How natural and unnatural sounds impact the debate about whether America has true wilderness.
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Grand Canyon National Park
A follow up to Tuesday’s look at whether America has true wilderness, or if wilderness is just a frame of mind.
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Compass Points starts a conversation about whether America has true wilderness, or is it a state of mind?
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Escape Tucson’s urbanscape for this day hike in Saguaro National Park, Ariz.
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Changes are coming to Grand Canyon National Park’s camping permit system. Find out what they are and how these changes will impact local businesses.
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Turquoise water and red rocks blend at Havasu Falls.
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What’s up, Pointers? Just a quick stop to let you all know that the Senate finally on Sept. 25 confirmed Jon Jarvis as director of the National Park Service. Now, the NPS and the U.S. Interior Department can finally get on with the business of caring for and overseeing the nation’s park land. Jarvis’ confirmation quickly [...]
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I’m going to try to say this respectfully, but things like this are just upsetting. From the Seattle Post Intelligencer: Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Oklahoma, the man who held up Washington’s Wild Sky Wilderness, has put a “hold” on confirmation of John Jarvis as the new director of the National Park Service. Coburn and Rep. Rob [...]
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If you love national parks and haven’t signed up to watch Tony Farley’s fantastic Beautiful Places in HD podcast on iTunes, c’mon, hop to it. Farley’s camera creates digital images as close to human-eye perfection as I’ve ever seen, and each three- to five-minute podcast has such a serene ambiance, you’d gratefully fall asleep if [...]
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I want to confess. Regarding the debate over whether people should be permitted to carry loaded guns into national parks, I’m a little torn between both sides. I do believe the words “well regulated” as they appear in the U.S. Constitution’s second amendment means government control over gun rights. I’m a firm believer in the [...]
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