After the deadly Grand Canyon flood, a geologist and avid hiker explains what nature lovers need to prepare and watch for to stay safe.
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The existing plans and commitments to reduce water use don’t add up to even half of the savings that are needed to keep the river flowing.
Being in public parks and natural environments with other visitors is a powerful opportunity to enhance enjoyment rather than detract from it.
Long-standing water-use agreements allocate more water than the river and its basin actually contain, forcing users to cut back and face future shortages as well.
The Biden administration is restoring full protection to three national monuments that President Trump sought to cut down drastically.
It’s hard to preserve national parks “unimpaired,” as US law directs, when they’re overrun with tourists who stray off paths, strew trash and harass wildlife. A parks scholar calls for crowd control.
The Grand Canyon, which marks 100 years as a national park on Feb. 26, 2019, is known today as an iconic natural wonder. But early European visitors weren’t impressed.
What is the best way to conserve US national parks in a climate-altered future? One answer is connecting parks and other public lands, so plants and animals can shift their ranges.
Why do Americans revere the Grand Canyon? It taught us to look at nature in a new way, and to respect iconic places by leaving them alone.
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Emeritus Professor of Life Sciences, Arizona State University
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Director of the Kyl Center for Water Policy, ASU Morrison Institute for Public Policy, Arizona State University
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Assistant Professor of Law, Louisiana State University
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Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Biology and Anthropology, Indiana University
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Professor of Law, University of Colorado Boulder
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Cecil D. Andrus Endowed Chair for Environment and Public Lands and University Distinguished Professor, Boise State University
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Executive Director, American Indian Policy Institute, Arizona State University
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Associate Professor of History, Colorado State University
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Professor of Policy and Practice, UCLA School of Law, University of California, Los Angeles
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Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley
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Professor of Commercial Recreation and Tourism, Penn State
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Associate Professor of Outdoor Recreation and Wildland Management, University of Montana
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Professor of Hydrogeology, University of Tennessee
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Visiting Senior Research Scholar, University of Richmond