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Glacier National Park Gains Tools For Managing Sun Road Visitors

Growing crowds year after year are not only making it harder and harder to find parking spots at popular locations in your favorite national park, but solitude along some trails is also more difficult to find, and resources are being impacted. Nowhere in Glacier National Park is this more obvious than along the Going-to-the-Sun Road corridor, where one day soon you might have to reserve parking at Logan Pass or return at another time to hike to Avalanche Lake.

Exploring Canada's Most Accessible Arctic National Park

North of the Arctic Circle, our Twin Otter soars over the Mackenzie Delta’s maze of waterways and patchwork of tundra, darts across the Beaufort Sea and passes over the British Mountains before shaking and shuddering its way down to Sheep Creek International Airport. Well, that’s what the hand-painted sign says at the end of the grassy wilderness landing area. Parks Canada marks the spot as Imniarvik base camp in Ivvavik National Park, a place that just 100 or so people get to see each year in the extreme northwest corner of the Yukon.

Photography In The National Parks: Whiskeytown National Recreation Area

Western landscapes are suffering more than a glancing blow from this year’s wildfires. Many of those fires are encroaching upon National Park System units. Two years ago, a wildfire devastated 97% of the 42,000 acres of Whiskeytown National Recreation Area in California. Thanks to the hard work and dedication of park staff and their partners, most of this park is once again open for recreation, including landscape and bird photography. Before heading home from her Redwood National and State Parks visit, contributing photographer Rebecca Latson took a detour over to Whiskeytown, returning with tips on what you can see and photograph within this recreation area risen from the ashes of the 2018 Carr Fire.

New Name, Same Job: Supporting National Parks In Florida

For the past 21 years, the South Florida National Parks Trust has worked to raise charitable dollars for Biscayne, Dry Tortugas, and Everglades national parks and Big Cypress National Preserve. As the funding increased, so did the Trust's reach. To reflect its work effort and the many individuals and organizations involved in it, the Trust is now The Alliance for Florida's National Parks.