Ashley Whipple is on hands and knees, peering into crevices in a rock cairn at the top of Rocky Mountains National Park. Looking for bright white stains on the stone – which indicate the presence of pika animals and their urine – she climbs up and down, looking. What is she searching for? Scat. Read…
Category: National Park Traveler
National Parks Traveler – Birding In The Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve
A light drizzle created a gray sky when my mom and I hopped out of the car at the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve in Kansas. The flint hills rolled all around us, differing shades of green fading in and out of the distance. Though the prairie used to cover 170 million acres, only 4 percent…
National Parks Traveler – Searching for the Slave Ship Guerrero
Terror echoed across the waves in Florida’s Biscayne Bay. The slave ship Guerrero had just run aground on a nearly invisible reef, unable to move, its splintered hull quickly filling with saltwater. Others heard the cries and attempted a rescue, but so many could not be saved. The disaster remains a testament to both the cruelty of…
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