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The name of the organization is probably based on an essay called "Thinking like a mountain" by Aldo Leopold. Writing in 1949, Leopold is considered to be one o

The name of the organization is probably based on an essay called "Thinking like a mountain" by Aldo Leopold. Writing in 1949, Leopold is considered to be one of the first ecologists. It's a beautifully poetic and prophetic text. I happen to be living on a mountain in southern Tuscany. A place where wolf where hunted to the brink of extinction and the deer population is exploding. This essay resonates with me in profound ways. The essay (PDF): https://www.ecotoneinc.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/aldo-leopold-tlam.pdf https://www.ecotoneinc.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/aldo-l... PS. the whole book is worth reading.

DoreenMichele 5y ago
Thanks. It's possible the tagline was Thinking like a mountain rather than seeing like a mountain. I want to say the organization was called Denali but that is now the name of a mountain in Alaska that was formerly known as Mt. McKinley. That change occurred in 2015. So searching for Denali gets me results for that specific mountain and things related to it, not for an environmentally oriented charity. I am failing to find verification that there ever was such an organization. So I don't know if I am misremembering the name.
- cinntaile 5y ago
  Denali is the original name of the mountain. Given by the indigenous people living there. Some dude just started calling it Mt McKinley for political reasons and everyone just accepted that, this decision was simply reversed.
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  - Turing_Machine 5y ago
    > Given by the indigenous people living there. Well, some of them called it something kinda-sorta close to that. Other groups of indigenous people called it by other names. Alaska Natives aren't one homogeneous group, by any means. It's quite large, so it was visible to many different groups (on a good day I can see it from here, and it's about 130 miles/200 km away). But Denali is definitely better than McKinley, no question about that.
- runarberg 5y ago
  According to Wikipedia, the name was officially changed back in 1975 by the Alaskan Government. However it wasn’t recognized by the federal government until 2015. Apparently the state of Ohio (which does not contain the mountain) opposed the name correction and successfully resisted for 40 years. Since Alaska was already a state in 1975 I would say that the mountain’s name was officially recognized as Denali in some states from 1975. However it took until 2015 for the rest of the country to officially adopt it.
  - mattkrause 5y ago
    FYI: Ohio's interest stemmed from the fact that William McKinley, for whom the mountain was renamed, was born in Ohio and served as its governor before becoming presidents.

DoreenMichele 5y ago

Thanks. It's possible the tagline was Thinking like a mountain rather than seeing like a mountain. I want to say the organization was called Denali but that is now the name of a mountain in Alaska that was formerly known as Mt. McKinley. That change occurred in 2015. So searching for Denali gets me results for that specific mountain and things related to it, not for an environmentally oriented charity. I am failing to find verification that there ever was such an organization. So I don't know if I am misremembering the name.

cinntaile 5y ago
Denali is the original name of the mountain. Given by the indigenous people living there. Some dude just started calling it Mt McKinley for political reasons and everyone just accepted that, this decision was simply reversed.
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- Turing_Machine 5y ago
  > Given by the indigenous people living there. Well, some of them called it something kinda-sorta close to that. Other groups of indigenous people called it by other names. Alaska Natives aren't one homogeneous group, by any means. It's quite large, so it was visible to many different groups (on a good day I can see it from here, and it's about 130 miles/200 km away). But Denali is definitely better than McKinley, no question about that.
runarberg 5y ago
According to Wikipedia, the name was officially changed back in 1975 by the Alaskan Government. However it wasn’t recognized by the federal government until 2015. Apparently the state of Ohio (which does not contain the mountain) opposed the name correction and successfully resisted for 40 years. Since Alaska was already a state in 1975 I would say that the mountain’s name was officially recognized as Denali in some states from 1975. However it took until 2015 for the rest of the country to officially adopt it.
- mattkrause 5y ago
  FYI: Ohio's interest stemmed from the fact that William McKinley, for whom the mountain was renamed, was born in Ohio and served as its governor before becoming presidents.