BOULDER – Michael Grab knows what everyone who sees his work is thinking: He has to be using glue - there's no way he can stack river rocks the way he does without it, right? Wrong. "Sometimes the ...

On a mild Saturday morning in March, I wound my way west from Austin through the Hill Country along Texas Highway 29, took a left through downtown Llano, the barbecue haven and “Deer Capital of Texas, ...

Beyond the opening illustrated poem, the book contains rich resources ABOUT stone stacking, its history, the terms used, the ...

Rock stacking may seem like a wholesome way to leave your mark on a trail. Known as rock cairns, they've been used as navigational guides and memorials in parks and by rivers. But some park officials ...

HOUSTON – You’ve probably seen them at parks across Texas and the United States, and probably the world: rock cairns. They’re the stacks of stones people place, often in waterways or on trails. In ...

The Department of Natural Resources is urging state park visitors to avoid taking rocks from trails and bodies of water and then stacking them to make a tower. Whether it be for decorative purposes or ...

YPSILANTI, MI -- Huron River environmental officials are requesting that river-goers knock over rock stacks they see because of their negative effect on aquatic life. Pulling rocks out of the water to ...

Building a cairn, AKA: rock stacking, sounds like a beautiful way to commune with nature and unwind. The process doesn't involve anything more than collecting rocks of various sizes and then stacking ...

PARADISE, MICH. -- Tahquamenon Falls State Park is reminding visitors that the seemingly innocent act of stacking rocks in nature is actually harmful to the environment. “Thank you for being ...

Just like carving initials into a tree, leaving behind trash in a campground, or spray-painting your name on a rock face, do not stack the rocks. Sometimes called cairns, these rock stacks are often ...

Some Texas park officials want people to stop stacking rocks in state parks. They say it disturbs the wildlife habitats there. Rock stacking may seem like a wholesome way to leave your mark on a trail ...