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What would you think if you bought a house and after paying for the property, the current owners refused to vacate the property? Worse, yet, the previous owners continued to run their business utilizing your property for their private profit, while degrading the property’s value? Would you not be outraged?

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By NPT Staff - May 6th, 2018 2:45am

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Happy 50th Birthday North Cascades National Park!

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the North Cascades National Park Service Complex, a sprawling, wild reserve that includes North Cascades National Park and the Ross Lake and Lake Chelan national recreation areas.

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By NPT Staff - May 6th, 2018 2:30am

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Photo Essay: Kīlauea Volcano's Erupting Lower East Rift Zone

Though not explosively dangerous like Mount St. Helens or Krakatoa, the Kīlauea volcano at Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park is a potent cauldron of earth energy in the form of molten magma. The following photos and video taken late last week hint at the volcano's power.

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By NPT Staff - May 6th, 2018 2:30am

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What Is Steamboat Geyser In Yellowstone National Park Up To? Possibly Nothing.

If Steamboat Geyser in Yellowstone National Park erupts, and there's no media attention, does it make it any less of an event? The answer these days is no, but at the same time, media coverage doesn't make it any more of an event.

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By Kurt Repanshek - May 6th, 2018 1:15am

Canada's Waterton Lakes National Park Ready For Summer

Sure, the calendar says early May, but Waterton Lakes National Park in Canada is ready for the summer season. While the September 2017 Kenow Wildfire affected the park, there still are many recreational opportunities and a full range of special events, volunteer activities, and interpretation programs available this year.

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By NPT Staff - May 5th, 2018 1:30am

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Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park Closes Due To Powerful Quakes, Opening Of Fissures

Powerful earthquakes shook Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park on Friday, causing landslides, opening fissures near the Jaggar Museum, and prompting officials to close the park to visitors and non-emergency personnel for the immediate future. To the southeast outside the park, ruptures along the East Rift Zone downslope of the Kīlauea volcano continued to ooze lava and spray fountains of molten rock into the sky.

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By Kurt Repanshek - May 4th, 2018 11:30pm

Ongoing Transformation Of Kīlauea On Display At Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park

Keep a bottle of soda tightly capped, and the gases are quiet. Rapidly uncap it, and you'll have a fountain of liquid spurting from the bottle. That, essentially, is what might happen to a coursing subterranean river of magma volcanologists are closely watching at Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park.

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By Kurt Repanshek - May 4th, 2018 2:15am

Burnett Oil Co. Says It Will Get To Mitigation At Big Cypress National Preserve

Burnett Oil Co., which environmentalists charge has left miles and miles of deeply rutted tracks and downed vegetation across a northern section of Big Cypress National Preserve, says it is "committed" to repairing the damage and plans to begin next week, a spokeswoman said in a statement to National Parks Traveler.