“There is nothing so American as our national parks”*…
Oh so many more– Yellowstone, Joshua Tree, Yosemite, Death Valley, to name a few– at “I Can’t Stop Reading One-Star Yelp Reviews of National Parks.”
[image above: Greg Heartsfield/Flickr
* Franklin D. Roosevelt
As we as we rethink the first “R” in “R and R,” we might spare a thought for Martha; she died on this date in 1914. As she was the last known passenger pigeon, her death meant the extinction of the species.
(De-extinction efforts are underway.)

Martha