It might be Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah, or perhaps Colorado’s Garden of the Gods. The eerie landscape, tucked into the foothills of California’s Sierra Nevada, boasts spectacular topography. California park ranger Ken Huie flashes an ironic smile. “Isn’t nature wonderful?” he says jokingly.
In fact, the striking sculptures of Malakoff Diggins State Historic Park are not the handiwork of Mother Nature, but of her children. Dating back a mere 140 years, their haunting if hideous beauty testifies to an early case of environmental assault—but one in which the good guys finally won. Here was fought one of the first successful environmental lawsuits in U.S. history. Read more
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