Timucuan Ecological & Historic Preserve is One of the National Park System’s Best Kept Secrets
Timucuan Ecological & Historic Preserve scarcely appears on the national radar screen, and that's a shame. This million-visit park is a real gem.
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Can You Find the Desert Five-Spot In Death Valley National Park?
With all the talk of late about the prospects for a colorful, and plentiful, bloom in Death Valley National Park, let's start talking flowers in earnest. For instance, have you ever seen a Desert Five-Spot in the park?
Secretary Salazar Calls for Review Of Gun Rules in National Parks
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has asked the National Park Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to spend three months looking into the environmental consequences of allowing national park visitors to arm themselves.
Bears with a Foot Fetish? Big Bend National Park Offers New Bear Safety Advice
Officials in Big Bend National Park have issued some slightly unusual guidelines for backcountry campers in parts of the Texas park: "Leave shoes outside tents or in bear boxes if camping in High Chisos backcountry sites." Recent experience suggests this is good advice.
By Bob Janiskee - October 28th, 2011 1:33pm
National Park Quiz 42: Rocks and Minerals
This week’s quiz will find out whether you are a rock star. Answers are at the end. If we catch you peeking, we’ll give you a sledge hammer and make you turn big rocks into little ones.
- By Bob Janiskee - October 28th, 2011 1:33pm
Delicate Arch Road at Arches National Park Reopens After Flood-Inspired Improvements
Winter can be a great time to visit Arches National Park, but the off-season is also a good time for maintenance and repairs. The road to Delicate Arch, one of the park's signature attractions, had been closed this month for major work inspired by flooding in 2006, but it's now open again for public use.
Believe it or Not, Yosemite National Park Once had a Zoo
Tourists visiting Yosemite National Park in the 1920s could view mountain lions, a bear, and deer kept in cages and enclosures. Despite drawing heated criticism, this wacky zoo persisted for more than a decade before finally being abolished in 1932.
- February 17th, 2009
Grand Teton National Park's Wildlife Brigade – Applications Are Now Being Accepted
If you've spent much time in Grand Teton National Park during the summer, you've likely been caught in a wildlife jam—or seen visitors doing something really dumb in terms of wildlife safety. Grand Teton is taking a proactive approach to these problems with its Wildlife Brigade, and applications are being accepted for two internships and two volunteer positions for the upcoming summer.
How Will Stimulus Help the Parks? At Great Sand Dunes National Park It Could Mean Reclamation and Restoration
Although the National Park Service didn't receive as many stimulus dollars as it could put to work, that doesn't mean that the $750 million or so won't go to good use across the park system.
Friends of the Smokies to Get First Year Proceeds of Dolly Parton’s New CD
Dolly Parton, official ambassador of Great Smoky’s 75th anniversary celebration, is donating the first-year proceeds from the sale of her new "Sha-Kon-Hey!" CD to Friends of Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
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