2nd Annual Threatened And Endangered Parks

2nd Annual Threatened And Endangered Parks: Energy And Mineral Extraction

From the air, the seismic lines worm their way across the landscape of Big Cypress National Preserve in Florida, while under foot some are hard-packed routes that thwart vegetation and alter the flow of the "river of grass." The impairment to the country's first national preserve, a wild remnant of what once covered southern Florida, is both palpable and tangible.
  • January 3rd, 2021

2nd Annual Threatened And Endangered Parks: Historic Sites In Virginia And Mississippi

If plans had proceeded as energy company Cricket Solar had hoped, more than 380,000 solar panels would have been installed in Culpeper County, Virginia—a utility-scale array in the heart of some of the state’s most historic land. Both Union and Confederate armies occupied and fought over the county during the Civil War, and it was a major staging area for the Manassas and Gettysburg campaigns. The scale of the plans led to an outcry from citizens and concerned parties, including filmmaker and Virginia resident Ron Maxwell, director of the 1993 film Gettysburg.
  • January 3rd, 2021

2nd Annual Threatened And Endangered Parks: Natural Darkness And Sounds

Across the Intermountain West, light pollution is significantly altering the dynamics of predator-prey interactions, according to a 2020 study conducted by the University of Michigan. The study --which focused specifically on cougars and their primary prey, mule deer, which are two of the most ecologically important large mammal species in the West -- noted that at certain times and locations, there was “simply too much artificial light and/or human activity for cougars, creating a protective shield for deer.”
  • January 3rd, 2021

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