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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Calling in the substitutes

by davepidgeon on June 30, 2009

Loving America’s national parks is easy. But too often, the wilderness that borders our iconic parkland goes overlooked even though the scenery and wildlife can be just as abundant as those inside Yosemite, Zion and others. Shenandoah National Park in northern Virginia is home to some breathtaking views and fantastic trails, but even wilder is [...]

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Salazar: I would carry a gun into a national park

by davepidgeon on May 19, 2009

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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