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Earth Day’s 50th Anniversary: An Encounter with its Founder
“There was a special adventure to being a young boy in northwestern Wisconsin. There was the adventure of exploring a deep green pine forest, crunching noisily through the crisp leaves and pine needles on
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Put Your Fears on Ice, and Travel to the Cold Places
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
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Learning from Libby Lightning in Yosemite National Park
[NOTE: Nat Hab is thrilled to announce that Candice has won the Outdoor Writers Association of America (OWAA) Excellence in Craft award for this post in the blog category of “outdoor fun and adventure.” This is
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Creating a New National Park: Possible or Pipe Dream?
Today, in the current political climate, with national parks falling into disrepair because of budget cuts and parks and monuments threatened with downsizing, I was astonished to learn about a newly proposed national park.
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Videos: Whooping Cranes and a Bold Experiment
In 1942, there were only 22 whooping cranes left alive in the world. Their habitats were vanishing, and they had been hunted almost to extinction. If we were to keep them from blinking out,
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Videos: White Deer, the Ghosts of the Forest
Throughout history, people have been fascinated by wild animals that are all white. True to tradition, in Wisconsin, where I live, residents have a special affinity for and pride in the albino white-tailed deer
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White, Wild Animals and Why Difference Shouldn’t Be Wrong
A framed photo that hung on a wall of my grandfather’s large dining room is one of my earliest memories. Sepia-toned, it depicted a herd of deer, taken in Wisconsin’s Northwoods, near Boulder Junction.
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Rushing into a World without Gray Wolves or Grizzly Bears
Grizzly bears and wolves. Other than bison, does America have any mammals more representative of our nation? Unfortunately for them, grizzly bears and wolves are predators, and that sets them apart from bison. It
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