Good Nature Travel Blog

  • Conservation

    Forever Killing Wolves

    Oct 4, 2016 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    This is the dirty fact I’ve come to recognize: we humans won’t allow wolves to live on our planet. We won’t stop until the last one of them is gone. If you don’t believe me, look at what’s happening in our own country. Then, look around the world.

  • Conservation

    12 Conservation Success Stories of 2015

    Dec 29, 2015 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    Last night, I watched a movie titled Merchants of Doubt. In this 2014 film, director and producer Robert Kenner lets us in on a secret that’s hiding in plain sight: there is a small—but highly paid—group of charismatic, silver-tongued “pundits” who present themselves in the media as scientific authorities, even though they have few credentials.

  • News & More

    Do National Park Crowds Breed Advocates—or Build Annoyance?

    Feb 10, 2015 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    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.

  • News & More

    Change of Name: Should “Mount McKinley” Become “Denali”?

    Jul 3, 2012 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    Nature surrounds us with an amazing variety of animals, insects, birds, plants and topographic features. To refer to and distinguish the entities in this bounty, we assign them names—often two: one for common use and one, a two-parter, for scientific identification. Usually, the person credited with discovering or finding something new gets naming rights.

  • Travel Tales

    Do Adventure Movies Inspire Risk-Taking?

    Mar 13, 2012 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    Ever since the explorers of old used oral storytelling, flyers and published journals to spread word of streets lined with gold, fountains of youth or rich silks and spices, people have been using mass media to motivate others to go on adventures.