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Happy Star Wars day, y’all. You don’t need to leave Earth to see the Galaxy.

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Live long and prosper. 🖖
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“National parks and reserves are an integral aspect of intelligent use of natural resources. It is the course of wisdom to set aside an ample portion of our natural resources as national parks and reserves, thus ensuring that future generations may know the majesty of the earth as we know it today.” - John F. Kennedy

We should be conscious of our beautiful, our fragile, our threatened, our exquisite, our life-giving planet every day, not just .

But today, Earth Day, is the day to commemorate our united cause in honoring and celebrating our beautiful planet and the National Parks that preserve the most superlative parts of our home. Happy Earth Day.
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Thanks to for this amazing shot of Yosemite putting on an all encompassing show for us.
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Yosemite got some snow and clouds this weekend and the result could not be more picture perfect. Thanks for the great shots .solofoto
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When Yosemite is feeling Moody! 📸

Best type of conditions in my personal opinion, more so for photography lol

Happy Monday everyone 🙌

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Journalism, activism, suffrage, and conservation define what we remember about Marjory Stoneman Douglas. Born on this day in 1890, Douglas’ role in defending The Everglades make her one of Miami’s most inspiring figures to all that give thanks for the preservation of what Douglas called “The River of Grass”.

Douglas wrote tirelessly for The Miami Herald calling for social reform as Miami boomed and busted in the 1920s and 30s, but it wasn’t until 1947 and the publication of “The Everglades: River of Grass” that one could argue that Stoneman Douglas had found her true calling. Her book was a meticulously researched human and ecological history of the Greater Everglades Ecosystem, and more importantly, it was a call to action to safeguard the region from development. Douglas espoused that “there are no other Everglades in the world”, which has become the defining rehtoric of the book, and it is true; there is no other ecosystem like this on our planet.

Today, the conservation and preservation and restoration of the Everglades is well underway. Stoneman Douglas famously said that “conservation was a dead word” in Miami, adding that “you can’t conserve what you don’t have”. Thankfully, we still have the Everglades and for a time, we had Marjory Stoneman Douglas to call for the safeguarding of what is one of the world’s most precious places. Happy birthday and thank you, Marjory Stoneman Douglas.
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Humanity is on its way back to the moon this week, but you don’t need to leave the earth to see the cosmos. What’s your favorite national park for stargazing? Where on earth have you been to the moon?

Sunbeams and splashing water in Zion. What could be better?
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Thanks to .shoots for the amazing shot.
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Have you ever hiked through the narrows at Zion? Such a cool experience!
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Is this the Instagram equivalent of wearing green on Saint Patrick’s Day?

Good light on the Badlands of South Dakota. Thanks to for the fantastic shot.
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Sunrise at the yellow mounds of Badlands National Park in South Dakota.

On , we’re thinking of Marjory Stoneman Douglass and her contributions to preserving and protecting - The River of Grass. Marjory Stoneman Douglass is one of the few women widely known to have lead the charge for protecting a landscape and given that Everglades National Park was first protected by women’s clubs and organizations as they strove to protect Royal Palm State Park (now where Anhinga Trail is) the history of women protecting unique landscapes is rich and diverse, just as the Everglades is. Fighting for nature comes from every corner of humanity. And it always will.


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It’s the biggest of them all! 153 years ago, today, Yellowstone became the world’s first National Park and ‘America’s Best Idea’ was born. Happy anniversary, old friend. Our thanks to for this wonderful shot.
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It’s firefall season in Yosemite! We can’t wait to see the shots you get! Be sure to tag !
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Thanks to for the fire 🔥 shot!
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This week seems like a good week to get back out to Yosemite 😉.

Yosemite is on Western Sierra and Miwok Land.