Walk the Farm 2009: Biodiversity at Stanford
and the West

Click here to learn about the annual Walk the Farm event. It focuses on Stanford's extensive lands as a microcosm in which to showcase and study issues that concern the entire western region of the United States.

Lincoln and the West: A two-day public discussion of Lincoln’s legacy in the American West is up on Stanford iTunes!

Click here to learn about the Lincoln administration and the effects of the Civil War and its aftermath on race, nationalism, economic development, and culture in the West.
Stanford Daily McPherson Article, Lincoln Conference Article

Retracing John Muir's Walk to Yosemite

In 1868, when John Muir first arrived in San Francisco, he almost immediately crossed the Bay to Oakland and began walking to Yosemite. On April 6, Alex McInturff -- a master's student in Earth Sciences at Stanford who has been doing research in conjunction with the Bill Lane Center for the American West and our collaborator iMapData -- is setting off to retrace Muir's path across California. Alex envisions his own walk as a way to examine the history, current state and future prospects of a wide range of conservation efforts across a telling transect of California, from urban areas, through suburbs and parks, across the large parks and ranches of the Coast Range, the irrigated industrial agriculture of the Central Valley, Kesterson Wildlife Refuge, up the Merced River, across the Don Pedro Reservoir and Lake McClure, through historical mining towns, and national forests to Yosemite National Park. You can follow his journey here.
Photo by L. A. Cicero, Stanford News Service
San Jose Mercury News Article by Paul Rogers
Los Angeles Times, May 9, 2009

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Tamara Venit Shelton Explores the History of San Francisco's Cemeteries

Read Tamara Venit Shelton's recent article about the landscape history of San Francisco's cemeteries, "Unmaking Historic Spaces," published in California History, the journal of the California Historical Society (Volume 85, No. 3). Tamara Venit Shelton, Ph.D, is currently a Scholar-in-Residence in the Reed College Department of History. She received her doctorate in History from Stanford in 2008 and was an affiliated graduate student at the Bill Lane Center for the American West.
Click here to download the article (large pdf file)
Click here to download Notes and Additional Information