It didn’t have to be this way. – Oh Alabama, New Orleans and Little Rock too It didn’t have to be this way When a free shot would do. YouTube: Neil Young – Alabama The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – It’s 72 degrees in the city Trump called a swamp.…
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Camping and Cycling Around Catoctin Mountain in Maryland
Secret Vistas – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAIN, Md. — While tens of thousands of people flock to the iconic national parks of the American West in the summer travel season, exacerbating an already disastrous mega-drought and experiencing a record-breaking heat wave and an already out of control wildfire season, there are lesser known…
Americans Flock to Western National Parks in the Middle of a Heat Wave
June Sets Record for Hottest Ever in North America
Finding An Escape From Global Warming in the Mountains of the East
CAMPING EAST – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAIN, Md. — It’s only the first official week of summer and it’s already peaking out at 91 degrees, according to the official forecast in the nation’s capital today. But here, in the campground in the shade, it’s only 83 degrees, according to the New American Journal…
Camping in the Washington, D.C. Area Can Be A Rewarding Challenge
Secret Vistas – By Glynn Wilson – SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK, Va. — The American west is on fire again with wildfires burning in 11 states. Temperatures are setting records with highs in the 120 degree range. A heat dome hovers over the region, and the devastating drought continues unabated. New Orleans and the states along…
Not Exactly a Silent Spring Due to Cicadas, but the Birds Are Dying Again
Scientists Urge People to Stop Feeding the Birds – “Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.” — Albert Schweitzer By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAIN, Md. — In 1962, before President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas, he set up a special…
Camping in the Eastern United States: Planning for Human Survival Here
Secret Vistas – By Glynn Wilson – Abandoning the cities and suburbs for a camper van or other type of Recreational Vehicle in nature is becoming a reality for hundreds of thousands of people, and not just because of the coronavirus pandemic, the changing climate and economy and the movie Nomadland. It doesn’t have to…
President Biden’s Fiscal Year 2022 Budget Proposes Significant Investments in the National Park Service
Staff Report – WASHINGTON — The Biden-Harris administration submitted the President’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2022 to Congress on Friday, and it calls for a new investment of $3.5 billion in the National Park Service to help modernize the parks and park infrastructure. It calls for new investments in conservation efforts, expanding visitor access…
Giving Voice to Americans Living in Nomadland
“I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life…” – Henry David Thoreau Secret Vistas – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAIN, Md. — Thousands of Americans are waking up to the advantages of traveling and immersing themselves in nature and even living full time in Recreational Vehicles, making the transition…
Vaccinated People in DC Dance as CDC Relaxes Coronavirus Mask Requirements
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – An amazing thing happened at the time of our return to the nation’s capitol region in May. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a surprising announcement on Thursday, catching many people by surprise, including those who work in the White House. “If…
Setting the Record Straight: The National Park Service is Not Allowing the Hunting of Black Bears Infected with Mange
Biden Administration Outlines ‘America the Beautiful’ Initiative
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. – In a clean break from the anti-nature politics and policies of the previous administration, the Biden-Harris administration has begun to outline a different vision for how the United States can work collaboratively to conserve and restore public lands, waters and wildlife that in many ways support and sustain the…
The View from Here: Back in Washington, D.C. Just in Time for the Brood X Cicada Invasion
New CIA Report Says We’re All Going to Die: Unless We Save Democracy
Take the Time to Think, Dream and be Happy
“It’s very difficult, in geography as in morality, to understand the world without leaving your own house.” – Voltaire Sunday Reader – A Think Piece – By Glynn Wilson – KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Do you ever just take some time off to simply think? To dream? Experts in psychology say this is critical not only to…
National Park Week Celebrates the Outdoors and American Heritage
Staff Report – The U.S. Department of the Interior announced that National Park Week – an annual weeklong celebration of America’s national parks – will run from April 17 to April 25, a time when the federal government urges the public owners of the parks to explore the vast network of sacred sites, historical landmarks…
Hellscape 2020: Year In Review in Words and Pictures
Alabama Song Writer Grayson Capps on the State of the World and Religion
Sunday Reader – By Glynn Wilson – So I’m following the light, doing what I do, and somehow with assistance from Mother Nature, my Cherokee ancestors and smarter aliens on some exoplanet, I made it back to North Carolina this week from a month-long trip to the Nation’s Capital just long enough to see Donald…
With the Election All But Over, the Coronavirus Rages Out of Control
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – As we broke camp on Sunday feeling victorious about the declaration of Joe Biden as president-elect and drove south on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway into the city, my mind began to wander back to the biggest story of them all, the raging coronavirus. While the Trump administration’s total failure…