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Trails I’ve Hiked: Kīlauea Iki Trail

Imagine a lake of bright yellow-orange lava with a molten fountain gushing 1,900 feet (580m) in the air. Now imagine walking across a smoothed solid rock surface where that lava lake once churned, guided by ahu (rock cairns) past a tall cinder cone as you aim toward the other side. That’s the experience of the Kīlauea Iki Trail in Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park.

Court Finds U.S. Fish And Wildlife Service, Forest Service Violated Law By Allowing Killing Of Yellowstone Ecosystem Grizzlies

A unanimous 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel ruled Thursday that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service violated the Endangered Species Act in 2019 when it authorized the killing of up to 72 grizzly bears in part of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem south of Yellowstone National Park and east of Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.
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Supreme Court Wetlands Ruling Called Damaging To National Parks

A ruling Thursday by the U.S. Supreme Court that limits the federal government's Clean Water Act oversight of water pollution impacting wetlands is damaging to national parks from Everglades National Park and Great Smoky Mountains National Park to Indiana Dunes National Park and other units of the National Park System, according to the National Parks Conservation Association.