outdoors

Privatization attempt --- it's being challenged in court, on the argument that the property is legally within a national park

Environmentalists, historic preservationists

try to save the Camino de Cruces

photos by Eric Jackson

  People were not the only ones who left tracks this morning --- a ñequi was here too

This stone-lined trail was a major international trade route in the days before the Panama Railroad

People listen to archaeologist Carlos Fitzgerald explain the historic importance of the Camino de Cruces and the academic and tourism value of saving this relatively well preserved stretch of it

Also in this section:
People take to the Clayton woods to save the Las Cruces Trail
Don't forget to appreciate the flowers
Bird count volunteers needed