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Natchez Trace Parkway Staff Hopes To Screen Development From Parkway

How do you screen a housing development proposed to be built on both sides of the Natchez Trace Parkway near Birdsong Hollow in Tennessee from motorists on the scenic route? The National Park Service doesn't have the authority to halt the development, which would go on an area historically managed as open agricultural land. But the developers are interested in working on a screening solution, and your thoughts are welcome.

How Isle Royale National Park Biologists Chose Wolves For Their Recovery Operation

You probably wouldn't feel comfortable being uprooted from your community and tossed into a new one with three other strangers. So why did National Park Service biologists capture four unrelated wolves to begin to rebuild a population of the predators at Isle Royale National Park in Lake Superior? Part of it was strictly chance.

The Future Of Conservation In America: A Chart for Rough Waters

The subtitle of this book was carefully chosen. “A Chart for Rough Waters” was the title of a 1940 book in which Waldo Frank argued that Western democracies must meet immediate challenges, such as the assaults on them by Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, but at the same time “address underlying causes that will require progress that ‘fills the lives of even our youngest children.’” Machlis and Jarvis offer a similar message for conservation – battle the assault on conservation by the Trump administration in the courts and the fields of public opinion, but at the same time work with “strategic intention” for a conservation agenda that will serve the long term.

Longs Peak Is A Popular, But Potentially Deadly, Rocky Mountain National Park Destination

When searchers this week headed into the Longs Peak region of Rocky Mountain National Park to look for a missing hiker, it was the fourth such hunt in that part of the park this year. Though there are other search-and-rescue missions in the park, those in the Longs Peak area seem to garner the most attention.

UPDATED: Another Search Underway Near Longs Peak In Rocky Mountain National Park

Rangers encountered deep snow and high winds Tuesday as they searched the Longs Peak area of Rocky Mountain National Park for a cadet candidate from the U.S. Air Force Academy who hasn't been heard from since late Friday. It marked at least the fourth time this year that a major search-and-rescue mission was called out to that part of the park.