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Desert View is 25 miles east of Grand Canyon village. The park’s shuttle system does not extend this far, so you will need a car to visit this section. We were on the lackluster van tour I mentioned in my Yavapai post, so having a ride to Desert View was one of the few highlights of that tour.

The main attraction, aside from the Grand Canyon views, is the stone Desert View Watchtower designed by Mary Colter in 1932. This building, like the other Colter buildings in Grand Canyon National Park, is a National Historic Landmark and was designed to blend into its surroundings.

It is a replica of an ancient Puebloan…

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Crater Lake National Park: Happy 117th birthday! — National Parks USA

Welcome back to National Parks & other public lands with T! If you are seeing this on Twitter or Facebook, please visit the blog to see all of the photos and read the story by clicking the link. One hundred seventeen years ago, on May 22, 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt signed the bill establishing Crater […] … Continue reading Crater Lake National Park: Happy 117th birthday! — National Parks USA

Atmospheric CO2 Levels Top 415 Parts Per Million For The First Time In Human History — To the moon and back

In 2015, the world got together and signed the Paris Agreement, pledging to avoid the worst effects of human-caused climate change by limiting warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. Four years on and the UN Secretary-General has warned we are not on track to do so, while the carbon-tracking sensors reveal we broke yet another record… … Continue reading Atmospheric CO2 Levels Top 415 Parts Per Million For The First Time In Human History — To the moon and back

Happy 100th Birthday to the NPCA!

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Trail of the Cedars: The NPCA and allies halted a fracking operation outside Glacier National Park.

One hundred years ago today, on May 19, 1919, the National Parks Association was incorporated. Mather, the National Park Service’s first director, and Yard, a journalist had pushed for an organization independent of the federal agency whose mission was to promote and protect our National Parks.

Gettysburg National Military Park. The NPCA blocked a casino and racetrack from being built on the park’s outskirts on three different occasions.

In its century of existence, the NPA, which is now the National Parks Conservation Association, has grown from a few hundred members to 1.3 million. The organization has been a driving force behind the designation of many NPS sites, including the Everglades. It has protected old growth forests in our parks from being felled, the Grand Canyon from dams and commercial development, Gettysburg from…

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