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Essay | The Bear Boys Of Yellowstone And Marlin Perkins Of Wild Kingdom

I don’t know about you, but I’m so disgusted by the slimy sleazy sludge oozing out of Washington and the White House these days that I hardly bother to read accounts of it even in Traveler because there’s no way to escape the latest political twists, turns and tweets trying to distract us all from what’s really happening behind the curtain. I’m feeling a lot like one of my daughters probably felt a long time ago when, after a day that didn’t go well, she climbed onto my lap, snuggled in and asked, “Will you tell me a happy story?”

Traveler's View | Gagging The National Park Service, The Information Blackout In The Parks

As the partial government shutdown drags on towards its fourth week, so does the National Park Service's blackout on news regarding what's going on in the parks with most of the staff furloughed. When the government does get back to work, expect more than a few Freedom of Information Act requests filed concerning not just the decision-making regarding keeping the parks open, but what damage occurred.

Wild Migrations: Atlas Of Wyoming’s Ungulates

This book is an atlas unlike any that I have seen. Its focus is not on a national park but on the state of Wyoming in which two national parks, Grand Teton and Yellowstone, are very much at the core of migrations of elk, bison, and mule deer. Many migrations in the state do not touch on these national parks, but the point of the book is that migratory ungulate populations, once nearly eradicated by overhunting and other factors, are mostly on the rebound.

Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore Protects A Portal To Lake Michigan

We hiked through the trees, towards a break in the canopy that told us Lake Michigan was just up ahead. My mom and I had been driving mere minutes before, pulling a U-turn when a brown sign told us that an Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore access point sat less than a mile away. Having never before seen one of the famous Great Lakes, I couldn't pass up the opportunity to view the ocean-like vista with my own two eyes.
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