PARKS -- The trend has been steady in the past few years -- national parks are attracting more and more visitors in record numbers year after year. Here's the latest report in a series that seems to be paving the way for more quotas and...
HIKING -- The heat wave forecast for this weekend should be the coup de grâce for the ice that's been tenaciously capping the region's high-mountain lakes this season. From the Eagle Cap Wilderness to the Selkirk Mountains of North Idaho, hikers have been exploring lakes…
PUBLIC LANDS -- The comment period has ended on the Trump Administration's mission to review the status of 27 of the 157 national monuments. At the center of the effort is a poke at the Antiquities Act of 1906, a conservation tool signed into law...
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