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  • Greetings from Gates Of The Arctic National Park & Preserve

    Beginning in the early 1970s, I became involved in efforts to set aside a part of the Brooks Range in Alaska as a new national park. I spent years exploring this wonderful wilderness by foot, dog team, floating and by light aircraft. I wanted to be a part of the…

  • Greetings from Grand Canyon National Park

    Deep within the spruce and fir, I make my camp along the North Rim, but before I eat supper, I walk over to the nighttime edge of the Grand Canyon to peer three or four thousand feet down to see a tiny flickering campfire way below that lures me down…

  • Greetings from Yellowstone National Park

    To celebrate the 100 years, I just got done spending 21 days in Yellowstone on a biking/hiking adventure. Would your magazine be interested in a 3,125 word feature story?

  • Greetings from Shenandoah National Park

    In June 2015 my wife and I celebrated our 30th wedding anniversary. After much discussion on where to go for this monumental occasion, we decided to celebrate in Shenandoah National Park. My wife first camped here and climbed Old Rag Mtn. while in college on the east coast. I brought…

  • Greetings from Great Smoky Mountains National Park

    Our Nation's National Parks "make you act like a kid again"! They are wondrous places; complex and fragile. When they are gone, they are gone. And for those of us senior citizens, that is not as big of an issue as it will be for our grandchildren and theirs. We…

  • Greetings from Navajo National Monument

    We skip down to Tsegi Canyon through pine and fir lit in sunlight until we cross Laguna Creek and then up Keet Seel Canyon with its chocolate-brown stream that we cross and re-cross fifty times or more following the trail until we come to a bright white waterfall tumbling down…

  • Greetings from Yellowstone National Park

    I worked at Fishing Bridge in Yellowstone in 1967 cleaning cabins, avoiding bears and moose. The interesting people, the astounding natural wonders and experiences still linger with me today. The night of the grizzlies happened that summer, Reagan came through as governor of California, the hippies were in San Francisco.…

  • Greetings from Grand Teton National Park

    In 1993, I returned to Ohio after living in Colorado for 10 years – my Dad got cancer and 1300 miles was just too far away. I took the scenic route; driving for several months and thousands of miles – as far north as the Arctic Circle in Alaska and…

  • Greetings from Grand Canyon National Park

    A few years ago, I came face to face with the sublime in the Grand Canyon. I was on an 8-day rafting down the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. The river encircled the terra cotta colored walls like an emerald serpent. I spent time sitting in the “tea room”…

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