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Around The Parks: Compendium Changes, Fire Management, And Rocky Mountain Research Projects

Just because it’s winter and many trails, areas, and facilities within the national parks are closed for the season doesn’t mean a shutdown of the parks’ news. Below are a few items that have come to the Traveler’s attention and are now brought to your attention.

Photography In The National Parks: Being Prepared And Knowing Your Limits

Are you ready for that national park trip? Traveling solo, or with one or more people? Is this a spur-of-the-moment choice or have you done a little research into things like the weather, the terrain, and/or the difficulty level of the trails in this park unit? Are you taking what you need for yourself and your camera?

Photography In The National Parks: A Great Time In Great Basin National Park

Great Basin National Park in Nevada covers 77,100 acres of desert and mountain terrain, providing plenty of opportunities for great photo compositions. Contributing photographer Rebecca Latson recently returned from a three-day visit to this national park and provides examples of the kind of shots you can get with your own camera.

I Spy With My Tiny Eye: Climbers Going Up Half Dome, Yosemite National Park

A telephoto close-up of a portion of Half Dome, with tiny ant-like people climbing the granite rock wall of the formation using installed cables in Yosemite National Park

"Rising nearly 5,000 feet above Yosemite Valley and 8,800 feet above sea level, Half Dome is a Yosemite icon and a great challenge to many hikers. Despite an 1865 report declaring that it was 'perfectly inaccessible, being probably the only one of the prominent points about the Yosemite which never has been, and never will be, trodden by human foot,' George Anderson reached the summit in 1875, in the process laying the predecessor to today's cable route."

Rebecca Latson

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