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Photo of the Day: Mountaintop Marmots

9/7/2012 // Rachel Stemen

Olympic marmots at the summit of Hurricane Ridge in Olympic National Park   Photo by Flickr member Cherished Light Photography | Rajan Desai See more of Cherished Light Photography’s photos on Flickr >> Your Photo Could Be Here We want… Read more >

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A Pika Running Over my Foot, Misguided Frog Mating, and Other Lurid Tales from a Hike in Yosemite

7/23/2011 // Beth Pratt

“Bully!” as Teddy Roosevelt would have exclaimed, seems the most appropriate way to describe my perfect day hiking in Yosemite National Park last week. I wandered for an afternoon in the Gaylor Lakes basin (Tioga Country is my favorite place… Read more >

Computer Software to Help Save Endangered Animals

3/17/2008 // NWF

A guest post by Mahesh Basantani, a research scholar in Botany who also writes for Inabitat, a green design blog. Species extinction is a natural phenomenon with one to five species going extinct each year. But, presently this rate has… Read more >