I couldn’t tell you where I was when I first saw Secret’s whole-body deodorant commercial, but I can tell you it has followed me everywhere since—from Instagram to YouTube to my household’s patchwork of streaming services. “Wanna know a secret? More than just my armpits stink,” a woman deadpans straight into the camera. Then, a chorus of women cheerfully extolls the benefits of “spraying, swiping, or smoothing” the peach and vanilla-scented deodorant “everywhere—and they really do mean everywhere.” One woman puts it on in her bathroom, while another applies it in a locker room. Yet another uses it in her office, kicking her bare feet up on the desk in front of her and spritzing them. The last woman—clad in a flannel shirt, khaki shorts, and hiking boots—rubs the product on her legs while sitting on a tree stump in the woods.

“I use Secret whole-body deodorant for clinically-proven odor protection everywhere, so I smell great all day, all hike, and all night,” she says in of the ad.

Women’s bodies��have long been stigmatized as dirty, a problem to be solved. In the sixties, amidst the moon landing, the first artificial heart transplant, and the invention of the cassette tape, there came another male innovation: the feminine-hygiene deodorant spray. By 1973, when the late Nora Ephron reported on the euphemistically-named product for , it occupied the medicine cabinets of more than 20 million American women. “The feminine-hygiene spray is the term coined by the industry for a deodorant for the external genital area (or, more exactly, the external perineal area),” Ephron wrote. “The American woman [has] been convinced to spray her mouth, her underarms, and her feet; the feminine-hygiene spray, at this point, was probably inevitable.”

But why stop at these parts? Or even limit ourselves to sprays? Half a century later, so-called whole-body deodorants—in sticks, aerosols, and creams—are all the rage. In 2017, a little company called Lume introduced the idea of deodorizing not just “pits,” but also “underboob,” “thigh creases,” and “crotch and butt smells” to the masses. In 2024, legacy brands got in on the action, with whole-body deodorants from Procter & Gamble’s Secret, Old Spice, and Native brands hitting drugstore shelves in January. Dove and SheaMoisture, which are both owned by Unilever, released their own versions in May. If only Ephron, who died in 2012, was here to see how far we’ve come. Instead of purchasing separate sprays for her armpits, feet, and vagina, the modern woman can reach for an all-in-one product to rid her entire body of any natural scent.

The messaging isn’t quite as blunt as it was in the 1960s, when feminine-hygiene sprays “essential…to your peace of mind about being a girl.” But while there are some brands making whole-body deodorant for men, like Mando and Dove’s Men+Care line, the majority of whole-body deodorants are targeted toward women. There’s also a subtle difference in how the offerings for different genders are marketed. Women’s whole-body deodorants offer “odor protection”; men’s whole body deodorants “” With this in mind, it’s worth asking whether women really need this “protection” in every sphere of life. After all, is smelling “very human” after a hike, as one of the women in the Secret ad says, really such a terrible thing?

Do You Really Need Whole-Body Deodorant?

, four out of five dermatologists and gynecologists recommend their whole-body deodorant, which contains antimicrobial ingredients that inhibit the growth of odor-causing bacteria. (Secret and Procter & Gamble did not respond to multiple requests for comment). But whether or not you must coat the entire surface area of your skin with a layer of deodorant to smell good is another question. So, does the average person actually need this all-over product?

“The short answer is no, definitely not,” says Dr. Jenna Peart, a dermatologist at Boulder Medical Center in Colorado. “Most of these deodorants are not antiperspirants, so they’re not a solution for excessive sweating that can sometimes lead to body odor.”

Peart is generally skeptical of products that claim to treat vaginal odor. In her practice, she sees women with vulvar rashes and irritation caused by scented products like feminine wipes. Some fragrances and preservatives in laundry detergent can also trigger itching and redness in the genital area, she says.

“The only thing I ever recommend for cleaning the groin is water and gentle soap with no added fragrance,” Peart says. “All that extra stuff tends to cause more problems.”

For most people, changing out of sweaty clothes and taking a shower after a workout or long day outdoors should be enough, Peart says. If you’re showering every day and still having issues with body odor, that’s a sign that you should see a doctor.

“If you leave sweat on your skin, that will inevitably lead to bacterial growth which can be odor-producing. Basic hygiene practices can usually take care of that,” Peart explains. “But there are conditions where you can have colonization of odor-producing bacteria, like bromhidrosis. That’s an actual medical condition that you can get treatment for.” (Bromhidrosis is abnormal or excessive body odor, typically caused by the bacterial breakdown of sweat gland secretions).

Whether the underlying issue is bromhidrosis��or hyperhidrosis (excessive sweating), reducing the amount a patient sweats is usually the goal, Peart says. Possible treatment options include prescription-strength antiperspirants, oral medications, topical antibiotics, and Botox injections.

“There are much better ways to manage this than using over-the-counter products,” Peart says.

OK, so if given the option of smearing deodorant all over your body or taking a shower, you should probably just wash yourself. But what if you’re camping out in the wilderness for days or weeks at a time? Should you fill precious space in your pack with whole-body deodorant so you can “smell great all day, all hike, and all night?”

Still, the answer is no. Scented products can attract bugs and other wildlife, including bears, which is why organizations like and strongly advise against bringing deodorant into the backcountry.

“I’ve done some backpacking in Wyoming’s Wind River Range, where mosquitoes are a massive issue. They’re just swarming everywhere. And I’ve also camped in areas like the Maroon Bells-Smowmass Wilderness, where there are a lot of bears and you’re mandated to carry bear canisters,” Peart says. “Fragrance is definitely frowned upon, and for good reason. What I do is what I generally recommend for my patients, many of whom partake in these activities. I clean off sweat and dirt with a small, quick-dry towel with some water or one fragrance-free baby wipe that I pack out. And then I change into dry clothes for the evening.”

How to Maintain Personal Hygiene While Camping

It’s normal to have a bit of body odor when spending extended time outdoors. Personal hygiene will probably look, smell, and feel different while you’re out in nature—and that’s OK.

“Backcountry hygiene is more about cleanliness rather than smelling good. That means cleaning your skin and other parts of your body that are more prone to bacterial growth and infection,” says Whitney Pander, a program director at Outward Bound’s Maine and Florida basecamps.

For Kate Abraham, another Outward Bound program director based in Maine, it’s helpful to see your outdoor personal-care regimen in relation to your day-to-day hygiene practices.

“I feel that my backcountry routines in comparison to my front-country routines are not that different,” Abraham says. “I’m still trying to care for the same parts of my body, only in a simplified way.”

Just like at home, it’s important to wash your hands after using the bathroom, and you should clean your face, armpits, feet, and private parts daily. Some people use biodegradable soap and a washcloth, while others prefer tea tree oil and a cotton bandana. After peeing, some people use , while others may feel more comfortable with toilet paper and unscented wipes. Brush your teeth twice a day with your usual toothpaste or toothpaste tabs.

“Sometimes you hear that there’s a very specific way to care for yourself in the wilderness, which tends to be very minimal and not inclusive of different skin, hair, and body types,” Pander says. “As an organization, we’re moving away from that. It’s about understanding your body and finding the right care that your body needs.”

There’s no one-size-fits-all backcountry hygiene routine, Pander and Abraham say. What matters is that you take care of your health while honoring Leave No Trace principles: do your business and rinse yourself off at least 200 feet away from a body of water, pack out wipes, toilet paper, and menstrual products, and spray your toothpaste instead of spitting it out in a clump. When it comes to pooping, there is over the merits of using WAG bags or other waste-disposal kits versus digging a cat hole. One thing’s for sure: no “surface turds.”

And leave the deodorant—whole-body or not—at home. In addition to attracting critters, reapplying deodorant without thoroughly bathing can clog pores and lead to rashes. For some students, especially self-conscious teenagers, the prospect of not wearing deodorant can be anxiety-inducing, Abraham says. But talking openly about their insecurities can take some of the pressure off.

“I tend to approach it with humor. Like, yeah we might smell bad, but we’ll smell bad together,” Abraham says. “As humans, we want to feel like we belong. And so when I emphasize that this is something we’re doing together, they’re like, OK, we’re all doing it.”

Of course we shouldn’t be focused on body odor while enjoying the great outdoors. But when we go off the grid to escape the stifling expectations of the real world, we may still take all the cultural messaging about what our bodies should look and smell like with us. The solution to this problem isn’t dousing ourselves in artificial fragrances. Rather, it’s practicing true self-care—which involves a healthy dose of self-acceptance—wherever we are.

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“There are no other everglades in the world,” conservationist Marjory Stoneman Douglas wrote in 1947 in The Everglades: River of Grass. “They are, they have always been, one of the unique regions of the earth, remote, never wholly known.” To sisters and , who grew up in a small town near Everglades National Park, the only way to know this river of grass is to wade through its boggy expanse. “Walking into the swamp brings you off the paved trails and into the canopy of trees, where you’ll hear, smell, touch, and see the Everglades in a much more intimate manner,” Evie says. For the portfolio on the following pages, the two photographers wanted to join as many park-ranger-led as they’re called, as possible. During these guided tours, they captured the park’s towering mangroves and thick saw grass, its iconic alligators and long-legged herons. Some of the sisters’ earliest recollections of the Everglades come from elementary school field trips, when they held baby gators and trudged through swampland. “When I got older, what remained with me were physical and spiritual memories of feeling connected to the earth,” Melanie says. “This is a subtly gorgeous place that needs to be protected. We don’t want the pictures to be the only thing left.”

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Off the coast of Rhode Island, a ten-square-mile speck in the Atlantic hosts an annual treasure hunt. Each year hundreds of handblown glass fishing floats—clear balls the size of oranges—are hidden across Block Island’s picturesque beaches and walking trails. Since Eben Horton started the in 2012, the art installation has gained worldwide recognition. He and his wife, Jennifer Nauck, make the orbs at their studio in the nearby coastal town of Wakefield. Then, from June to October, a top-secret group of hiders stash the spheres. “For a long time, he was hiding them on his own. But then people became familiar with him, and they would follow him around,” says New England photographer . Keith traveled to Block Island by ferry six times this summer, tagging along with avid “orbivores” as they scoured the island for the curios. Many visitors go home empty-handed after hours of searching, but that level of sustained attention to one’s surroundings isn’t wasted, he says. The hunt encourages people to appreciate nature’s understated splendor. “It’s easy to get lost in the island’s sweeping views. The orbs pull your attention away from that,” Keith says. “You’re spending just as much time looking at the trunk of a tree as you are looking out over the ocean bluffs.”

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Rain or shine, snow or sleet, a daring group of swimmers, ranging in age from 35 to 79, spend weekends at their favorite river in Northern California. They won’t tell you where exactly. But they will readily extol the benefits of cold-water swimming. Their secret spot hardly ever gets warmer than 55 degrees; the risk of hypothermia is real. But so is the boost in mood and well-being. “Getting into the river and realizing that I can do hard things has given me a lot of confidence and joy,” says Pamela Duncan, 57. The informal club came together in the spring of 2020, when the pools where they live were shuttered because of COVID-19. Within months, a collective of more than 30 women (and a few men) had formed, mostly by word of mouth. Clad in wetsuits, they cover distances of anywhere from a few hundred yards to four miles, encountering the occasional harbor seal or great blue heron along the way. sought them out in May, to witness their camaraderie and take a dip herself. “I was lucky to spend a week with them and capture those in-between moments—the anticipation before jumping in, exiting the river, pouring warm water on themselves after a swim,” Tompkins says. “I grew up swimming competitively, and after high school I pretty much stopped. But with this trip, I definitely caught the bug again.”

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Twenty minutes from downtown Atlanta sits the South River Forest, known as one of the city’s “four lungs.” Like similar green spaces in and around the neighborhoods of Buckhead, Cascade Heights, and Druid Hills, its vast tree canopy inhales carbon dioxide and exhales oxygen. For most of the 20th century, 300 acres of this land was a prison farm. Before that it was a slave plantation, and before that a home to the Muscogee people, who were violently forced out of what they call the Weelaunee Forest in the early 1800s. Since the 1990s, the abandoned woods and surrounding waterways have been treated as a dumping ground by local businesses and residents, leaving nearby, predominantly Black and lower-income neighborhoods to deal with the literal downstream effects. Yet its trees go on filtering rainwater, purifying the air, and counteracting the urban heat-island effect—in which paved surfaces trap solar energy and drive up ambient temperatures—breathing life into the metropolitan area by simply existing.

It was here that Manuel Paez Terán (who went by the name Tortuguita) took their last breath after law enforcement shot them at least 57 times during a multiagency raid on January 18. The 26-year-old was one of dozens of activists protesting the construction of a sprawling, $90 million training center for police and firefighters on 85 acres of the South River Forest. The project was spearheaded by the Atlanta Police Foundation. Approved by the Atlanta City Council in 2021, the campus—which opponents call Cop City—would include a shooting range, a driving course for practicing high-speed chases, and a mock village to rehearse raids. With Atlanta still reeling from the police killing of Rayshard Brooks in 2020, activists saw Cop City as a repudiation of protesters’ calls for racial justice and police accountability.

Questions linger about the circumstances of Terán’s death. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation says that officers fired in self-defense after Terán shot a state trooper, who was seriously wounded. Authorities also allege that a handgun recovered from the scene belonged to Terán. But activists believe that the officer may have been struck by friendly fire. The state claims that there is no body-camera footage of the shooting itself, but in a video captured just after the incident, an Atlanta police officer is heard saying, “You fucked your own officer up.” He later approaches two other officers and asks, “They shoot their own man?” An autopsy by the DeKalb County medical examiner did not find gunshot residue on Terán’s hands, but further testing by state investigators revealed more than five “particles characteristic of gunshot primer residue.” The report also stated, “It is possible for victims of gunshot wounds, both self-inflicted and non-self-inflicted, to have [gunshot residue] present on their hands.”

In a statement, attorneys for Terán’s family referred to the test results as “inconclusive.” An earlier autopsy commissioned by the attorneys concluded that at the time Terán was shot, they were sitting cross-legged, with their hands in the air.

“There has always been a risk of violence in environmental activism,” says Keith Woodhouse, a history professor at Northwestern University. “But this is the first time ever, in the history of the United States, that there has been an environmental activist killed by law enforcement.”

The public may never know the truth about what happened to Terán. What’s clear is that they were an advocate for passive resistance. In an interview with reporter David Peisner last December, Terán said, “We’re not going to beat them at violence. They’re very, very good at violence. We’re not. We win through nonviolence.” After graduating magna cum laude from Florida State University, Terán became active in the organization Food Not Bombs, helping feed homeless people in Tallahassee. They were growing their hair long to donate to children with cancer, their brother Daniel Esteban Paez told the Associated Press. According to the DeKalb County medical examiner’s report, Terán’s black curls, pulled back in a ponytail, measured 12 inches in length.

The decentralized “Stop Cop City” movement has not been entirely peaceful. Demonstrators have thrown Molotov cocktails at police and torched construction vehicles. Georgia has charged dozens with domestic terrorism, a move that human rights groups have criticized as excessive and politically motivated. In a statement in March, the American Civil Liberties Union speculated that the state had leveled such extreme accusations because the protest “challenges the increasing militarization of the police.”

In October, the Georgia Bureau of Investigations announced the officers who shot Terán will not be charged.

Terán died rejecting the idea that training neighborhood cops to fight protesters like insurgents would increase public safety. Their spirit lives on , “¡Viva, viva Tortuguita! ¡Viva, viva Tortuguita!”

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The tallest peak in the Alps just got a little bit shorter.

Mont Blanc, the snowcapped massif standing on France’s border with Italy, lost approximately seven feet of elevation between 2021 and 2023, researchers say. Scientists from France’s Haute-Savoie regional administration revealed the information on Thursday, October 5. They said that Mont Blanc’s current height is 15,766 feet tall—the shortest it’s been since scientists began regularly measuring its elevation in 2001.

“The top of Mont Blanc is like a dune, it moves, and it is not the first time we have measured height variations of more than two meters,” said Cecile Taffin of the UNGE surveyors union.

The peak’s highest recorded height came in 2007 when it measured 15,783 feet and 79 inches.

Researchers began measuring the peak in 2001 to try and understand how climate change is impacting the Alps. They place small receivers in the snow that emit GPS signals, and the devices allow them to chart the peak’s height to within less than half an inch.

Denis Borel, one of the surveyors involved in the project, told French television channel TF1 that the shrinking is likely due to a loss of ice and snow at the summit. Borel said the peak had lost 3,500 cubic meters (123,600 cubic feet) of ice since 2021, “representing roughly the volume of an Olympic swimming pool.” But Borel said the shrinking may not be linear, and that the peak could add snow and ice in the coming years. “Climatologists and glaciologists tell us that it takes approximately 50 years of measurement to be able to draw conclusions on possible global warming at this altitude of 4,800 meters,” he said.

Jean des Garets, chief geometer in Haute-Savoie, says the mountain “could well be much taller in two years.”

“The summit is constantly changing in altitude and position, with changes of up to five meters,” des Garets told the BBC. “We’re gathering the data for future generations. We’re not here to interpret them—we leave that up to the scientists.”

Luc Moreay, a glaciologist from Chamonix, said shifts in wind and precipitation may be the culprits behind the loss of ice on the summit. High winds blow snow and ice from the peak, diminishing the height. During years of drought, less rain and snow falls atop the peak, contributing to the loss. “This is not representative of global climate warming, because the climatic conditions at the summit of Mont Blanc are rather polar,” he said.

Of course, the effects of climate change are apparent across the Alps. In Switzerland, the mountain range’s glaciers have shrunk by half since the 1930s. Recent research suggests western Europe’s at least 30 percent of their volume in recent decades. The melting has unearthed a trove of lost items across the mountainous region: wreckage from a plane crash, and multiple human bodies.

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As if vomiting blood wasn’t bad enough, imagine doing it while stuck in a 3,000-foot deep cave on the other side of the world.

That’s what happened to American researcher Mark Dickey during an expedition to explore the Morca cave in Turkey. After spending nearly two weeks underground with severe stomach problems, the 40-year-old was pulled to safety on a stretcher shortly after midnight on Tuesday, September 12, .

“It is amazing to be above ground again,” Dickey told reporters on Tuesday. “I was underground for far longer than ever expected…It’s been one hell of a crazy, crazy adventure, but I’m on the surface safely. I’m still alive.”

The complicated rescue mission involved around 190 experts from across Europe, including doctors, paramedics, and cavers, . Many of the rescuers camped near the cave’s opening in southern Turkey’s Taurus mountains.

The race to save Dickey also generated headlines across the globe. TV crews caught images of him emerging from the cave.

An experienced caver himself, Dickey was on an expedition mapping the 4,186-foot deep Morca cave system for the Anatolian Speleology Group Association when he became ill on August 31. He was unable to leave the cave on his own, according to a New Jersey-based cave rescue group he is affiliated with.

“Only the most experienced of cavers are capable of reaching him to render aid,” the said in a statement last week. “The location is very remote and the local water resources are limited.”

Starting on Sunday, September 3, doctors began administering IV fluids and blood to Dickey inside the chilly cavern, where the temperature hovered between 39 and 42 degrees Fahrenheit. A team including a doctor and three or four other rescuers took turns staying by Dickey’s side. It’s unclear what caused Dickey’s illness.

After Dickey was medically stabilized, authorities began attempting to extract him on Saturday, September 9.

In order to evacuate Dickey, rescuers had to widen some of the caves’ narrow passages, install ropes to hoist him up vertical shafts, and set up camps to rest along the way, the Associated Press reported. The Morca cave is Turkey’s third-deepest, reaching nearly .8 miles below ground.

shows him strapped tightly to a litter, as rescuers slowly maneuver him around cramped corners. After he emerged, members of his rescue crew celebrated, and some shared their stories with reporters. Zsofia Zador, a Hungarian anesthesiologist, it was her first “big rescue for me as a doctor.”

“This is quite a difficult cave because there are some small narrow passages and the shafts are quite muddy so it is not the easiest cave to traverse,” Zador said.

from his hospital bed on Tuesday, Dickey thanked people for “the outpouring of support and well wishes.”

“It has been a scary experience and the closest to death I’ve been yet,” Dickey said. “I truly appreciate all the people involved in both saving my life and helping me escape from so deep inside a cave.”

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Climbing Mount Everest : guide services cost tens of thousands of dollars, and then there’s the airfare, insurance, and cost of gear. You must also purchase a climbing permit. For 2023, Nepal required foreigners to pay $11,000 for the requisite permit to climb the world’s highest peak.

That price is set to rise—somewhat dramatically. Earlier this month, tourism authorities announced that the price of a permit will go up to $15,000 in 2025—a 36 percent bump. The reason? Dead bodies are piling up on the world’s highest peak, and recovering corpses is a costly affair.

The change comes “amid persistent complaints over the growing number of deaths” on the 29,035-foot mountain, . Along with the fee increase, the government will also mandate that dead bodies are brought down from Everest.

Nima Nuru Sherpa, president of the Nepal Mountaineering Association, said not all climbers have insurance that covers the cost of search and rescue—and the retrieval of the deceased.

“We are discussing making insurance mandatory in search and rescue operations for all to support the retrieval of bodies from the mountain,” he told The Kathmandu Post. “If the dead bodies are not retrieved during that particular time or season, we have urged the government to issue a royalty-free permit to retrieve them at any time during the season or the next year.”

According to mountaineering officials, it can cost anywhere from $20,000 to $200,000 to remove a dead body from Everest’s “death zone,” an oxygen-depleted area at around 26,000 feet.

This year was one of the deadliest in Everest’s history, with 17 fatalities. More people are attempting to summit Everest than ever, with a record 478 permits issued this spring.

After the climbing season ended in June, guides, Nepali officials, and mountaineers debated why so many climbers died. Some pointed to climate change, and said that conditions felt colder than normal on the peak. Dr. Yuba Raj Khatiwada, the director of Nepal’s tourism department, that variable conditions likely led to the uptick in fatalities. “This season the weather conditions were not favorable,” he said.

But others say that the shifting economics of Himalayan expeditions are to blame. In recent years, guiding companies offering inexpensive, no-frills expeditions have gained popularity. These companies often bring inexperienced climbers onto the peak without the requisite training or support to save themselves when problems arise, critics say.

“The operators supporting those climbers still have a mindset that they are merely providing expedition services and not guiding these people and therefore feel no sense of responsibility for them,” Phil Crampton, founder of the Kathmandu-based Altitude Junkies expedition company, told ���ϳԹ��� earlier this year.

More than 300 people have died on Everest since 1953, when the summit was first reached by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, . Over 200 bodies are scattered across the mountain, with some serving as landmarks for climbers.

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For much of last week, the southwestern U.S. and parts of Mexico ��braced for a Category 4 hurricane that the World Meteorological Organization called “Hilary.” After making landfall on Sunday, August 20, in Mexico’s Baja California peninsula, as he attempted to cross a stream, Hilary—which was downgraded to a tropical storm—barreled on toward California. On Monday, August 21, officials downgraded the storm again, labeling it��a . Still, the weakening storm—which has already slammed California with heavy rain and flooding—could still cause significant damage as it moves northward into Nevada.

Anticipating dangerous conditions this weekend, officials closed California’s Death Valley National Park, Joshua Tree National Park, Mojave National Preserve, Manzanar National Historic Site, and Nevada’s Lake Mead National Recreation Area.��

Here’s what to know about the closures.

Death Valley National Park

By 1:30 P.M. on Sunday, August 20, America’s “hottest, driest, and lowest” national park had recorded one inch of rain, enough to cause flash floods and prompt officials to close the park.������

“Park rangers are reminding travelers to ‘Turn around, don’t drown,’” the park service said . “Flash floods are rivers of mud and rocks that can easily sweep cars off roads. Emergency responders may not be able to reach people in need.”����

An additional one to three inches of rain were expected overnight. During an average year, Death Valley only receives 2.2 inches of rainfall.

Joshua Tree National Park

On Saturday, August 19, Joshua Tree National Park closed to visitors. A flash flood watch is in effect at the park until 5 P.M. on Monday, August 21, with six to eight inches of rain expected.

“Just a few inches of water can be strong enough to move cars,” officials said in a Facebook post. “Washes can quickly turn into streams and rivers after heavy rainfall.”

Mojave National Preserve

The Mojave desert is being hit with torrential rains just after sections of it were burned by the York Fire, which ravaged more than 80,000 acres of its delicate ecosystem. The park service closed Mojave National Preserve on Friday, August 18, anticipating historic flooding. , the preserve was open to visitors, but many roads and facilities remained closed.

“The storm is expected to cause substantial debris flows and washing out of road shoulders in the preserve, making roadways dangerous and impassable,” officials said . “Of particular concern is erosion and sediment mobilization exacerbated by the recent York Fire.”

Manzanar National Historic Site

closed to visitors on Sunday, August 20, and is under a flash flood watch until 5 A.M. on Tuesday, . Located six miles south of Independence, California, the site is one of ten former concentration camps where Japanese Americans were incarcerated during World War II.����

Lake Mead National Recreation Area

On Monday, August 21, park rangers at Lake Mead National Recreation Area were out assessing overnight storm damage, . “We will be doing assessments and bringing operations back online in an orderly fashion throughout the day, and we expect the park to re-open and return to normal operations Tuesday,” officials said.

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