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NATIONAL PARKS

Canyonlands Fact Sheet

Location: San Juan, Wayne, Garfield, and Grand counties, Utah, United States Size: 337,598 acres (24th largest National Park) Established: September 12, 1964 (31st National Park established in the U.S.) Overview: Canyonlands National Park preserves a dramatic landscape carved by the Colorado and Green Rivers in ...

Black Canyon of the Gunnison Fact Sheet

Location: Montrose County, Colorado, United States Size: 30,750 acres (56th largest National Park) Established: October 21, 1999 (55th National Park established) Overview:   Several canyons in the American West are longer and some are deeper, but none combine the depth, sheerness, narrowness, darkness, and dread ...

Arches Fact Sheet

Location: Grand County, Utah, U.S. Size: 76,519 acres (44th largest National Park) Established: November 12, 1971 (34th national park established in the U.S. [Note: This site was originally designated as “Arches National Monument” on April 12, 1929 and was later changed to a national park]) ...

What Turned These Ancient Trees to Stone?

What Turned These Ancient Trees to Stone? | Untold Earth

Locked within the stones and fossils of Petrified Forest National Park lies a record of life, death, and resilience during one of Earth's most extreme periods of environmental change. What secrets do these fossilized ecosystems reveal about the prehistoric past, and how can they help ...

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LIVE from Yosemite!

On March 19, 2025 NATURE joined Yosemite park rangers Mirella Piceno and Shelton Johnson, live from inside the park. Viewers were given a tour of the most beautiful and exciting parts of Yosemite and the rangers answered viewer questions about what it's like to work ...

Good Nature: Big Bend: The Wild Frontier of Texas

After each NATURE premiere, we gather online videos we love into a playlist. From our newest film to incredible footage from around the web, here were our favorites. And don't forget, you can always subscribe to our newsletter so you don't miss a thing! In Case ...

Yellowstone Forever | Nature Nation

Each week, we feature a worthy citizen science project or nature news segment from around the world. This week we're looking at Yellowstone's citizen science initiative for the year 2021, Yellowstone Forever. Help the plants and animals of beautiful Yellowstone National Park thrive with a ...

Julian Victor: Wildlife Filmmaker | Black Birders Week

Wildlife filmmaker Julian Victor hails from the urban jungle of Toronto, Canada. He joined the Black AF in STEM community last year, and participated in the first ever Black Birders Week. As #BlackBirdersWeek began trending on social media, Victor said that seeing the movement go ...