Four most polluted national park sites are in California
A couple years ago, as part of the Sierra Club’s Outdoors for All campaign, Roberto Morales took a group of low-income Los Angeles area residents north to Sequoia National Park …
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2 California sites among the least visited national parks in the United States in 2023
By Marnie Hunter | CNN There are no roads and no trails in America’s least-visited national park. Just vast wilderness. Alaska’s Gates of the Arctic National Park & Preserve, located …
As climate changes, we’re all headed downhill to Death Valley
If the world really is going to hell, please get your brakes checked. The ride will be very downhill. I learned that lesson, among others, after my own brakes smoked …
The 1 Destination That Made Travel Experts Fall In Love With Travel
Ask any travel expert why they got into the business, and they’ll likely be quick to shout out a specific destination that stole their heart. Maybe it was the incredible …
Time running out for boat that became social media star
Associated Press INVERNESS — Time is apparently running out for California’s “Inverness Shipwreck,” an old wooden boat that became an Instagram star as it rotted on a shoreline north of …
Here’s when you can visit a national park for free in 2024
Grand Canyon National Park Jacobs Stock Photography | Photodisc | Getty Images The National Park Service is offering free admission to U.S. national parks on six days in 2024. There …
Want to visit Yosemite this summer? You’ll need a reservation
Does the wilderness feel less wild when it must be scheduled? Summer visitors driving to Yosemite National Park will soon find out, when the park moves to a reservation-only entry …
California study finds redwood trees store buds, carbon for fire events
BOULDER CREEK — A recently published, multiyear study about the recovery of redwood trees in Big Basin Redwoods State Park after the CZU Lightning Complex fires shows that long-stored carbon …
Why environmentalists are suing the National Park Service to prevent it from planting trees
By Jonathan Park and Janna Van Vranken | CNN The National Park Service wants to replant sequoia groves in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, where wildfires in 2020 and …
What’s behind E. coli at Point Reyes National Seashore?
The National Park Service has found E. coli bacteria levels well above health standards in several water bodies around the Point Reyes National Seashore, reigniting the contentious debate over the …