Park Advocates Rallying Around Theodore Roosevelt National Park
A friends group is forming to support Theodore Roosevelt National Park. The group, Friends of Theodore Roosevelt National Park, is holding an organizational meeting on Sunday, June 29.
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Celebrating Glacier National Park's Going-to-the-Sun Road
It's an engineering wonder, one that not only delights, but also perplexes and confounds, both motorists and road crews. And today the 75th birthday of the Going-to-the-Sun Road in Glacier National Park is being celebrated. It's a time to both reflect on the history of this 50-mile pathway across the park's interior and look as well at the effort to rebuild it.
Comment Period For Revised Gun Regulations for National Parks About to Close
Barring a last-minute change of heart, the Interior Department on Monday will close the public comment period on a proposal to allow national park visitors to arm themselves.
National Park History: Prince William Forest Park Was a Top Secret Spy Training School
Virginia’s Prince William Forest Park became a national park in 1940 and acquired its present name 60 years ago this month. Many people know that the park offers solitude, scenery, and recreation. Most don’t know it was a top secret training school for OSS spies during World War II.
Recalling Yellowstone National Park's Historic 1988 Fire Season
No one realized it at the time, but when a lightning strike ignited a single tree in Yellowstone National Park's Lamar Valley 20 years ago, it was a dire harbinger of what would become a historic fire season.
- By Kurt Repanshek - June 25th, 2008
Eight of California’s 800+ Wildfires Started in Whiskeytown National Recreation Area
Electrical storms of remarkable ferocity surged in from the Pacific this past weekend and started more than 800 wildfires in California. At least eight fires were started in Whiskeytown National Recreation Area in Shasta County. Four fires still burning Wednesday are uncontained and expected to merge.
By Bob Janiskee - October 28th, 2011 11:05am
National Park Quiz 8: Firsts
There is a first time for everything -- every innovation, every event, every development, every activity, every you-name-it. The storied history of the National Park System is loaded with firsts. Take this week's quiz and see if you can be the first to answer all the questions correctly. Answers are at the end. No peeking!
- By Bob Janiskee - October 28th, 2011 11:05am
Deal to Close Sugar Plant and Preserve 187,000 Acres Should Benefit Everglades National Park
In what's being called an unprecedented chapter in land conservation history, the state of Florida has agreed to buy 187,000 acres north of Everglades National Park and preserve the land to help ensure water flows into the park from Lake Okeechobee.
Oglala Sioux Just Might Reclaim Southern Half of Badlands National Park
The Oglala Sioux Tribe might regain exclusive control of 133,000 acres of tribal land that was incorporated into Badlands National Park and is being jointly managed with the National Park Service. If the tribe gets its land back it will establish a major precedent.
NPCA Report Offers Poor Grades For Protection of National Parks
If the National Park Service were graded on how it's managing the National Park System, its latest report card would reflect a mediocre student, one with poor attention to detail.
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