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Produced by the California State Park volunteer group, Auburn State Recreation Area Canyon Keepers (ASRACK), for trails in the Auburn State Recreation Area (ASRA) in the Northern California Sierra foothills.
Conservation efforts on the Wild & Scenic North Fork American River stretch back over a century. Private landowners sought to protect wildflowers, wildlife and the watershed from development. At the same time, they sought to shape or maintain the landscape of the river in accordance with their own aesthetic preferences. Diverse groups sought to establish the river as Wild & Scenic in the 1970s. In recent decades, land trusts have purchased significant acreage in the North Fork in a push for broader conservation and public access. Why? More specifically — How have historic, economic, legal and aesthetic structures shaped the acceptance and growth of conservation in the North Fork? This project utilizes numerous methods in attempting to answer that question — archival fieldwork, interviews, representation of place through time, GIS, cartography, comparative case study analysis and muddy boots fieldwork. The project operates under an overarching theoretical framework built on a posthumanist political ecology approach that decenters human concerns as primary, focuses on political/power relations and their effect on biophysical reality and argues for a conception of the world that accounts for the equitable consideration of more than human entities. The approach both broadens the acceptance of who matters and deepens potential understanding of places and their associated landscapes. It also calls for greater humility in our approach to the entities with whom we share the Pluriverse and increased attention to the rights of the more than human world. This approach does more than help us understand the current state of the North Fork American River. It also allows us to see the importance of conservation efforts to the future health of all forms of life, including our own.