An award-winning historian, speaker, and author, Traci Bliss researches and writes about the environmental history of Santa Cruz County, particularly the role of women activists in the creation of the area’s redwood state parks. While serving as a professor at Idaho State University, Traci Bliss was recognized by New York Festivals for her breath-taking documentary of ninth graders engaged in a one-of-a-kind environmental field trip.

1. Bill Lane Center for
the American West
sponsors Santa Cruz
Historian
Traci Bliss

2. Introduction
An award-winning historian, speaker, and author, Traci Bliss researches and
writes about the environmental history of Santa Cruz County, particularly
the role of women activists in the creation of the area’s redwood state parks.
While serving as a professor at Idaho State University, Traci Bliss was
recognized by New York Festivals for her breath-taking documentary of ninth
graders engaged in a one-of-a-kind environmental field trip.
On March 7th at Stanford University, Dr. Bliss will present "Saving Big Basin",
a lecture sponsored by the Bill Lane Center for the American West. The
Center is dedicated to advancing scholarly understanding of the past,
present and future of western North America. Its interdisciplinary focus
provides an ideal setting for Bliss's topic of forest preservation and grass-
roots activism at the beginning of the 20th century. Bliss holds three
degrees from Stanford and a Masters in Public Affairs from the LBJ School at
the University of Texas in Austin.