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Show 47 of Utah's five national parks were used to retrieve articles for analysis. 123 The articles cover from 1918 to 1972 - from the year before the designation of Zion National Park to the year after the designation of Capitol Reef National Park. The San Francisco Examiner also published throughout the time frame of this research and is available on microfilm. The paper has been indexed from September 1913 to September 1928. For articles not included in the indexed time periods, the method for retrieving stories mirrored that of The Salt Lake Tribune and Deseret News where no index exists. Newspaper articles collected with indexes or page-by-page searches were included in this analysis if they mentioned one or more of Utah's national parks. As these stories were examined, themes emerged that shed light on the research questions. Many magazine journalists pioneered reporting and advocacy of environmental issues during the time covered by this research. Magazines such as Cosmopolitan and McClure's focused on issues Iha! were otherwise absent from mass media. In fact, one of the carliesl mass media reports describing Zion National Park was a Scribner's magazine article, "A New Valley of Wonders," published in 1904. 124 In short, magazines also were important players in the coverage of environmental issues. Although the role of magazines is crucial for a full understanding of environmental journalism history, this research focuses exclusively on newspapers for several reasons. First, the papers in this study were published continuously throughout the 121 For c:,;ample, the area that is now known as Zion National Park has also been Muckun1wcap National Monument and Zion National Monument. Locally it wa~ also called Little Zion or Muckuntweap. 12• F. S. Dellenbaugh, "A New Valley of Wonders," Scribner's 35, no. I (January 1904): l-18. |
