parks
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The key to a more equitable outdoors? Democracy.
"A park is more than just a physical place to build relationships. It’s a community tool to amplify people’s voices."
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An old railroad in Queens could become the coolest park in NYC
The only thing holding up the project: that little matter of the price tag.
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Ultimate Yosemite video took 30 photographers to make
We have seen some great videos of Yosemite in our time. But let us tell you -- this is the Yosemite video to beat all Yosemite videos.
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9-year-old’s lemonade stand raises over $3,000 for Detroit parks
Due to Detroit's budget gap, the park in Joshua Smith's neighborhood was full of tall grass and trash. Instead of moping and watching TV, the 9-year-old took matters into his own hands.
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New York City shuts down home-brewed community park
The lot at Woodhull and Columbia Streets had sat vacant for 35 years. Around the corner, in Brooklyn’s Carroll Gardens, the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel pours into the Gowanus Expressway. The lot was a mess, a trash bin for the remnants of drug use and a home for rats. Lou Formisano decided to do something about […]
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These weed-eating goats make more money than you
Staten Island’s Freshkills Park, a former landfill that’s being transformed into a public parkland and “laboratory for green practices,” is engaging in job creation — for goats. Twenty Anglo-Nubian goats are nibbling away at invasive weeds called phragmites, as one step of the wetlands restoration process that will turn Freshkills less killy and more fresh. […]
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Ithaca mayor turns his personal parking space into a mini-park
The 25-year-old mayor gave up his car to join the 15 percent of his city's residents who walk to work.
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World’s oldest trees face country’s worst smog
Sequoia National Park can lay claim to two superlatives — its redwoods are the oldest single organisms on the planet and its air quality is the worst of any national park in the country. The smog pollution in the park is so bad that levels reach L.A.-worthy heights. The park might seem like it’s in […]
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Tree poachers steal 800-year-old red cedar
A decade ago, British Columbia had 40 full-time park rangers who monitored 1,000 parks. Today, it only has 10. And they don’t often make it out to faraway parks like the Carmanah-Walbran Provincial Park, which is on the southern end of Vancouver Island. With no one around regularly, it must have been easy for poachers […]