![]() Clicking around the site looks like you can look up sites, heritage sites by state, counties, land ownership, features. Paul Wade Well, let's talk about that website. And so now we have ended up with that website, which has probably over about 100 sites on there. And we got some Asian Pacific American interns to help us fan out into these sites to record more information about them and take pictures of them. And so we got a partner, the Chinese Historical Society of America, to help us with that. And so the first thing that we came up with was the the website. And so we wanted to somehow highlight these sites to attract underserved communities to visit some of these sites. And we found amazing number of sites, both from the Forest Service side and the BLM's Bureau of Land Management side and even private. Well, let's take a look at some of these sites. But as far as cultural heritage is concerned, in California, that tended to be the the focus. And so that we kind of focused our attention on that and we wanted to be as inclusive as possible to include other Asian Pacific Americans. And in primarily in California, that's where we kind of focused on. However, after the gold rush was over and there was a lot of discrimination against them and working in other area in the kind of like the more organized gold hard tunnel sites, they started branching out into different other areas. When I did some research, a lot of it tended to happen in California was within the late 1800s when the Chinese pioneers kind of came over and started looking for gold in the gold rush. And one of those ways that we thought of was to highlight some of the cultural heritage resources on National Forest Service land. So we were trying to find different ways of trying to engage the APA community. They're not really that enthused about it. And, you know, if you go hiking around the national forest lands, you don't see that many Asian Pacific Americans using recreation too much. And one of the goals of the Heritage Collaborative was to find different ways to engage underserved communities, specifically the Asian Pacific American community, what I call APAs. And when I was with the Forest Service while working for the Stanislaus National Forest, our Asian Pacific Employee Associations in the Forest Service decided to start up what is called the Asian Pacific American Heritage Collaborative. Fred, give the listeners some background on what I'll refer to as the epicenter of the topic today, the Asian Pacific American Heritage Collaborative.įred Wong I've been working for the federal government for about the last 20 years, a combination between Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management. Calling into the show today is Fred Wong, a district ranger who manages the Mammoth Ranger District on the Inyo National Forest. In this episode, we will focus on Chinese heritage sites on your California National Forests. Historical markers can be found throughout California's forests, parks, cities and towns that speak towards the Native American tribes that lived off the land, to the pioneers who surveyed and explored, and to those who shaped what California is today. We will tie in Episode 22 Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month with another amazing benefit carved into the national forest landscape: History. National Forests are loved by many people for many things beyond the recreational benefit they provide. I'm your host, Paul Wade, with the Regional Public Affairs and Communications Office. Paul Wade Welcome to Episode 27 of Forest Focus. 27: Chinese Heritage Sites on CNF Transcriptįorest Focus Ep 27: Chinese Heritage Sites on California National Forests
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