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Alfred Runte writes for a national following on the meaning and management of protected landscapes. Born and raised in Binghamton, New York, in the upper Susquehanna River Valley, he became the youngest board member of the Susquehanna Conservation Council. While fighting with others to preserve the river, he earned his B.A. from Harpur College of the State University of New York at Binghamton (now Binghamton University). His Ph.D. is from the University of California at Santa Barbara, where he helped build the Environmental Studies Program. A childhood camping trip from coast to coast (the family covered 10,000 miles) inspired Al’s resolve to write about the national parks. Now in its fourth edition, his first book, National Parks: The Ame Alfred Runte writes for a national following on the meaning and management of protected landscapes. Born and raised in Binghamton, New York, in the upper Susquehanna River Valley, he became the youngest board member of the Susquehanna Conservation Council. While fighting with others to preserve the river, he earned his B.A. from Harpur College of the State University of New York at Binghamton (now Binghamton University). His Ph.D. is from the University of California at Santa Barbara, where he helped build the Environmental Studies Program. A childhood camping trip from coast to coast (the family covered 10,000 miles) inspired Al’s resolve to write about the national parks. Now in its fourth edition, his first book, National Parks: The American Experience, continues to guide conservationists around the world in the establishment and management of protected lands.
Al’s hands-on research further includes four years as a seasonal ranger in Yosemite National Park. Visitor enthusiasm for his talks inspired two books, Trains of Discovery: Western Railroads and the National Parks, and Yosemite: The Embattled Wilderness. In 1991, Al was centennial historian for the U.S. Forest Service, celebrating the nation’s first forest reserves (1891 1991), for which he produced the exhibit catalogue, Public Lands, Public Heritage: The National Forest Idea.
In 2003, Al helped launch Natureza & Conservação, a new international journal of ecology published in Brazil. He was then invited to deliver the keynote address at the Fourth Brazilian Congress on Parks and Protected Areas, held in 2004 in Curitiba. “It was humbling,” Al notes. “Eighteen hundred people listened expectantly to my recommendations for the future of parks in their country. What could I tell them but to follow their hearts and learn from our mistakes?”
In recent years, Al has busied himself with saving railroads as effective allies of open space, a contribution he details in Allies of the Earth: Railroads and the Soul of Preservation. An expanded fifth edition of Trains of Discovery, now including the national parks of the East, also appeared in 2011 with a new subtitle, Railroads and the Legacy of Our National Parks.
Al’s hobby, of sorts, is writing op-eds for national newspapers. He has also been a guest on Nightline, The Today Show, Forty-Eight Hours, the History Channel, and Travel Channel, and in numerous PBS documentaries. He works out of his basement office in Seattle, supervised by George and Gracie, the family cats. His wife Christine is registrar at Seattle’s Museum of Flight, renowned for its collections of fighter and commercial aircraft.
In April 2011, Al was elected to membership in the College of Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame at Illinois State University (his master’s degree institution) “in recognition of exemplary achievement” as a teacher and public scholar.
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	National Parks: The American Experience 3.79 avg rating — 245 ratings — published 1979 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Trains of Discovery: Railroads and the Legacy of Our National Parks 4.11 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2011 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Yosemite: The Embattled Wilderness 3.93 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1990 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Allies of the Earth: Railroads And the Soul of Preservation 3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2006	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Trains of Discovery: Western Railroads and the National Parks 3.55 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1993 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Burlington Northern and the dedication of Mount St. Helens: New legacy of a proud tradition 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Yosemite: A Journal for the Members of the Yosemite Association: Volume 52, Number 4 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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