Videos
Video: The Importance of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Almost 10 years ago, in the summer of 2005, I attended an outdoor-writing conference that included a silent auction as part of its activities.
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Nature & Wildlife
Five Recent Gains for Endangered Wildlife Species
There has been a lot of good news for endangered and “missing” wildlife lately, which seems like a breath of fresh air amid all the dire headlines about rapid climate change and environmental degradation.
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News & More
Do National Park Crowds Breed Advocates—or Build Annoyance?
A trip to Denali National Park is a journey into wild America at its best. This six-million-acre landscape is bisected by only one, 92-mile ribbon of road. Travel along it, and you’ll see low-elevation, taiga forest morph into high, alpine tundra. It all culminates in North America’s tallest peak: the 20,310-foot Denali.
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Travel Tales
Great Bear Rain Forest Rambles and Spirit Bear Sightings
Running 250 miles down the British Columbia, Canada, coast, the Great Bear Rain Forest is a wild expanse of western cedars, hemlocks and spruce trees. This 21 million-acre area—whose boundaries have never been precisely defined—is the largest coastal temperate rain forest on Earth.
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Nature & Wildlife
Five Wildlife Reserves & Parks You Shouldn’t Miss
Wildlife reserves offer safe haven to some of the planet’s most vulnerable species and give visitors the opportunity to view them responsibly. Here are five of our favorites: Pacaya Samiria Reserve, Peruvian Amazon Where: The headwaters of the Amazon in northern Peru.
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Nature & Wildlife
WWF Report: 52 Percent of the World’s Biodiversity Is Gone
When the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) released its Living Planet Report 2014 on September 30, it wasn’t the usual doom-and-gloom environmental news story that is forgotten the next day.
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Nature & Wildlife
Unlikely Act of Love in Katmai National Park
Holly, a brown bear in Katmai National Park and Preserve has opened her paws and taken in a new cub, which was abandoned earlier this summer by his own mother. Adopting another cub is incredibly rare among brown bears, says NPR.
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Travel Tales
Grizzly Bear Travels: A Photo Essay
Being close enough to view a grizzly bear in the wild inspires feelings of awe and nostalgia: wonder at their size and power, and a longing for an America that once was—when the land was wild and pristine, and we newcomers were still adventurers exploring something big and far beyond anything else we had…
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Nature & Wildlife
50th Anniversary of the Wilderness Act: the Meaning of Wilderness by 10 American Authors
Tomorrow, September 3, 2014, will mark the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act. In 1964, the bill that created the act passed the Senate by a vote of 73–12 and the House by 373–1.
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News & More
Young People Have Less Money Than Ever Before, So Why Are They Traveling More?
The ages of some of my fellow travelers on a recent trip to Antarctica surprised me.
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Videos
Video of the Week: Arctic Footage Filmed by a Polar Bear!
The U.S. Geological Survey has released a clip of the first video shot from the neck of a polar bear on Arctic sea ice. In April, scientists led by research biologist Anthony Pagano placed cameras on four females roaming Beaufort Sea ice north of Alaska’s Prudhoe Bay.
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Alaska
Video of the Week: Unbelievably Close to Grizzlies in Alaska
Have you heard how close our groups get to the grizzly bears on our Coastal Alaska Grizzly trips? Within mere feet! And it’s not from the window of a safari vehicle, it’s on foot. I didn’t believe it when I first started working at Nat Hab…that is, until I saw video footage of it!