Eleven states on the eastern half of the country split $3 million in American Battlefield Protection Program grants intended to protect and enhance the country's historic sites.
You can learn quite a bit from children's books. To prove this point, information from a children's book about national parks has been used for National Parks Quiz And Trivia #8. See how much you know, and how much you learn.
Get caught in a rip tide and you're more than likely going to panic. The strong current of water pulling you out to sea can be overpowering. For a North Carolina man, the thought of two young children drowning due to a rip tide prompted him to ignore his own safety and swim out to save them.
Though Carlsbad Caverns National Park just celebrated its 90th birthday, there's little to celebrate about efforts to bring oil and gas leasing to within 10 miles of the iconic park.
An astonishing 600,000 people go missing in North America each year, most of whom are quickly found, but those who disappear in the wilder parts of the continent are often much harder to find. Journalist John Billman admits to being “obsessed with writing about missing persons in wild places,” and in this book he travels thousands of miles from Hawaii to Washington State to the wilds of northern Ontario pursuing intriguing stories of “cold vanishing.” The “cold” is often of the “cold case” sort and sometimes literally people disappearing into wild, cold places.
An Arizona man camped out in a remote area of Glen Canyon National Recreation Area in Utah fell about 70 feet to his death, according to local authorities.
After more than a week of firefighting efforts the Moon Fish fire at Big Cypress National Preserve in Florida is just 15 percent contained, but an approaching tropical storm system could provide some help for the firefighters.
It's been two years since Kīlauea Volcano at Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park began a months-long series of eruptions that drew the world's attention and also inflicted substantial damage to the national park. Now the National Park Service and U.S. Geological Survey are working on a a disaster recovery project and are seeking public input on both how to repair some of the damage and to decide how best to manage visitation in the years ahead.