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You Can Thank These Depression-Era Workers for Your National Parks
Daily life in the Civilian Conservation Corps is preserved in a new National Park Service archive. By Erin Blakemore.
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25 Photos that Reveal a Century of the National Park Service
From California to Alaska, this breathtaking gallery celebrations the natural wonders of the United States' National Parks
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Hades Exhales
SkyGlowProject
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An Alien, Underwater Village
Armoured in scuba gear, battling below-freezing 45mph gusts and jammed between sliding ice sheets weighing in the tons, photographer Chris Gug had a moment of reckoning while submerged in Montana’s frigid Grinnell Glacier Lake.
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The Definitive Ranking of Livestream Wildlife Cams
We witnessed sad sharks, baby bison in danger, and more puffins than any one person deserves to see in a day—and we've determined which stream should occupy your 24 hours.
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The Legend of Dope Lake
It seemed too good to be true: a smuggler’s plane stuck in one of Yosemite’s frozen lakes, with three tons of primo weed there for the taking. By Greg Nichols.
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River Revives After Largest Dam Removal in U.S. History
Fish are thriving and the environment has been reshaped following a major dam removal project in Washington State. By Brian Clark Howard.
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Bear kills biker in Montana, in seventh fatal grizzly attack since 2010 in the Northern Rockies
Scientists agree that bear attacks will continue to increase in frequency. By Wesley Yiin.
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10 Months, 45 National Parks, 11 Rules
Drive the speed limit, use paper maps, avoid interstates, and other rules for doing road trips right.
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National Park Maps
The U.S. National Park Service publishes tons of great free maps; I’ve collected them all for you here. On this site you can download 1,053 free PDF and high-resolution image files of U.S. national park maps.
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Sexual Harassment Investigation Will Expand to Entire National Park System
National Park Service director Jonathan Jarvis has ordered a survey to determine if misconduct at the Grand Canyon represents a widespread problem. By Elizabeth Shogren and Lyndsey Gilpin.
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Point Reyes National Seashore: A Brief History of a Working Landscape
A mere forty windy miles north of San Francisco, Point Reyes National Seashore is a working landscape, containing dairies and ranches that have been in place for generations. However, with mixed use comes disagreement over the proper use of the space and discussions on the purpose of national park system units.
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Park Service dissolves rafting unit after harassment charges
The unit of Grand Canyon National Park that ran river trips has been dismantled following a report by a federal watchdog that found a longstanding pattern of sexual harassment there.
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Homeless Are Flocking to America’s Forests, But It’s Damaging the Land
The woods are an attractive option for people who want to live off the grid, or a last resort for those with nowhere else to go. But indefinite camping is damaging forests. By Garnet Henderson.
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Yellowstone To Slaughter Up To 900 Bison
At one time, there were as many as 60 million buffalo roaming North America, so many that they became the symbolic representation of our westward expansion. Unfortunately for them, they were also a popular food source for a rapidly expanding army of settlers, profitable for traders, and relatively easy to capture and kill. By 1884, there were only around 325 of the beasts left in the wild, with just 25 of them in Yellowstone National Park.
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Merced National Wildlife Refuge is One of California's Little-Known Treasures
This small refuge in the middle of the Central Valley of California is a birder's paradise.
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Stunning Vintage Photos Show the History of National Parks
A new National Geographic book explores wild places as you've never seen them.
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Say Hello to the Glow-in-the-Dark Ponies of Dartmoor
Will reflective paint stripes protect the fabled English park's ponies from speeding motorists?
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If you want to see them, you’d better hurry. Iconic glaciers are disappearing — fast.
e river of ice that hugs Mount Grinnell’s high ridges is neither big nor particularly beautiful, but it may be the most accessible glacier in all of North America. In as little as three hours, an average hiker can traverse the mountain’s well-groomed trail to plant a foot on a frozen relic of the Little Ice Age. But if you want to see it, you’d better hurry. Grinnell Glacier is disappearing — fast.
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The man who inspired Charles Darwin
Do Charles Waterton's philosophies of protecting all animals – even those that are feared or seen as less useful – still work in modern-day Canada, 150 years after his death?
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