Legislation Calls For Expansion Of Joshua Tree National Park, Creation Of Chuckwalla National Monument
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Happy New Year, Travelers! Where will the trail take you for 2024? Perhaps to Joshua Tree National Park in southern California?
The Traveler asked contributing photographer and writer Rebecca Latson what parks she might want to visit that she'd never traveled to before and this month's Park Photo of The Week is a photographic list of the parks in which she'd like to photograph this year or in the coming years. Maybe these parks are places you've already visited, or places to which you'd like to travel, yourself.
"The night sky is a glittering dome peppered with stars, planets, and passing meteors—but most people no longer get to see it. In urban and suburban settings, artificial lighting and atmospheric pollutants wash out the light of the stars. This is a serious loss. For millennia, our ancestors experienced a dark night sky. Cultures around the world told stories about the constellations and used the stars as a calendar. Only for the past few generations have humans been denied the chance to stand in awe of the heavens.
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