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“This white poplar tree has been one of my favorites since building our house on this wooded property,” Jessica Nelson...

Montana’s Glacier National Park celebrates its 109th birthday on May 11, 2019. A popular park for landscape, nature and wildlife...

Global Big Day seeks to break records with most bird sightings reported on May 4

While on a cruise to the Panama Canal, Jonathan Ross had an exciting encounter in Puerto Limon, Costa Rica. “We...

Our recent Your Best Photo of 2018 assignment received some beautiful submissions. Here’s a look at the winner and some...

“I lived in Jackson, Wyoming, for five years and skied Jackson Lake and Colter Bay each weekend, gaining knowledge of...

“It had been a pretty dry winter, which isn’t very normal for Maryland,” recalls Jessica Nelson. “In fact, we hadn’t...

“Winters in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, are typically cold, wet and cloudy,” says Connor Stefanison. “To escape the gloomy weather,...

It was brought to our attention by our “Wild By Nature” columnist Melissa Groo that the photograph selected as the...

“I was on the road for a few days, enjoying the landscape and wildlife in my new home, the Northwest...

“In July 2017, I had a fantastic opportunity to spend a week in Lake Clark National Park, Alaska, for an...

“This photo was taken off one of the black sand beaches of Sangeang Island in Indonesia at a dive site...

Volunteer Point is home to the largest concentration of king penguins in the Falkland Islands. During Michael Milicia’s January 2016...

Nineteen-year-old Colorado State University student Zach Rockvam is fortunate to live within an hour’s drive of Rocky Mountain National Park,...

“European hamsters (Cricetus cricetus), sadly, are a threatened species nowadays,” notes Austria-based photographer Henrik Spranz. “They’re much larger than the...

“Lake Mulwala is located on the Murray River near Yarrawonga in Victoria and Mulwala in New South Wales. On a...

This carnivorous sundew plant (Drosera rotundifolia) is one of the subjects of nature photographer Joni Niemelä’s image series called “Drosera.”...

Living close to nature in the country affords one the opportunity to observe the local wildlife from a personal vantage...

“One day at the end of January in Uppsala, Sweden, I took a short trip to an area where I...

As a photographer for Alaska magazine and photo tour guide with Wild Departures, Michelle Theall spends most of her time...