The resulting observations, shared in his new book, “Close to Home: The Wonders of Nature Just Outside Your Door,” justify the sore joints he developed along the way. In short order, he writes, “the ...

Speaking of which – no springtime visit to Spencer would be complete without exploring McCormick’s Creek State Park, Indiana’s first state park established in 1916, when the concept of preserving ...

For those who appreciate nature but aren’t quite ready to rough it completely, Echo Bluff State Park offers the perfect middle ground. As Missouri’s newest state park (opened in 2016), it was designed ...

The Tamaulipan thorn forest once covered 1 million acres on both sides of the US-Mexico border. Restoring even a fraction of it could help the region cope with the ravages of a warming world.