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Uncertainties In Climate Change Are A Riddle For The Park Service’s Future Plans

Climate change is leaving National Park Service managers with stark choices: Stand by as the world warms to a point where ancient trees might no longer survive, or intervene so those trees may no longer be considered wild and national parks become something along the lines of national gardens.

Audio Postcard From The Parks | Battling Russian Olive At Glen Canyon NRA

Crews head down into Glen Canyon NRA along the Escalante River to physically remove invasive Russian olive.

Across the National Park System, some 2 million acres have been invaded by non-native vegetation. At Glen Canyon National Recreation Area in Utah, crews physically cut down Russian olive trees and use Roundup to prevent regrowth of this invader.

National Parks Traveler Editor Kurt Repanshek backpacked in with the crew from Grand Staircase Escalante Partners to learn more about this project and watch them at work.

A Bend In The Escalante River, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area

Kayakers and empty kayaks on a sand bar along the Escalante River, looking up at a tall rock formation in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area

"The Escalante River traverses some of the finest canyon country of the Colorado Plateau and offers river-floating enthusiasts the opportunity to enjoy magnificent, wild, redrock canyon scenery. Because it is rugged and remote and sustains only limited flows, the Escalante River also provides unique challenges to the river runner."

Paxson Woelber
A Bend In The Escalante River

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