...Paul Spickard This introduces the special issue, “Reckoning with Our Past: California State Parks and the Dark Side of the Conservation Movement.” It identifies Madison Grant, conservationist and White supremacist, who was honored by California State Parks with a monument and grove bearing his name...

...Jim Wheeler James B. Wheeler, a career Park Ranger/Interpreter with the National Park Service and interpreter in North Coast Redwoods State Parks, wrote a letter before retiring in 2017 to his superiors and other Parks employees about Madison Grant’s history, positive and negative. He asked...

...Rena M. Heinrich American eugenicist Madison Grant (1865–1937) received two memorials from the State of California in 1931 and 1948 (posthumously) for his efforts, presumably, in the conservation of the California Redwoods as a co-founder of Save the Redwoods League (established in 1918...

...David G. McIntosh A memorial in Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park in Northern California continued to honor the name of Madison Grant (1865–1937) until 2021. De Forest Grant (Madison’s younger brother), John D. Rockefeller Jr., the New York Zoological Society, and others dedicated the monument...

...Victor Bjelajac Victor Bjelajac, District Superintendent of the North Coast Redwoods District State Parks, tells of his efforts not only on the Madison Grant monument but also on renaming another state park and bringing Yurok and other Indigenous tribes into the park system as keepers...