NATURE (HUMAN AND OTHERWISE) by Kezia Bacon, Correspondent It’s a big year for anniversaries, at least in the realm of land conservation. Massachusetts Audubon celebrated its 100th birthday this year, as did the National Parks Service. 2016 also marks a milestone for The Trustees of Reservations (TTOR), a land trust here in the Bay State […]
A Century of National Parks
NATURE (HUMAN AND OTHERWISE) by Kezia Bacon, Correspondent This summer the National Park Service of the United States celebrated its 100th birthday. A century ago, on August 25, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson signed the act that created a federal bureau within the Department of the Interior to oversee the country’s already-existing 35 national parks and monuments, […]