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National Park Service Assessing Wilderness Quality Lands At Valles Caldera

The National Park Service is launching a study into whether there are wilderness quality lands at Valles Caldera National Preserve in New Mexico and is seeking public comments to help with the assessment.

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July 13th, 2022

National Park Service Proposes Plan To Rescue Tidal Basin From Rising Waters

Efforts to protect the National Mall Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C., from rising waters would revolve around rebuilding the seawalls there under a plan open for public comment through September 12.

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July 13th, 2022

Variety Of Strategies Being Used To Combat Washburn Fire At Yosemite

Aerial bombardments, bulldozers, hand tools, and even artificial clouds of humidity are being used at Yosemite National Park to combat the Washburn Fire, which continues to grow in size, fed by acres and acres of dead and down trees and thick ground layers of combustible forest litter.

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July 12th, 2022

175th Anniversary Of Irish Tragedy Marked At Quebec Site

Forty-seven new Celtic crosses have been erected to mark the 175th anniversary of the Irish tragedy of 1847 at Grosse Île and the Irish Memorial National Historic Site in Quebec.

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July 12th, 2022

Grand Canyon's Water System Back To Functioning Normally

Work to repair the electrical system that supports water delivery from the Roaring Springs Pumphouse to the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park has been completed, and water restrictions have been removed.

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July 12th, 2022

National Park Service Proposes To Seasonally Return Traffic To Rock Creek Park's Beach Drive NW

For more than two years the upper portion of Beach Drive through Rock Creek Park in Washington, D.C., has been closed to motorized vehicles, and now the National Park Service is proposing to allow vehicles to return for nine months of the year in a move it describes as "the best way to protect park resources and strike a balance of different users..."

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July 12th, 2022

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Intermountain Regional Director Moving To Washington For New Role

Mike Reynolds, a third-generation National Park Service employee, is leaving his role as regional director of the agency's intermountain office for Washington, D.C., to serve as deputy director for Congressional and external relations.

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July 12th, 2022

Washburn Fire Continues To Grow Out Of Control At Yosemite National Park

A wildfire threatening the Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias at Yosemite National Park continued to grow out of control Monday, spreading to more than 2,300 acres despite the efforts of more than 500 firefighters.

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July 11th, 2022

Charge Laid After Two Foxes Killed In Gros Morne

A person has been charged with feeding a fox family after a fox and one of its kits were struck and killed by vehicles in Gros Morne National Park.

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July 11th, 2022

Smallmouth Bass Spotted In Colorado River Below Glen Canyon Dam

A scenario scientists feared has arrived at Grand Canyon National Park, where smallmouth bass have shown up, a non-native fish that somehow has passed through the Glen Canyon Dam to continue on down the Colorado River where it poses a serious threat to native humpback chub, a native fish.

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July 11th, 2022

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