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Features

The View From Above
Photographer George Masa isn’t as well known as Ansel Adams, but his lens helped establish Great Smoky Mountains National Park 75 years ago.

The Listener’s Yosemite
If Yosemite National Park signifies our country’s most iconic natural landscape, then Olympic National Park may represent its quietest place—but for how much longer?

Cities of Stone
Experience the Southwest’s oldest cultures and landscapes.

Trail Mix

New legislation helps the Park Service tell America’s stories, a mysterious disease threatens America’s bats, new protections for fossils, and an interview with NPCA’s climate guru.

A new trail in the Northwest (print edition only)

Rare & Endangered

A Chorus of Controversy
Yellowstone’s boreal chorus frog

Park Mysteries

Desert Secrets (print edition only)
How do desert plants survive in such a harsh climate?

Reflections

Good Morning, Mr. Adams
A young man spends the summer of 1943 in Yosemite, and gets a course in photography that he’ll never forget.

Historic Highlights

The Standoff
San Juan Island National Historical Park, Washington

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