To kick off National Park Week, which starts today, we"re turning our lens on Vernal Fall in California"s Yosemite National Park. This time of year, the waterfall flows in a torrent, but by late summer it can be reduced to a trickle of small streams slipping over the edge. Most years, Vernal Fall is at full power by May, as the spring thaw in the mountains melts the snowpack, turning the falls into a raging tumble of water spilling to the valley floor where the Merced River flows.
National Park Week begins
Today in History
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Friendship Day in the City of Brotherly Love
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Into the woods
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World Wildlife Day
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A long winter’s nap, perhaps?
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World Reef Awareness Day
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National Take a Hike Day
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Fiesta at Siesta
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Tigh Mor Trossachs on Loch Achray, Scotland
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A bird of beauty
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Great horned owl near Lake Tohopekaliga, Florida
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Martin Luther King Day
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Mada in Saleh, Saudi Arabia
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Hidden beauty in Thailand
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Maybe we should be looking up
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Wind Cave National Park celebrates 120 years
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Irohazaka road
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Ponta Delgada
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Sharp-dressed bug
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Jaguar in the Pantanal wetlands
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Bear watching in the Finnish forest
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It’s Canada’s national day
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Let us introduce you…
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Combating extinction with citizen science
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Why do elephants hide in trees?
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Take the Stairs Day
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Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah
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Chapada dos Veadeiros National Park shines
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Where is this gorgeous peak?
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White trilliums blooming in Ontario, Canada
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A grand event