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Tag: Yosemite
The Flying Pansy
Above the Tropopause: in Search of a High-Altitude Butterfly
Butterfly experts guard their secret spots like fishermen. When a friend takes Liam O’Brien to his “spot,” the writer finds himself in a scene from Nabokov.
Winter Issue 2018
A Newly Discovered Potential Cause of Rockfalls in Yosemite
What role might heat play in causing rocks to fall? Scientists look for an answer.
History
Celebrate Inclusive National Parks with the #AANPE
The African American National Parks Event encourages people to visit their local national parks on the first weekend in June
Stewardship, Wildlife
Log It or Leave It – Post-fire Debate over Burned Trees
As California’s fire season comes to a close, the fires that burned Yosemite and Mt. Diablo have left a landscape of burned trees, logs and soil. What to do next with that land, particularly in Yosemite, is a complicated decision, and politicians, land use managers, and ecologists have differing goals.
