Will LaPage

AMAZON AUTHOR

The Fall of the Steward is, of course, fictional. However, it will ring as an entirely plausible fiction to the thousands of park stewards who chafe at the inevitable threats and damage that is done whenever parks are mindlessly shut down as “non-essential government services”. For people who have dedicated their careers and their lives to protecting parks for the public to enjoy, closing the gates to our parks ranks along with irresponsibly deferring park maintenance to the tune of tens of billions of dollars across the spectrum of federal and state parklands.

The author brings a wealth of parks experience to this, his second novel—experience spanning ten years as director of New Hampshire state parks, twenty years of park science with the U. S. Forest Service, consulting for national park systems on four continents, serving on President Reagan’s Commission on Americans Outdoors, ten years of teaching park management at three universities, and selection as poet-in-residence at three national parks. His textbook, Parks for Life, sums up his philosophy about parks: “They are far too important to be left to the bureaucracy, but that’s what we’ve done. I believe we can do better!”