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Photography In The National Parks: Road Trippin’ The Canadian Rockies!

Traveler contributing photographer Rebecca Latson took herself and her cameras on a 2,000-mile September road trip to visit four national parks in the Canadian Rockies. Despite the mixed bag of weather and clash of expectations versus reality on the road, Rebecca captured amazing shots which she uses to illustrate tips and techniques for your own national park road trip.

Former Rocky Mountain Superintendent Honored By NPCA

Darla Sidles, who during her time as superintendent of Rocky Mountain National Park worked to solve the park's congestion problems, and launched the New Generation Ranger Program at Saguaro National Park when she was superintendent there, has been honored with the Stephen T. Mather Award from the National Parks Conservation Association.

Canada Close To Finalizing The Establishment Of Labrador Park

Canada is closer to finalizing the establishment of Akami-Uapishkᵁ-KakKasuak-Mealy Mountains National Park Reserve in Labrador and will permit and regulate traditional land use activities in it. It also moved closer to finalizing the establishment of Tallurutiup Imanga National Marine Conservation Area in Nunavut, upon completion of its interim management plan.

Sunday On National Parks Traveler's Podcast: Footprints In Time

As you walk through the white gyp-sum sands of White Sands National Park in southern New Mexico, your footprints will likely be quickly erased by shifting winds. So it’s somewhat of a phenomenon of nature that the oldest footprints ever discovered in North America are not only found here – in perfect form, having withstood time and weather, but show that ancient humans lived here much earlier than previously believed.