Biden Promises Protections for Nevada’s Spirit Mountain
WASHINGTON — President Biden pledged Wednesday that he would preserve the Spirit Mountain area in southern Nevada, which contains some of the most biologically diverse and culturally significant lands in the Mojave Desert. “I’m committed to protecting this sacred place…
El turismo del fin de los tiempos
Así es como me lo han explicado los científicos del parque: cuando los glaciares de marea, como los de la Bahía de los Glaciares, están sanos, avanzan lentamente durante siglos hacia el mar, empujando de frente un escudo formado por…
End-Times Tourism in the Land of Glaciers
The rangers confirmed what I was hearing from my fellow passengers: Uncertainty, if not grief, is now part of the Alaska traveler’s experience. Most visitors, the rangers told me, still ask the questions they always have: Does the bay freeze…
Expedition Finds Cameras Left by Yukon Mountaineers in 1937
The explorers Bradford Washburn and Robert Bates traveled to the remote Yukon wilderness in 1937 to climb Mount Lucania, but the month of bad weather that preceded their trip had left the Walsh glacier, the starting point of their expedition,…
The Case Against Commercial Logging in Wildfire-Prone Forests
When the Oak fire swept through more than 10,000 acres southwest of Yosemite National Park last weekend, it burned through forests where widespread logging, including commercial thinning, accelerated in recent decades. Much of the forest canopy had been removed, exposing…
Firefighters Use Sprinklers to Save Giant Sequoias in Yosemite
In a 15-month period between 2020 and 2021, an estimated 13 to 19 percent of the world’s population of sequoia trees were killed or mortally wounded, according to a report by the National Park Service. The number is especially staggering,…
Killing what saves us
SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — What if the very thing we need to cope with the enormity of the climate crisis is itself threatened by the climate crisis? This was the jarring question that went through my mind as I…
Yellowstone to Weigh Climate Change Risks When Rebuilding From Flood
HELENA, Mont. — In the shadow of hills and rock walls, the north entrance road at Yellowstone National Park normally traces the river, ferrying visitors from the outside world to a very different one teeming with wildlife and otherworldly geothermal…
How #Vanlifers Are Adjusting to Rising Gas Prices
Britt Ruggiero and Justin Giuffrida bought a 2002 Bluebird school bus in February 2021, with plans to convert it into a 30-foot home on wheels. At the time, diesel fuel prices in their home state of Colorado were averaging around…
Has Climate Change Cut Us Off From the Wilderness in California?
Firefighters have resorted to skirting giant sequoias with foil, including the 2,000-year-old General Sherman tree, which stands less than a mile off the park’s main entrance road, down a paved path. It’s the top draw for the roughly 1.2 million…
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