BioBlitz at Saguaro National Park: Bats, Rodents, and New Perspectives
Today’s guest blog was written by Allie Gaither-Banchoff, an eighth-grade student at Paulo Freire Freedom School who took part in the 2011 Saguaro National Park BioBlitz. The BioBlitz was organized by the National Geographic Society and Friends of Saguaro National Park. More than 5,000 students and volunteers combed the park, resulting in the park listing 400 new species. This account [...]
New NPS Video: Spend Three Minutes in the Wilderness
“In wildness is the preservation of the world,” said Henry David Thoreau. Yet relatively little of the world is designated as wildness–at least here in the United States. Since the passage of the Wilderness Act in 1964, nearly 110 million acres of the United States have been designated as wilderness in 757 distinct tracts, from the six-acre Pelican Island Wilderness in Florida to the [...]
New Tools for Vacation-Planning Season
Now that spring is here, for many of us, that means vacation planning! If you’re thinking about a trip to the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, or the Great Smoky Mountains, check out a new tool released last month by Nature Valley called Trail View. Similar to Google Maps, the website allows users to view hiking trails in these three major parks, both from a birds-eye view, and from a 360-degree ”street [...]
Headed to a Park with Your Camera? Read These Tips!
By Scott Kirkwood, Editor-in-Chief of National Parks Magazine Bringing your camera on a park trip? Before you pack your bags, read these tips from the editors of National Parks Magazine, who offer ways to add interest and variety to your photographs. Thousands of people capture the same iconic landscapes and monuments over and over again in their travel pictures—here’s how [...]
The Other Side of the Clouds: Behind the Scenes of NPCA’s Latest Video
By Amy Leinbach Marquis, Associate Editor of National Parks Magazine Last September, I hitched up my Airstream and took off for Yosemite National Park—a three-day drive from my home in Boulder, Colorado. Later that week, a filmmaker named Tucker Walsh would fly out from the East Coast to meet me, and we would spend 10 days producing a short film [...]
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