Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

(NEXSTAR) — You may have been on a hike in, say, one of America’s national parks and seen bountiful nature — tall sequoias, dazzling waterfalls, a breathtaking valley of flowers. And then you come ...

Hikers and environmentalists are at each other’s throats on TikTok over rock stacking and whether it’s harmful to local ecosystems. Videos went from poses next to rock cairns to dramatically knocking ...

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. - Attention, Yosemite visitors! If you see a giant pile of rocks stacked on top of one another - also called cairns - anywhere in the park, go on and knock them down.

Are you a rock-stacker? Or are you a rock-stack knocker? The opinion piece, “Stop the Rock-Stacking” on the High Country News website is getting a lot of opinions. Some people get really worked up on ...

Scramble around Maine’s Acadia National Park long enough, and you’ll spot the distinctively stacked rocks amid the bigger granite boulders. Known as the Bates Cairns, they’re like miniature stone ...

Descend the steps down to the sand, pass a rock outcropping, come around the corner and — boom — rock cairns stacked on a sandy stretch of beach. Before king tides and rough surf battered the beach, ...