Friends Of Acadia Taking Annual Meeting To The Virtual World
This year’s Annual Friends of Acadia Virtual Benefit is open to all with no cost to register.
- By NPT Staff - July 30th, 2020 2:00am
Search Underway For Missing Backpacker At Olympic National Park
Olympic National Park rangers were searching Wednesday for a 21-year-old backpacker from Maryland who was overdue from his trek into the park.
- By NPT Staff - July 29th, 2020 1:30pm
Hermitage Hotel In Tennessee Designated National Historic Landmark
The Hermitage Hotel, which was front and center in the women's suffrage movement in the 1920s, has been designated a National Historic Landmark by the Trump administration.
- By NPT Staff - July 29th, 2020 2:00am
Essay | National Parks As An Impediment To The Sixth Mass Extinction
At a time when conservationists are calling for 30 percent of the world to be protected for nature, and when the E.O. Wilson Foundation warns, “the world’s incredible biodiversity is shrinking fast,” existing national parks – and potential parks -- can play a key role in preserving nature and slowing the sixth mass extinction. But it could be a hard won goal, as national parks and lands worthy of national park designation are being hemmed in by development and resource extraction. These are some of the battlegrounds that are key to nature’s future.
- By Kurt Repanshek - July 29th, 2020 1:45am
Reward Up To $10,000 Offered In Connection With Fires In Glacier National Park
A reward of up to $10,000 is being offered for information leading to the arrest of those responsible for setting a series of fires in and near Glacier National Park in Montana, including one that destroyed the nearly century-old Ford Creek Cabin used by park rangers on winter patrols.
- By NPT Staff - July 28th, 2020 2:21pm
Hiker Shot By Own Gun At Rocky Mountain National Park
A hiker carrying a handgun in his pack shot himself at Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado when the gun discharged when he set the pack down on a rock at Emerald Lake.
- By Kurt Repanshek - July 28th, 2020 1:15pm
National Parks Quiz And Trivia #12 – The Wildlife Edition
The last quiz and trivia piece was all about botany. This quiz is all about wildlife. Now, back in 2011, Bob Janiskee created a Watchable Wildlife Quiz for the Traveler, but I’ve managed to not duplicate any of Professor Janiskee’s questions. So, go ahead and test your wildlife knowledge on these quiz questions before looking at the answers at the bottom of this piece.
- By Rebecca Latson - July 28th, 2020 2:00am
Yellowstone Forever Names Philanthropy Professional As Its CEO And President
Lisa Diekmann, the first executive director of the Yellowstone Park Foundation that four years ago merged with the Yellowstone Association to form Yellowstone Forever, on Monday was named president and CEO of Yellowstone Forever.
- By Kurt Repanshek - July 27th, 2020 4:39pm
Essential Guide To Guadalupe Mountains National Park
Guadalupe Mountains National Park is home to the world’s most extensive Permian fossil reef, the four highest points in Texas, various ecosystems, and historic stories of bloodshed and survival all waiting to be explored. From forested mountains and desert dunes, Guadalupe Mountains offer various ways to explore the area through hours of hiking and backpacking trails not for the faint of heart, or via beautiful settings of flora and wildlife within reach of families.
- By Consuelo Martinez - July 27th, 2020 2:00am
Storms Shutter National Park Units
Hurricanes and their aftermath have shuttered a small handful of units of the National Park System from Hawaii to Texas.
- By NPT Staff - July 26th, 2020 12:02pm
