalo Soldiers and his tireless efforts to champion diversity and inclusion in our parks. Shelton talks with Lookfar CEO Scott Stone about growing up both in Detroit and, thanks to his father’s military service, in Germany and the United Kingdom, and how this formed his remarkable connection to the natural world, particularly after a visit to Berchtesgaden in the German Alps. Shelton shares his insights on the role of parks and public lands in America, drawing on his African American and Native American heritage and his experiences as an African American park ranger working in U.S. national parks.

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