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Winter Programs Getting Under Way At North Cascades Institute

As snow falls in the North Cascades of Washington state and the highway closes for another winter, life is slower and quieter at the Environmental Learning Center at the North Cascades Institute. After a busy summer and fall of teaching, the institute's naturalists are off for a well-earned break, some upriver staff head out on furlough, but learning continues at the organization's campus on Diablo Lake.

Everglades National Park Among 17 Sites Worldwide With Critical Conservation Outlook

Urbanization, agricultural runoff, and water management in South Florida along with climate change and invasive species have combined to create a cocktail of threats to Everglades National Park, placing it among 17 natural World Heritage Sites deemed to have a “critical” conservation outlook by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

Pew Trusts: Repairing National Park System's Infrastructure Would Create More Than 110,000 Jobs

More than 16,000 jobs in California. Another 8,054 in Wyoming. And nearly 7,300 in Virginia. All told, if Congress provided the funds to tackle the National Park Service's $11.3 billion maintenance backlog, it would create more than 110,000 jobs across the country, according to an analysis.