Inside this issue:

Travel from Olympic's mountaintops to the Swiss Alps, explore the weird and wonderful world of dung beetles, discover an American pastime in the desert and more.

The stories:

• A grand tour of the Colorado River — and its trials and tribulations;

• Artists eulogize melting glaciers in Olympic National Park;

• Searching for coatimundi in an Arizona sky island;

• The miniature custodians of Great Smoky Mountains National Park;

• In search of transit solutions in Switzerland;

• Digging up a diamond at Manzanar National Historic Site;

• A Civil War battlefield goes quiet in Pennsylvania;

• Shining a light on the women behind a 20th-century labor union;

• And a park news junkie looks to pass the torch.

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