Quite randomly, I picked up a pretty magazine laying on my parents’ coffee table on Christmas Eve. The magazine was the inaugural issue of “Parks,” the magazine of the National Park Foundation. What was random was the blurb I read in the magazine announcing their “Share The Experience” photo contest, which was reminiscent of The [...]
I urge you to check out The Nature Conservancy’s first ever photo competition. For those nature photographers out there, this is a cool (and free) contest. For everyone, it’s simply an amazing collection of photos of natural areas all over the globe.
“The Conservancy invites you to enter your stunning nature images in our first-ever digital [...]
I promise that a cool thing or two is in the pipeline (and yes, the next installment of “The Cliffs of Kekekabic” is imminent). Stay tuned. In the meantime, please take a minute to urge Secretary of the Interior Dick Kempthorne to Fix Our Parks by their 100th birthday in 10 years.
America’s national parks are [...]
Wherever I look today, new companies, Web sites, magazine features and television reports are focusing on eco-friendly everything. Be it alternative energy, hybrid vehicles, “offsetting your carbon imprint,” brand name organics, whatever, the strength of environmentalism is growing and I’m happy to see it. The country seems to have finally woken up to the crises [...]
This man is in charge of setting the direction of our public lands for the next three years.
Kempthorne, a former U.S. Senator who decided to run for governor instead a second term in the Senate, has consistently received a zero rating from the League of Conservation Voters—except once, when he soared up to a 6 [...]
Sorry. It’s Friday, but there’s not going to be any fiction on here today. There’s going to be a brief report on the frightening acceleration of global warming. I am normally not a gloom-and-doomer, but even without hardly looking, I have come across far too many frightening reports in the past couple weeks.
The effects of [...]
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