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Tracking Proposed Monument Reductions

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Field Trip to a Dam Under Repair

Visiting Oroville Dam, the largest earthen dam in the country and the site of a near-disaster in February.

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Finding innovative ways to couple preservation with outreach is one of the joys of working at Yellowstone.

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Seeing is Believing: Stanford Researchers Visualize California’s Drought

Sep 15 2017 | Stanford News Service | Research Notes

A new web portal puts four years of California drought data into an interactive format, showing where regions met or missed water conservation goals. The idea is to motivate awareness and conservation.