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#SaveLWCF to protect threatened wilderness gateways like this Sierra Nevada gem

September 13, 2018 | 1 comment

Desolation Wilderness in eastern California is one of the most visited wilderness areas in the country. It’s easy to see why: a big, rugged expanse of sun-baked Sierra granite, twisted pines, and placid mountain lakes, Desolation welcomes hikers, backpackers, and climbers hungry for an escape....

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Four “dark sky” parks perfect for the Perseids

August 7, 2018 | 5 comments

The Perseid meteor shower in mid-August is among the most anticipated astronomical events of the year. During its peak, skywatchers can expect to see 50 or more shooting stars per hour.

Of course, how much of that display you can actually see depends on where you are. For the best chance...

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Earthly miracles: preserving a pilgrimage in New Mexico

March 28, 2018 | 13 comments

The road to the village of Chimayo winds through the foothills of New Mexico’s Sangre de Cristo Mountains. It’s usually a quiet highway, linking this slow-paced village of adobe houses and rickety toolsheds with the city of Santa Fe 30 miles to the south.

But once a year, in the week...

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400 years old, a Connecticut farm still feeds the hungry

March 19, 2018 | 3 comments

Residents of Stonington, Connecticut, fought a long campaign to conserve Coogan Farm—a peaceful, rural property on the banks of the Mystic River. Once the land was successfully protected in 2013,...

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For Honolulu residents, reviving a forgotten spring is a labor of love

February 1, 2018 | 10 comments

He punawai kahe wale ke aloha.
Love is a spring that flows freely.
— Hawaiian proverb

Chris Cramer was finishing another day’s work at the edge of Kanewai Spring when he first heard the sound of water. It...

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Public lands need your help now more than ever. With your help, The Trust for Public Land has saved over 3.6 million acres of public land, and completed more than 5,400 park and community projects across the county.

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A civil rights icon's childhood home brings his past and presence alive

January 12, 2018 | 3 comments

Martin Luther King Jr. was once just a kid—a bright, studious boy, but not too serious to chase his sisters around the backyard of the family home, a tidy Victorian at 501 Auburn Avenue in Atlanta. Before he became a leader of the civil rights movement, he shared a bedroom with his younger...

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The Trust for Public Land Statement on Senate Appropriations Bill

November 21, 2017

We urge the Senate to continue its work and ensure that the Land and Water Conservation Fund is permanently reauthorized.

Our public lands not only make our communities healthier and happier, but are also a driver of economic growth across the country - and today’s action in the U.S. Senate is a big step forward to providing access to public lands for hunters, fishermen, hikers, bikers, birders and all those who love the outdoors.

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Photo of MA‘O Organic Farms

MA'O Organic Farms Palikea Expansion

Almost daily, Hawai'i media lament the lack of food security should a disaster strike, while concurrently discussing a new real estate development project, oftentimes on historical agricultural land. Suitable parcels for agriculture are increasingly difficult to find because of competition from development interests and speculators.

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Paleontologists seek the origins of the modern world in Colorado’s "Cretaceous Park"

October 20, 2017 | 1 comment

Imagine you’re visiting Colorado Springs—not today, but more than 66 million years ago. Instead of the high, arid plain you’ll find there now, you’d walk beneath the dark canopy of a rainforest, among giant ferns and big rivers charging off the slopes of the brand-new Rocky Mountains. You might...

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