Missing From The System? Utah's San Rafael Swell
The Obama administration might have lost its ambition to declare Utah's San Rafael Swell a national monument, but that doesn't lessen the beauty and richness of the landscape and what it encompasses.
Missing From the System
NPCA Officials Pushing For Transfer Of Valles Caldera National Preserve To National Park Service
Valles Caldera National Preserve is an ecologically rich 89,000-acre swath of land in New Mexico, one with a long human history and with a spectacular history of volcanism. And it's an area that National Parks Conservation Association officials believe would best be served as a unit of the National Park System.
Civil War-Era Fort Monroe Drawing Top Attention In Bid To Be Included In National Park System
With personal visits from Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and National Park Service Director Jon Jarvis, has a Civil War-era fort on coastal Virginia become a slam-dunk to be added to the National Park System?
Missing From the System? Tule Springs Harbors Ice Age Fossils In An Urban Setting
Not far from the bright lights and card tables of Las Vegas there's a stretch of desert so relished by developers that street names were attached to blueprints of suburbia. Now, though, that landscape and its unique collection of Ice Age fossils is being promoted as the country's next national monument.
Missing From the System? Fort Monroe, Preserving Civil War History
There are many areas across the country -- both wondrous landscapes and rich pockets of American history -- that arguably would be strong candidates for inclusion in the National Park System. Fort Monroe, a Civil War-era fort in suburban Virginia, is one such candidate, as this story explains.
Missing From the System? Valles Caldera National Preserve
After years when few additions have been made to the National Park System, many important places are poised to be added. A huge dormant volcano in northern New Mexico might well become the first addition under the Obama administration.
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