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African American Historic Sites In Chesapeake Bay Watershed To Be Documented

History resides in the Chesapeake Bay watershed that hasn't fully been documented. Black history, specifically. But now a partnership of organizations including the National Park Service will work to map and identify sites and landscapes in the watershed region significant to African American history and culture.

House Committee Passes Nearly Two Dozen Public Lands Measures

While the House Natural Resources Committee has approved a wide range of measures that would not only extend park boundaries and protect the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness from mining but also remove Confederate monuments from public lands, with the legislative calendar running out it's questionable whether any of these measures will gain full Congressional passage this year.

Filing Seeks To Determine Extent Of Environmental Contamination At Caneel Bay

A 12-page filing tied to one of the nation's strongest environmental laws could succeed where the National Park Service so far has failed in trying to determine the extent of environmental contamination at the Caneel Bay Resort on the shores of Virgin Islands National Park.

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