Lands & Waters: Parks & Wilderness
FreeHouse Helps You Heed the Call of the Wild
By Wendy Becktold October 28, 2016The vacation-rental booking service lists off-the-grid properties where travelers can truly unplug
Real Men Gather Musk Ox Wool
By Michael Engelhard October 13, 2016Just outside Nome, Alaska, the bushes are hung with qiviut, the insanely valuable underwool of the musk ox
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Environmental News, ICYMI
By Paul Rauber October 13, 2016Two months of environmental news, distilled
Looking for the Real Silent Night
By Amanda Castleman October 13, 2016The One Square Inch of Silence within Olympic Park's Hoh Rain Forest
Protecting The Boundary Waters Canoe Area
Text and photographs by Conor Mihell October 19, 2016America's most popular federal wilderness is menaced by a giant copper-and-nickel mine
Check Out this Amazing Photo of Fireflies Lighting up a Japanese Bamboo Grove
October 12, 2016A thousand points of light: Photographer Kei Nomiyama captures fireflies at dusk
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The World Wood Web
By Melina Sempill Watts October 12, 2016On arboreal communication and the glory of leaves
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Wildfires in Western United States Increasing Exponentially Due to Climate Change
By Jonathan Hahn October 11, 2016 Human-induced global warming doubled the amount of forest fire area in the last 30 years, according to new report
Every (Fourth Grade) Kid in a Park
By Suki Gear October 1, 2016The Department of the Interior wants 10-year-olds to get off the screen and get into a national park