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- By Kurt Repanshek - January 14th, 2021 2:00am
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Pikas Are Adapting To Climate Change Remarkably Well
Climate change is harming many special places and iconic species around our planet, from Glacier National Park’s disappearing glaciers to California redwoods scorched by wildfires. But for the animal I study, the American pika (Ochotona princeps), there’s actually some good news: It’s not as threatened by climate change as many studies have warned.
- By NPT Staff - January 8th, 2021 2:00am
Year-End Quiz: Musicians And National Parks, The Answers
So, how well do you know your musicians and their national park connections?
- By Kurt Repanshek - December 30th, 2020 1:45am
Review | The Nature Of Yosemite: A Visual Journey
Stuck inside during the COVID pandemic? Suffering some cabin fever and dreaming of wild and beautiful places like Yosemite National Park? This book by biologist and photographer Robb Hirsch might help relieve the pain just a little.
- By John Miles - December 14th, 2020 2:00am
Fish And Wildlife Service Wants To List Whitebark Pines As Threatened Species
Not quite a decade after agreeing whitebark pines were a species in need of Endangered Species Act protection, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service now is proposing to list the iconic trees as threatened under the act.
- By Kurt Repanshek - December 14th, 2020 1:45am
UPDATE | Some National Parks In California Closing Campgrounds, Lodges Due To Covid
A stay-at-home order issued in California in a bid to slow the spread of Covid-19 has led to the closure of some campgrounds and overnight stays in national parks in the state.
- By Kurt Repanshek - December 7th, 2020 1:29pm
Where Will You Explore Winter In The National Park System?
Winter, the season with cold, snow, short days and long nights, can be a challenging season to explore the National Park System. Yet it also holds surprises that reveal themselves in shimmering lights darting across the night sky, in tracks of what passed the night before across the snowscape, and in congregations of wildlife.
- By Kurt Repanshek - December 6th, 2020 10:34am
Why Are Mature Sequoias Dying At Kings Canyon, Sequoia, And Yosemite National Parks?
Researchers are trying to determine why some mature sequoia trees in Sequoia and Yosemite national parks have died.
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- By NPT Staff - November 17th, 2020 1:45am
Yosemite Conservancy Funds $14 Million In Projects At Yosemite National Park
In a year that has tested and strained national parks and National Park Service staff at times, the Yosemite Conservancy has been able to provide $14 million for education, preservation, research and other projects at Yosemite National Park.
- By NPT Staff - November 8th, 2020 2:00am
Review | Leave It As It Is: A Journey Through Theodore Roosevelt’s American Wilderness
Leave it as It Is is the most engaging and powerful book about Western public lands that I have read in a long time. Gessner published a terrific book in 2015 titled All the Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West, and I find some Abbey and Stegner in this new book, both in style and content. He traveled the West in search of Abbey and Stegner in that book as he does with Teddy Roosevelt in this one. He looks at all these icons in the context of the modern West with a clear and analytical eye.
- By John Miles - November 3rd, 2020 2:00am
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