This episode of Big Blend Radio's WOMEN MAKING HISTORY podcast features the archived interview with Dana Dierkes, former Public Affairs Specialist for Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks, who talks about photographer and conservationist Susan Priscilla Thew Parks.
Susan Priscilla Parks (née Thew, 5 April 1878 – 29 January 1968) Susan was an American explorer, photographer, plant collector and advocate for the expansion of the Sequoia National Park in the southern Sierra Nevada. Read more about this "Unsung Heroine of Sequoia National Park" here: https://www.nps.gov/seki/learn/historyculture/susan-thew.htm
Dana Dierkes continues to be an interpreter for our public lands and now works with the US National Forest Service in Southern California.
Keep up with our Big Blend Radio CALIFORNIA SEQUOIA COUNTRY podcast that airs every first Thursday, here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzIUCV2e7qm3eTlHYmFnEdev6e2wL9Zgi&feature=shared
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