The Columbia Glacier is about 54 kilometers long, 5 kilometers wide and more than 1,000 meters thick in some places.
Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes National Wildlife Refuge created on California’s Central Coast
The new refuge is part of the Hopper Mountain National Wildlife Refuge Complex in Ventura, Calif.
Colorado’s Great Sand Dunes becomes national park
The dunes, in the San Luis Valley of south-central Colorado, are among the most biologically significant areas in Colorado, where 700-foot-high dunes rise against the backdrop of the rugged Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
Hawaii’s Ala Kahakai Trail protected; Hawaii Volcanoes National Park expansion guidelines outlined
The Ala Kahakai National Historic Trail Act designates the 175-mile footpath as a National Historic Trail, and directs the U.S. Secretary of the Interior to administer the trail and encourage communities, adjacent landowners and native Hawaiians to participate in the trail’s maintenance and development.
Visitors strip Pacific Grove’s Great Tide Pool of precious marine life II
Under-supervised school groups visiting the tide pools can sometimes digress into a crew of inadvertent poachers.
Visitors strip Pacific Grove’s Great Tide Pool of precious marine life
Point Pinos, also known as the Great Tide Pool, is one of the richest tide pool habitats in the world. It was from these tide pools that the famous Doc Ricketts of John Steinbeck fame fed his formaldehyde-filled jars in the early days of marine science.
Water conservation or pipeline in southwest Utah?
The study concluded that Washington County can accommodate projected water use needs for the next 50 years using water conservation measures, and a proposed pipeline from Lake Powell to Washington County is not needed.