National Parks

Trouble with chicks

Where the Sahara meets the Atlantic 0
Posted 2 weeks, 5 days ago The Banc d'Arguin, where the Sahara meets the Atlantic in Mauritania, is a staging post for over two million exhausted migratory birds from Europe and Siberia. This vital geographic point is threatened by climate change.
this land is his land

Meet your new national parks chief 7
Posted 4 weeks, 1 day ago National Parks are not going down without a fight, says newly confirmed park service director Jonathan Jarvis.
from the sacred to the profane

Wal-Mart’s history of destroying sacred sites 1
Posted 2 months ago
A re-consecration ceremony was held this past weekend at a damaged Indian mound in Oxford, Ala.
Urine Trouble

If it’s Yellowstone, leave it mellow-stone? 1
Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago
After editing Grist's three-part series on poop recently, it's easy to explain why the weird news out of Yellowstone National Park caught this writer's attention.
National Treasures

Helping America’s national parks survive climate change 2
Posted 6 months ago
The planet is awash in a rising flood of carbon dioxide that threatens to forever change our marine, forest, grassland, desert, and mountain ecosystems. We see early signs of these changes in national parks throughout the country -- the canaries in the coal mine of climate change.
Documentary: Cascading Effects 0
Posted 7 months ago
Give Me Your Knobby Tired

Rule change would allow more mountain biking in national parks 11
Posted 10 months, 3 weeks ago
Bush administration moves to allow guns in national parks and wildlife refuges 3
Posted 11 months, 1 week ago
Yes We Canyon

BLM backs off from plan to allow oil drilling near Utah national parks 0
Posted 11 months, 2 weeks ago
Come Over Here, Sweet Thing

Competing offer for U.S. Sugar complicates Everglades restoration plan 3
Posted 11 months, 3 weeks ago
The Long, Weak End

EPA pushes ahead with weaker clean-air rules near national parks 1
Posted 11 months, 3 weeks ago
Guerrilla vs. Gorilla

Mountain gorillas threatened by violence in Congo 2
Posted 11 months, 3 weeks ago
What's the Snowmo' Deal?

New, more restrictive plan released for Yellowstone snowmobiles 3
Posted 1 year ago
Prowling Europe’s last lowland old growth forest 5
Posted 1 year ago
Where the presidential candidates stand on public-lands issues 27
Posted 1 year ago
No Longer Handle Barred

Bush admin aims to increase mountain-bike access to national parks 6
Posted 1 year ago
The Wolf Trap Center connects art and nature 1
Posted 1 year, 1 month ago
Leave Yellowstone Unturned

Judge tosses federal plan to allow more snowmobiles into Yellowstone 4
Posted 1 year, 1 month ago
Sweet and Sour

Everglades restoration deal could still benefit Big Sugar 2
Posted 1 year, 1 month ago
Tiger Balm

Tigers and elephants applaud expansion of Sumatra park 1
Posted 1 year, 2 months ago