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Environmental advocates can sometimes be heard to say “Make Earth Day everyday”. Well, we are going to heed their call and continue highlighting National Park areas that examine the glories of conservation, preservation, and sustainability. Today we move across the country from California’s Muir Woods to another park that boasts oversized trees: South Carolina’s Congaree [...]

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Happy Earth Day week! In honor of wonderful planet Earth we are going to highlight National Park areas this week that examine the glories of conservation, preservation, and sustainability. There’s one man that immediately springs to mind when those topics are mentioned: environmentalist pioneer John Muir. It also just so happens that Monday was even [...]

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Richland County, S.C. Visited: October 21, 2005 NPS Site Visited: 266 of 353 NPS Website WHAT IS IT? Home to North America’s largest, at 22,000 acres, intact floodplain forest. What that means is a great diversity of tall trees, a swamp-like feel, lots of birds and even more mosquitoes. BEAUTY (6/10) Trees of all types [...]

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southern Florida Visited: January 2, 2005 NPS Site Visited: 132 of 353 NPS Website; Local Website WHAT IS IT? 729,000 acres consisting primarily of cypress forests. This large expanse of land serves as a watershed to the Everglades National Park, Big Cypress N PRES’ neighbor to the south. BEAUTY (7/10) The wild beauty of lurking [...]

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