Kolya Partan

Kolya currently coordinates communications at Mount Grace Land Conservation Trust -- a regional land trust that has helped protect over 40,000 acres in North-Central Massachusetts. He has a a background in digital media and completed his B.A. in Political Science from the College of the Holy Cross in 2022, after which he spent two years working as a conservation corps field leader in Colorado and Maine. Kolya is passionate about connecting people with the land, and he’s an avid outdoorsman, likes to hike, fish and write in his free time.

Hiking Guide to Redwood National and State parks

If you’ve ever walked among these giants, you know it feels like stepping into a time machine set to the Jurassic Period. In the cathedral-like redwood groves, the flying squirrels gliding above could just as easily be pterodactyls. Mile after emerald mile, primeval redwoods tower above the forest floor — growing taller than even the

Explore: Shenandoah National Park

Looking out over the Blue Ridge Mountains, rolling layers of mountain ridgelines melt away from you in all shades of blue until they join with the hazy sky beyond. Shenandoah National Park lives up to its founding charter: “an Eastern park in the Western tradition.” Despite being just 70 miles west of Washington, DC, the

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