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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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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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Hades Exhales
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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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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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Yosemite announces biggest expansion in 70 years, adding new meadows and forestland
In its biggest expansion in decades, Yosemite National Park on Wednesday broadened its western boundary by adding 400 acres of lush meadowlands edged with cedars and ponderosa pines that provide habitat for some of California’s most threatened wildlife. The nonprofit Trust for Public Land purchased Ackerson Meadow from private owners for $2.3 million this year and donated it Wednesday to the National Park Service, marking Yosemite National Park’s largest addition of untrammeled wilderness in seven decades. Yosemite now stands at roughly 750,000 acres.
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How Photographs Have Shaped Our View of the National Parks
There were two prominent types of landscape photographs in the 1860s: Civil War battlefields strewn with the dead, and sweeping vistas of the West. By Allison Meier.
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Condor chick born in wild flies from nest at Pinnacles for first time in a century
“She is staying near the nest, doing lot of practice flights. Her parents will help her learn how to fly and where to feed and how to interact with the other wild birds out there.” By Paul Rogers.
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Mysterious American Cat
The Mountain Lions of Los Angeles. By Ryan Bradley.
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A Talent for Sloth
Ten years as a lookout on a fire tower requires a particular aptitude for idleness. By Philip Connors.
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Hiker who fell into Yellowstone hot spring 'dissolved overnight'
The body of a hiker who who fell into a hot spring at Yellowstone Park was never retrieved because it "most likely dissolved overnight."
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Nestlé and Coca-Cola Attempt to Block National Parks From Banning Bottled Water Sales
Single-use water bottles generate up to 20 percent of the waste in National Parks but Congress is preventing their ban. By Alexis Bonogofsky.
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A Death in Yellowstone
On the trail of a killer grizzly bear. By Jessica Grose
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Another day, another dead wildlife ranger. Where is the outrage?
Every year more than 100 wildlife rangers are murdered in the line of duty. Why do they get so little support? And where is the outrage?
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New Posters Imagine [U.S.] National Parks in 2050; It’s Not Pretty
A new poster series from Hannah Rothstein takes iconic landscapes and imagines what they’ll look like in 2050 with climate change. By Brian Kahn.
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WPA-Style Posters Imagine a Bleak Future for US National Parks
Artist Hannah Rothstein created a series of images in the style of vintage posters for US National Parks that imagines what they will look like if we don't act against climate change.
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How a Deadly Prison Island Became a Natural Paradise
For almost 100 years, Coíba was inhabited only by criminals and political prisoners. Now it's one of the most biodiverse regions on the planet. By Sarah Gibbens.
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Kaibab Elegy
SkyGlowProject
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Presidents can't undo national monuments, new study says
As Utah political leaders continue predicting President Donald Trump will shrink or even erase the new Bears Ears National Monument, a soon-to-be published legal analysis concludes that presidents have no authority to mess with monuments… By Brian Maffly.
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Grand Canyon at risk as Arizona officials ask Trump to end uranium mining ban
Powerful regional officials to ask administration to end 20-year ban, saying it is unlawful and inhibits economic opportunity. By Joanna Walters.
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