Take a vacation from your vacation with our list of the week’s best links.
- A year in the life of an Italian tree (Mother Nature Network)
- https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/wilderness-resources/videos/tree-Italy-forest-popular-spot-wildlife
- 191-acre redwood property protected (Peninsula Open Space Trust)
- https://openspacetrust.org/blog/redwood-property/
- PUC students get a lesson in French broom (Napa Register)
- http://napavalleyregister.com/lifestyles/home-and-garden/puc-students-get-a-lesson-in-french-broom/article_9cd488c3-01db-5418-a4c3-1b3ea04a00bb.html
- Doctors are prescribing park visits to boost patient health (Nat Geo News)
- http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/06/parks-prescribes-doctors-health-environment/
- Behind the scenes at Connecticut’s biggest baby bird nursery (Audubon; published summer 2016)
- http://www.audubon.org/magazine/summer-2016/behind-scenes-connecticuts-biggest-baby-bird
- From gravel pit to public access park (Land Trust Alliance)
- http://www.landtrustalliance.org/blog/gravel-gamboling
- Gear libraries empowering youth workers and teachers (Sierra)
- http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/sponsored-content/leki/lending-some-adventure
- [Video] Ice Pyramids Provide Water in High-Altitude Desert (Mashable News)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2d_KGxdKq0
- Amazing lightning photo (US Dept. of Interior Twitter feed)
- https://twitter.com/Interior/status/880575406830649345
- Wolf family sprouts in Lassen National Forest with birth of 3 pups (SF Chronicle)
- http://www.sfchronicle.com/science/article/Wolf-family-sprouts-in-Lassen-National-Forest-11268765.php#photo-13194646