Your Summer Travel Questions, Answered: Women Who Travel Podcast Lale Arikoglu, Meredith Carey
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In January, our frequently asked questions episode saw us edging back into the world of travel and with this week s episode, we re actually starting to plan those trips we ve been dreaming about for this summer and into 2022. Joined by associate editor Megan Spurrell and transportation editor, Jessica Puckett, we re answering your questions about the outdoorsy domestic destinations to visit right now, the countries open to vaccinated travelers this summer, and where to reunite with your extended family after what has been more than a year apart for many. Plus, we chat about navigating the visa process for traveling long-term as a digital nomad.
The bill, which builds on legislation written by Rep. Judy Chu
The monument was one of 24 covered by a 2017 executive order by then-President Trump
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“There was an attempt to undo [the monument] under the Trump administration. We couldn’t let that be taken away,” Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda Solis (D) said at a news conference Monday announcing the bill, according to the San Gabriel Valley Tribune.
In addition to expanding the monument, the bill would protect 245,000 acres on the state’s central coast and another 317,000 in Del Norte, Humboldt, Mendocino and Trinity counties. Overall, the bill provides for nearly 600,000 acres of new wilderness, according to Padilla’s office.
A view of the night sky from the Antelope Canyon, Page, Arizona. Photo: Ameer Basheer/Unsplash
Americans invented the idea of national parks. They sing of amber waves of grain and sublime purple mountain majesties. They’ve made the Grand Canyon, Yosemite and Yellowstone shrines of national identity and idealise nature in speeches, literature, painting, photography and architecture.
And yet American lands today are torn by conflicts over science, religion, identity and politics, with contradictory conceptions of nature at the heart of a broken national consensus.
To Native Americans, nature and culture are inseparable, and the identity and the history of a tribe is thoroughly interwoven with specific places, such as Rainbow Bridge or the San Francisco Peaks. In contrast, many White Americans embrace wilderness, defined as nature that is free of human presence, with no roads, telephone lines or electricity. The wilderness is, to them, eternal and pre-human, an idea at odds with b
The Biden Administration Is Fulfilling Its Conservation Promises in the First 100 Days
April 30, 2021, 4:00 am
With the passage of a massive economic rescue bill, more than 200 million vaccines distributed, a historically diverse Cabinet in place, and a pledge to cut carbon emissions upward of 50 percent, it’s clear that the Biden administration has wasted no time during its first 100 days. As part of its effort to take a whole-of-government approach to solving the overlapping health, economic, racial justice, and climate crises, the administration has also been rapidly fulfilling its conservation commitments to the American public.
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Primarily via the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), President Joe Biden has made strides in ambitiously conserving land and water, prioritizing tribal consultation, combating climate change, listening to scientists, and making the transition to clean energy. These bold investments in the conservation and restoration of America’s natu