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Magazine Article A Thorny Question Why some saguaros grow more arms than others — and why it matters.
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Magazine Article From Joshua Tree to Canyons of the Ancients An unbroken stretch of protected land would benefit ecosystems, wildlife and cultural landscapes.
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Magazine Article Case Reopened A major school desegregation victory in Colorado was all but forgotten. A century later, it’s getting its due.
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Magazine Article Tunnel Top Triumph How the Presidio of San Francisco got rid of an aging, ugly freeway — and scored new national parkland in the process.
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Magazine Article Blazes and Colors The 1947 fire ravaged Acadia National Park — and transformed the park’s autumnal display.
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Magazine Article A Turnaround at Grand Portage A Native American Tribe and a national park unit find common ground
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Magazine Article 'First, Tell the Truth' Once one of the largest slave markets in the South, Forks of the Road is now part of the National Park System. Is Natchez ready to excavate its troubled past?
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Magazine Article Time Travel An illustrated journey through John Day Fossil Beds National Monument.
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Magazine Article Paradise Found? A century ago, a college student in “cavewoman” attire reportedly braved bears, freezing temperatures and a bearskin-clad suitor in the wilds of Rocky Mountain National Park. Did any of it actually happen?
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Magazine Article To Collect or Not to Collect As higher visitation and climate change increasingly threaten artifacts, can the Park Service afford to leave them in place?
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Magazine Article Lizards on the Lam Florida’s latest invasive species is a 4-foot-long South American lizard with a taste for eggs that threatens the Everglades’ ground-nesting animals.
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Magazine Article Following the Flood How a foot race helps one Pennsylvania town remember a historic tragedy.
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Magazine Article A Hoof Too Far An aggressive stallion from Assateague Island National Seashore gets relocated.
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Magazine Article Naming Right Introducing First Peoples Mountain.
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Magazine Article Ditching Disposables Single-use plastics are no longer welcome in national parks.
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Magazine Article Breaking Ground A visitor center for Stonewall.
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Magazine Article An Alabama Album Images of struggle and persistence at five national park sites.
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Magazine Article Troubled Waters For decades, biologists and anglers stocked national parks with nonnative trout. What will it take to undo the ecological damage?
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Magazine Article Trailing Justice A double murder in Shenandoah and writer Kathryn Miles’ search for the truth.
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Magazine Article Unburying the Past The Blackwell School, a rare remnant of segregation in West Texas, is poised to become the next national park site.
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Magazine Article The Enemy Within For two centuries, feral goats plagued what is now Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park. In the end, controlling them required hunting, fencing and a bit of ungulate espionage.
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Magazine Article Are you Talking to Me? Researchers in Yellowstone recorded a vocal interaction between a wolf and a pair of great horned owls. Are the animals actually communicating?
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Magazine Article Glass Half Full A prominent climate scientist offers the gift of science-backed hope.
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Magazine Article A Retirement for the Ages Ranger Betty Reid Soskin clocks out at 100 years old.
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Magazine Article Censored No More Honoring the Lincoln Memorial’s 100th anniversary with the words that went unsaid.
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Magazine Article Lofty Heights We were young, brown outsiders in the world of outdoor adventure. Climbing Grand Teton marked a turning point.
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Magazine Article Obed Refuge How a backyard national park helped heal a family in transition.
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Magazine Article Full Circle At Bears Ears National Monument, a crew of young men from the Pueblo of Zuni is caring for the cliff dwellings their ancestors built 800 years ago.
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Magazine Article Loss & Legacy On the lives of science luminaries Edward O. Wilson and Thomas E. Lovejoy.
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Magazine Article Turtle Troubles New research from Padre Island National Seashore highlights the toll that ingesting plastic is taking on green sea turtles.
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