Parks

National, state, and local parks, as well as forests, wildlife preserves, national recreation areas, and museums: there are so many special places around the world worth exploring and protecting. Learn more about them and the people who care for them.

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The Trump Administration has announced plans to dismantle the US Forest Service. Here’s why that should matter to national park supporters.

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Those of us who support national parks say that we are protecting them, but I often think that they are doing just as much to protect us. 

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Times are hard for America's national park rangers; they've been hard for years. So what made that job worthwhile for me, even in hard times?

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Rights are not won and then forever granted. Every generation will have to fight for its rights anew. That work is a gift, not a burden.

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The US Secretary of the Interior recently ordered more federal lands to be opened for hunting. Here's why hunting would harm national parks.

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The Trump Administration removed an exhibit about slavery from a national park site. The public outrage should inspire all of us to hope.

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In the last year, America’s public lands have been under attack from the Trump Administration, but now finally some good news.

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Both American democracy and America's national parks have received catastrophic wounds this past year. Can they heal?

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America’s public lands have the popularity President Trump wishes he had. Here are five ways they are more popular than him and his policies.

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National park rangers keep the records of our heritage. To lose their knowledge is to forget who we are and where we have been.

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When we don’t understand history, we are destined to repeat it. This is a reality we are seeing play out right in front of our eyes.

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The Trump Administration wants to steal public lands. They mistreat federal workers who protect those lands with one goal: to make them quit.