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  • Greetings from Shenandoah National Park

    I often go fly fishing at Penn's Creek with my buddies. Here is a picture from the spring of 2016 with a brown trout I caught that day. Penn's Creek has some solid trout, if you're in to fly fishing go check it out.

  • Greetings from Grand Teton National Park

    This is a picture of me at the top of Grand Teton mountain! This took a total of two days (and a lot of effort) to get to the peak which is where this picture is taken. Before this climb, I never really appreciated the national parks in our country…

  • Greetings from Acadia National Park

    In the summer of 2015 I visited Acadia National Park. I felt completely immersed in the wilderness and that I was truly stepping out of my comfort zone. However, after taking and environmental class in college, I realize that the wilderness I thought I was experiencing was completely constructed by…

  • Greetings from Acadia National Park

    Wnen I think of Acadia National Park, I picture in my mind Jordan Pond with the extinct volcanic Bubbles rising from the far shore. Jordan Pond has become for me my very own Walden Pond. I lived along its shores for over three months as a worker at the Jordan…

  • Greetings from Yosemite National Park

    When I was a high school freshman, I, along with other aspiring, enthusiastic young students, went on a field research trip in the backcountry of Yosemite for two weeks. We carried our food, tents, and resources with us, and roamed the wilderness freely and completely away from any semblance of…

  • Greetings from Glacier National Park

    This summer I had the pleasure of attending the Glacier Institute’s Invasive Species Symposium for a week. Everything about the park amazed me, from the breathtaking views of the glaciers and the awe-inspiring mountains to the vast and open realm of unadulterated nature to marvel and delight at. Playing around…

  • Greetings from Independence National Historical Park

    This is how I turned my 9 hour layover into a magical journey back in time on the 100th year birthday of our nation's National Parks! http://tonithetravelwriter.wordpress.com

  • Greetings from Cape Cod National Seashore

    It was our first visit to Cape Cod off season. After hoofing along the sands for an hour or so, I happened to look back at our receding tracks; amazingly, they were as natural as those of the shore birds in that they appeared marvelously wobbly. Beyond Nauset Light blinking…

  • Greetings from Everglades National Park

    The Everglades is located at the very southern tip of Florida and it captured my heart in the 1970s when I visited in the winter. The weather was moderately warm throughout the day and the display of wading birds and alligators was like nothing I had ever seen. In 1979…

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