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Allstadt’s Corner, Important To John Brown’s Raid, Donated To Harpers Ferry National Historical Park

Nearly 160 years after John Brown raided the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, the National Park Service has received 13 acres that help tell his story. The American Battlefield Trust purchased property known as Allstadt’s Corner, which includes Allstadt’s Ordinary, and transferred it to Harpers Ferry National Historical Park. The donation comes during the park’s yearlong 75th anniversary celebration.

Big Bend National Park Ends Sheep Monitoring and Removal Season

The end of summer means the end of sheep monitoring in Big Bend National Park. The National Park Service, in coordination with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, has concluded aerial surveying for native Bighorn Sheep and removal operations targeting non-native Aoudad (Barbary Sheep) in the park's Dead Horse Mountains and Boquillas Canyon areas.

This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption Are Ruining the American West

Christopher Ketcham leads each chapter in This Land with a quotation. The lead to the third chapter in the first section of the book is from Aldo Leopold, who wrote, “One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist . . . must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise.” While Ketcham is an investigative journalist, his ecological education came over ten years of reporting on public lands across the West, and he found a “world of wounds” and much denial of the degradation and ruination of the region.

Photography In The National Parks: Your Armchair Photography Guide To The North Cascades Complex

The North Cascades Complex, comprised of Lake Chelan National Recreation Area, Ross Lake National Recreation Area, and North Cascades National Park, is a vast landscape of cold, clear rivers, thick forests, and rugged mountains webbed with a network of trails having few access roads and mainly for backcountry backpackers. Photographer Rebecca Latson recently visited this area and returns with an Armchair Photography Guide to prove you can still get awesome photos of the North Cascades Complex without having to hike into the backcountry to do so.

Friends Of Virgin Islands National Park Want Caneel Bay Resort To Revert To Park

While Interior Department officials and CBI Acquisitions, LLC, outwardly appear in a standoff over the future operation of Caneel Bay Resort at Virgin Islands National Park, the park's friends group wants to see the resort property revert to the National Park Service as the late Laurance S. Rockefeller wanted.