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Biscayne National Park Looking For Help With Counting Park's Life

Gauging the diversity of life in Biscayne National Park's boundaries will be the task later this month when the park stages a "BioBlitz" with the help of the National Geographic Society.

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April 17th, 2010

Nesting Season Means Some Restrictions at Cape Lookout National Seashore

Piping plovers find the beaches along Cape Lookout National Seashore to offer some great nesting opportunities. As a result, seashore officials have placed some areas off-limits during the threatened bird's nesting season, which runs through August.

Piping Plover Factsheet.pdf

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April 17th, 2010

Hiking To Be Highlighted at Colorado National Monument on May 1

A celebration of hiking will be held Saturday, May 1, at Colorado National Monument when visitors are invited to participate in the inaugural "Serpents Trail Centennial Challenge."

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April 17th, 2010

Heavy Rains and Flash Floods Lead to Backcountry Road Closings at Big Bend National Park

At Big Bend National Park, heavy rains and flooding have forced the closing of some backcountry roads. Motorists planning to use the park’s roads should check with the park for updated road information and plan accordingly.

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April 16th, 2010

Ranger Confidential, Living, Working, and Dying In the National Parks

Television shows love to portray park rangers as fit and polite, beaming dazzling smiles, displaying knowledge that knows no bounds, nerves of steel, and with dashing personalities. And then there are the realities, as Andrea Lankford describes in her latest book, Ranger Confidential: Living, Working, and Dying in the National Parks.

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By Kurt Repanshek - April 16th, 2010 2:28am

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Plan To Visit Capitol Reef National Park During Harvesttime!

Cherries bursting with flavor, juicy peaches and apples, pears and apricots. Those are some of the tasty treasures that await you at Capitol Reef National Park, and they're yours for the pickin'.

List of Fruit and Nut Varieties (CESU).doc

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April 16th, 2010

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Dining At The Parks: High Desert Black Bean Burger With Sunflower Sauce

Stroll into a dining room just about anywhere in the Southwest and you'll find some entree that includes black beans. At the Grand Canyon Lodge on the North Rim of the canyon they've found a way to get black beans into a burger.

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April 16th, 2010

America’s Great Outdoors Initiative Should Give Due Consideration to National Park Values and Needs

The national parks deserve a prominent place in any forward-thinking initiatives emerging from the White House Conference on America's Great Outdoors, which convenes on April 16 to address the challenges, opportunities and innovations surrounding modern-day land conservation and the importance of reconnecting Americans and American families to the outdoors.

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April 15th, 2010

By Bob Janiskee - October 31st, 2011 8:52am

National Park Mystery Spot 10 Revealed: It’s the Jones House at Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve

You can tour this rancher’s mansion, “a regal reminder of the day when cattle ranching was king,” when you visit Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve in eastern Kansas.

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By Bob Janiskee - October 31st, 2011 8:52am

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Condor Chick is First to Hatch at Pinnacles National Monument in Over a Century

There's good news in the effort to bring the California condor back from the brink of extinction: Biologists at Pinnacles National Monument have verified the first successful hatching of a condor egg in the park in over 100 years.

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April 15th, 2010

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