Eastern mountain ranges too often, and unjustly, are given short shrift for their majesty when compared to Western ranges. But as George Wuerthner makes clear in the following essay, the White Mountains in New Hampshire not only are an amazing tract of wilderness-quality forests, streams and lakes, but deserve to be embraced by the National Park System.

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Jasper National Park will celebrate National Indigenous Peoples Day with a day of festivities in Robson Park across the street from the library.

Early summer is an incredible season to visit Grand Teton National Park in western Wyoming. The forests, meadows, and wetlands are greening up, runoff has filled Pilgrim, Spread, and Pacific creeks, there's still a good measure of snow on the craggy Tetons, and wildlife abounds.