We"re celebrating the 77th birthday of Big Bend National Park, the place the National Park Service calls "one of the last remaining wild corners of the United States." To get here, you have to be committed. This rugged terrain, which covers almost a million acres, is one of the most remote spots in the country—it"s hours from the nearest towns or the closest airport, making it one of the least-visited national parks in the country. Those who do make the effort to get to Big Bend are rewarded with an undeveloped natural beauty, and silence, two things that seem to be in short supply these days.
In Texas, even the riverbend is big
Today in History
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Celebrating Helsinki’s birthday at the Kiasma Museum
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A big birthday for Big Bend
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Big sky at Big Bend
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Big Bend National Park turns 78
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Big Bend National Parks birthday
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Big Bend National Park anniversary
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Big Bend National Park in Texas turns 81
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European bee-eater, Sierra de Grazalema Natural Park, Cádiz, Spain
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Giants of the avian world
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Put your flippers in the air…
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A duckling swimming in a water meadow, Suffolk, England
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Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah
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Cool water in the Quinault
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Great Backyard Bird Count
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Northern gannets, Shetland Islands, Scotland
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It’s not a pinecone, it’s a pangolin
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By the light of the fireflies
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Look to the north sky tonight for the Perseids
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Did it see its shadow?
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Cecropia leaf and lobster claw petals in Mexico
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White Sands National Park, New Mexico
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Sami lavvu structures, Finnmark, Norway
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A universe underground
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Plum blossoms in China
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The Door County Coastal Byway in Wisconsin
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Whitehaven Beach, Whitsunday Island, Australia
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Infant Sumatran orangutan, Indonesia
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D-Day remembered
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Great wildebeest migration at Mara River, Kenya
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An enduring vision
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Busy building wetlands
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Saint Nicholas Day in Verbier, Switzerland
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Hang Sơn Đoòng Cave, Vietnam
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Why, aloe there
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The aftermath of a meteorite
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Point Reyes National Seashore, California
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Mercury in retrograde
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Kalalau Beach on the Nā Pali Coast, Kauai, Hawaii
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