Photo credit: Jeff Lovett via Google Maps More than a century after a generous land donation helped create Buttermilk Falls State Park, a small but important piece of its neighboring landscape is bein...
A woman who used her grandmother’s inheritance to buy a piece of land on Lasqueti Island 45 years ago has helped create a large, connected conservation area in Canada’s Salish Sea. Domena Diesin...
Deep in the heart of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, where mist clings to the ridges and the forest hums with life, stands a quiet log cabin. It is the home of the Walker sisters, six unmarried w...
Vietnam veteran Kenneth Deardorff arrived in Alaska in 1974 with a geography degree and plans to find work with the US Geological Survey or another employer. Instead, the California native became fasc...
Homestead soddy in Box Butte County. Source: History Nebraska – Nebraska.gov In 1870, Robert Ball Anderson, a former slave and Union Army veteran, filed a claim for a 160-acre homestead in Butle...