Essays
Get started on your national park journey by perusing our extensive archive of essays. Whether you want to be a park ranger, learn more about rangers and parks, or cultivate a wilder life, we have an essay that will help.
Parks
A national park helped a man find solace from his grief, and I was lucky to be his guide. What I learned from him changed how I view parks.
Why we need national park rangers: how losing one of our most popular American icons would diminish our dreams and harm our national parks.
To build a wall in parks--that was the threat the first time Donald Trump was president. Now he is threatening the parks themselves.
Discover national parks that celebrate American Latino heritage, a community whose stories and culture are woven into the fabric of America.
When nature calls: National parks are being overwhelmed with human waste. Here are the reasons why and how not to be a part of the problem.
Asian American and Pacific Islander heritage is celebrated in America's national parks. Here are three such parks, and links to many more.
Wild Living
"You can't climb on her!" a child called out. The forest giants of Bernheim Forest are so realistic they entrance the child in all of us.
Five reasons to be hopeful about climate change--the global outlook for climate action is no longer doom and gloom and here's why.
How to talk to climate change deniers about climate change, including reasons to hope and when to give up and move on.
Asian American and Pacific Islander heritage is celebrated in America's national parks. Here are three such parks, and links to many more.
A written snapshot of a solar eclipse. That day we felt aligned with our earth, with our sky, and all the wonders they both provide.
People are not a plague on the Earth. We are not a disease; we are ill, infected with a sense that we are not natural, that we don't belong.