Travel Tips
Like many of you, I suspect, I worry a lot about environmental issues: diminishing biodiversity, climate change, greenhouse gases and melting glaciers. Yet, about once a year, I book a flight.
Videos
Bears, lynx, wolves and wildcats used to roam the lands that today make up Great Britain. European brown bears, however, have been extinct there since at least the early Middle Ages—and possibly even earlier. British lynx disappeared around 700 A.D., due to hunting and habitat destruction. And by the turn of the 16th century, wolves were extinct in England and Wales.
African Safaris
Namibia is otherworldly, a land of endless dunes and rare desert-adapted wildlife. Many long to travel to this remote region, and with good reason. Brad Josephs is a seasoned Expedition Leader and photography instructor with Natural Habitat Adventures.
Travel Tips
A small ice rink, created by flooding a flat piece of ground in front of the elementary school that was just two blocks from my home when I was a child, never failed to lure me outside on cold, Wisconsin winter nights.
Travel Tales
Where will your travels take you in 2020? It’s probably one of the most pleasant questions to ponder. I hope that you’ll go to places both far and near. Wherever you’re going, you’re sure to make some amazing memories. But as every traveler knows, memory can be—what I like to describe as—“fluid.”
Antarctica & Arctic
The Earth’s poles have a special kind of pull on me—sometimes called the “ice blink”—and that’s why on this Christmas Eve, I’m thinking of them.
Travel Tips
It’s the most wonderful time of the year. It’s the most stressful time of the year. No matter where you tend to fall on that spectrum during the week preceding the end-of-the-year holidays, almost all of us hope for a quiet and peaceful season. But how do you go about achieving that silence?
Nature Photography
While there are higher mountains in North America, perhaps none are more dramatic than those in the Teton Range. Grand Teton Mountain rises almost 7,000 feet straight up from the Jackson Hole Valley, with no foothills to impede the views of its rocky slopes and spectacular, often snowcapped peak.
Videos
Proud, powerful and the national symbol of the United States, bald eagles are birds of prey that are extremely territorial during nesting season but highly social at other times.
Nature & Wildlife
One of the many things I like about birds is that they are wildlife that is easily accessible no matter where you live.
U.S. National Parks
I’m not a big fan of experiencing high places, as most of you who follow this column know! But I do love being in the outdoors in natural places, especially in our national parks, so I appreciate the ability to carry out such a feat vicariously—and virtually.
Videos
Next Monday, April 22, 2019, the world will mark its 49th Earth Day. The first Earth Day, held on April 22, 1970, was inspired by Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson, who modeled it on the antiwar protests of the late 1960s. The original Earth Day began on university campuses as a national “teach-in” on environmental issues.
