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Play Hard, But Play Safe

Every day we are overwhelmed with stunning photos from the National Park System. Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest, along with other websites and social media outlets, feed us spectacular photos of high country lakes, wild grizzlies, bison, glaciers, and stunning peaks. While they provide the inspiration to head out into the parks, they don’t always show how difficult and, sometimes, how dangerous, it can actually be.

It Is The (Almost) Perfect Campground

Seventy-five degrees at mid-day, no noticeable humidity, Northern flickers calling in the background in their seasonal courting ritual. And five deer, working on losing their winter coats, moseying past my campsite while I worked on this story. Add the breathtaking setting of the Black Hills, the vacant campsites surrounding me, and it’s hard not to argue that the Elk Mountain Campground at Wind Caves National Park is perfect.

Blue Duck Ships Store Leased To Islesford Boatworks

Islesford Boatworks, a community-based non-profit organization, entered into an agreement with the National Park Service at Acadia National Park to lease the historic Blue Duck Ships Store. Islesford Boatworks will host boatbuilding programs in the Blue Duck starting this summer on Little Cranberry Island. The Blue Duck is located across the lawn from the Islesford Historical Museum.

Donkey Rescue Group To Relocate Burros From Death Valley National Park

Burros set free by long-ago prospectors who failed to strike it rich in the landscape now known as Death Valley National Park have steadily increased in number. Today there are an estimated 2,000 of these non-native animals in the park. Within five years, that number could be virtually wiped out under an agreement the park has reached with a Texas organization.