Cattle Drive Could Slow Traffic in Grand Teton National Park on Saturday
They'll be rounding them up and moving them out Saturday morning in Grand Teton National Park, which means you could encounter traffic delays near Moran Junction for a while.
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Treasures Of America's National Parks
Before Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan came out with their view of the National Park System, many others were turning their cameras on the parks. One collection I've found that is worthy of space in your DVD collection is Treasures of America's National Parks, a six-disk collection of some of the system's icons.
- By Kurt Repanshek - June 10th, 2010 2:30am
Circumstances Force National Park Service to Actively Manage Wildlife
Florida panther kittens dosed with dewormers. Black-footed ferrets inoculated against plague. Sterilizing horses at Cape Lookout National Seashore and elk at Rocky Mountain National Park. And now Yellowstone National Park bison that could be vaccinated against brucellosis via air gun.
Curious About Landing A Permit to Float Dinosaur National Monument? Call This Number for Available Dates
Who says those automated phone answering systems, the ones that incessantly ask you to push this number for that information or that information for this tidbit, can't be helpful? A new one operating at Dinosaur National Monument helps you relatively quickly learn when you might be able to land a permit to float the Green or Yampa rivers in the park.
Yellowstone National Park Considering "Remote Vaccination" For Bison To Stem Brucellosis
Ever-present concerns that bison from Yellowstone National Park might spread a deadly disease to Montana cattle has park biologists considering the use of an air-gun-delivered vaccine for the bison.
By Bob Janiskee - October 31st, 2011 7:29am
National Park Quiz 83: Reproduction
Let's see how much you know about the intricate business of passing along genes in our national parks. Answers are at the end. If we catch you peeking, we'll make you write on the whiteboard 100 times: "Bacterial conjugation, which is sometime erroneously characterized as the bacterial equivalent of sexual reproduction, cannot succeed unless the donor bacterium hosts a plasmid, transposon, or similar genetic element that is conjugative or mobilizable."
- By Bob Janiskee - October 31st, 2011 7:29am
Scientists Call For Oceanic "National Parks" To Preserve Sea Environments
There is a pressing need to protect large swathes of ocean environments much like national parks preserve terrestrial landscapes, according to nearly 250 marine scientists from around the world.
Road Work Forces Our Intrepid Travelers To Detour Along the Blue Ridge Parkway
Roadwork along the Blue Ridge Parkway forced our intrepid travelers to detour off the parkway, but the sidetrip proved worthwhile.
Ranger Ingenuity 401 - Horse Rescued from Canyon at Whiskeytown National Recreation Area
Urban firefighters have long been plagued by calls to rescue cats stranded in trees, but rangers at Whiskeytown National Recreation Area recently had a much bigger challenge: how to rescue an 1100-pound horse stranded in a canyon.
Reader Participation Day: Best and Worst Values in National Park Lodging
The quality and rates of national park lodges span a wide range from rustic cabins in several parks renting in the $60 - $80 range to suites at Yosemite’s Ahwahnee that rent for approximately $1,000 per night. The differences in service, amenities, comfort, and atmosphere are substantial, but is a night in an Ahwahnee suite worth ten nights in a cabin at Maswick on the Grand Canyon’s South Rim?
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