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Glenn Nelson

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Race & Outdoors (he/him) | Was: @seattletimes @espn | Founded: @hoopgurlz Scout | Proudly Japanese American | #TridentsUp

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Glenn Nelson’s Biography

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Based in Seattle, Wash., Glenn Nelson is the founder of The Trail Posse, which regularly covers race, diversity and inclusion in the outdoors. He also is a founding member of the Next 100 Coalition, a national alliance of organizations of color advocating for equal access to public lands.

Nelson has won several national awards for his writing, photography and web publishing — most recently, second place for Outstanding Beat Reporting (Race, Inclusion and Environmental Justice) by the Society of…

Glenn Nelson’s Journalist Portfolio

One man's quest for diversity in the outdoors

One man's quest for diversity in the outdoors

During my previous life as a sportswriter, an NBA player once made me wait for an arranged interview while he…

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Opinion | Why Are Our Parks So White?

Opinion | Why Are Our Parks So White?

This suggests an alarming disconnect. The Census Bureau projects that the country will have a majority nonwhi…

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It's Time to Think Beyond Bears Ears

It's Time to Think Beyond Bears Ears

The last time I visited Yosemite National Park, I made the jaunt to Glacier Point. Standing at the edge of th…

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How Birds Gave Japanese Prisoners Wings

How Birds Gave Japanese Prisoners Wings

On an air-conditioned bus heading south to Tulelake, California, we fold shimmering sheets of colored paper i…

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Liz "Snorkel" Thomas Wants You to Thru-Hike Your City

Liz "Snorkel" Thomas Wants You to Thru-Hike Your City

With the sun about to kiss the horizon, Liz Thomas (trail name: Snorkel) needs the last rays of the day to il…

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I sat in protest with an athlete in the '90s. It's complicated

I sat in protest with an athlete in the '90s. It's complicated

Twenty-one years ago, I stood with — or, rather, sat with — a black, Muslim NBA player who during the 1995-96…

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Articles

2026 Nature Calls

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By Glenn Nelson Verified
| The Trail Posse Verified
I changed my usual subtitle to, “A Year on the Hunt with Glenn Nelson,” because all the images are of winged predators (see gallery below). This is a nifty flip version of the calendar. As usual, the calendar includes full-color images, printed on nice, glossy paper, with special days noted throughout the year, including many you might not have known about. Please note: Due to the cost of printing these, I have cut my inventory significantly.
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COLUMN | Remembering Lenny Wilkens: The Bigger Man Behind Seattle's Basketball Legacy

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By Glenn Nelson Verified
| South Seattle Emerald
The underground parking level at Madison Square Garden in New York is where my mind went immediately after learning of Lenny Wilkens' death on Sunday. It is not the most positive memory for me of him and, I'd guess, during his lifetime, for him of me, either. How his life and my recollections of Wilkens flowed from that moment in 1985 speak to his greatness and grace, and the sadness I feel at his passing, which is why I fixed upon that long-ago interaction in Midtown Manhattan.
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Red Foxes of San Juan Island

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By Glenn Nelson Verified
| The Trail Posse Verified
Glenn Nelson Based in Seattle, Wash., Glenn Nelson is the founder of The Trail Posse, which explores the intersection of race and the outdoors.
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Awards

Society of Environmental Journalists Award

2017 - Outstanding Beat Reporting, Small Market

Second Place, Beat: Race, Inclusion and Environmental Justice "Glenn Nelson’s work deftly tackles issues of race and diversity in the outdoors, repeatedly exploring the experiences that can make us fall in love with nature, and the social and economic circumstances, and cultural differences that can keep a person of color from finding and deepening those connections. His pieces grapple with the homogeneity that is exacerbating a decline in the national park system and limiting the breadth of the environmental movement. Mr. Nelson’s writing also resonates with personal insight, lending an emotional depth to his stories."

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