Conservation
We’re Losing Wilderness. And It’s A Loss to Science.
Today, it’s not only animal and plant species that we’re losing at an alarming rate. We’re losing wilderness; everywhere, all over the world.
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Videos
Video: Bison Return to Wyoming’s Wind River Reservation
Bison, our national mammal, have returned to more of their homeland. On November 3, 2016, 10 bison were released on the 2.2-million-acre Wind River Reservation in Wyoming. The last wild buffalo to be seen there was in 1885, 131 years ago.
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News & More
Plants and People: Moving to Antarctica for Good—or Bad?
With our warming climate, some plants are managing to hitch a ride to Antarctica. Will they colonize and thereby change the continent?
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Conservation
Recreation vs. Conservation in National Parks: Will Enjoyment Equal Support?
When President Woodrow Wilson signed the act creating the National Park Service on August 25, 1916, I doubt he anticipated that one of the statute’s words would cause a lot of controversy 100 years later.
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Conservation
Protected Areas Bring in $600 Billion, So Why Cut Funds?
Across the United States, more than 715 million acres of wild lands in thousands of holdings are protected, thanks to measures such as the Wilderness Act of 1964.
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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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Conservation
Why Wilderness Matters: The Wilderness Act Turns 50
An experience of the world’s vanishing wild places is the heart of what we offer at Natural Habitat Adventures.