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Everyone wants to get in on the purple mountain majesty of RMNP—but most of them don't know to do these hikes instead of the other ones.

View Comments The Detroit area is taking another small step toward normalcy this month with the reopening of six campgrounds around the popular reservoir east of Salem that burned in last September's Labor Day fires.  The largest campground in the area, Detroit Lake State Park, reopened last month. The Forest Service has added to the overnight options by gradually reopening its collection of smaller sites around the lake and on the upper North Santiam River including:  Santiam Flats Campground, on the southeast side of Detroit Lake, open now  Cove Creek Campground, on the south side of ...

  The famous Blue Ridge Mountains as seen from Big Meadows on Skyline Drive. On April 23, one day after Earth Day, we arrived at Big Meadows on Skyline Drive, part of the Shenandoah National Park. Climate change is a research priority for the U.S. Department of the Interior’s National Park Service (NPS), which manages all the national parks. Research partners from Interior’s U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) are studying how the seasonal timing of natural events is shifting due to climate change. The NPS  website informs us about ongoing work to monitor and study conditions in the park. Th...

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National Park Nature Walks: A New Pop-Up Podcast Series AUTHOR Jacob Job Jacob Job a conservationist, scientist, science communicator, and field recordist looking to take conservation efforts to the next level by engaging the public on issues related to biodiversity, sustainability, and land conservation/preservation using natural sounds recordings, education, and stewardship. He is a member of the Sound and Light Ecology Team at Colorado State Unversity. Welcome to National Park Nature Walks, a pop-up podcast. Host Jacob Job, an ecologist and audiophile, brings you inches away from a multit...