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Counter-Culture Art, Soaking Springs, And Palm Trees; How Should Death Valley's Saline Springs Be Managed?

While humans have been soaking in the warm springs found in the remote Saline Valley of Death Valley National Park for perhaps thousands of years, use during the past 50 or so years has the National Park Service taking a look at how the area is being used and what needs to be done to guide visitor use there. The Beat generation and the hippies had their way with it, the Park Service notes, but how should what they created be managed going forward?

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.

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.