Tag: Redwood National and State Parks

Upper Yosemite Fall at Yosemite National Park, one of the crown jewels of America’s national park system. Photo by Steven T. Callan.
May 19, 2017

I’ve always believed that our national parks and our national monuments were as secure as Yosemite’s Half Dome: solid as a rock, inviolate, and well-protected…

Elk in Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, part of Redwood National and State Parks
August 30, 2015

The recent killing of Hwange National Park’s beloved icon, Cecil the Lion, has brought to mind a number of outrageous poaching incidents that occurred right…

One of the largest trees on Earth: Old-growth redwood in Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park, California
October 9, 2014

Kathy and I recently attended the Outdoor Writers Association of California (OWAC) fall conference on the aptly-named Wild Rivers Coast. Stretching from Port Orford, Oregon…