National Parks Traveler

A long-term study into how best to manage the mix of private and public lands surrounding and within Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area in California has led the National Park Service to recommend a 170,000-acre addition to the NRA, though it would not entail actually purchasing all those additional acres.

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By Kurt Repanshek - February 17th, 2016 2:00am

Shenandoah, A Park Among Parks

To highlight the wonders and resources to be found at Shenandoah National Park in Virginia, the National Park Service has created a series of short videos. This, the first in that series, introduces viewers to the nation's national parks in general, as well as Shenandoah, A Park Among Parks.

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By NPT Staff - February 16th, 2016 2:45am

Connecting The Dots: Fort Union Trading Post And "The Revenant"

If "The Revenant," Leonardo DiCaprio's early 19th century story of surviving a grizzly bear attack on the Western frontier, caught your eye, then you might want to head to North Dakota this summer to see part of the landscape that his character, Hugh Glass, crossed in his search for retribution.

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By Kurt Repanshek - February 16th, 2016 2:15am

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Philanthropist Gives $18.5 Million For Restoration Of Lincoln Memorial

A philanthropist who already has given more than $25 million to cover needed repairs and restoration of National Park Service properties in Washington, D.C., has given another $18.5 million for needed work on the Lincoln Memorial.

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By NPT Staff - February 16th, 2016 2:00am

Politicians, Conservationists, And National Parks

It's rich political theater, watching the ongoing debate over a possible national park in Maine's North Woods, as well as the long-running efforts to resolve land-use practices on millions of federal acres in Utah. Boasts have been made, promises allegedly discarded, and no resolution in either state has been made.

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By Kurt Repanshek - February 15th, 2016 2:45am

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Lassen Volcanic National Park Gets Augmented Reality Sandbox

A new high-tech, hands-on augmented reality sandbox at Lassen Volcanic National Park helps visitors better understand concepts relating to topography and watersheds.

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By NPT Staff - February 15th, 2016 2:30am

100 Years Of National Park Service Celebrated In Artworks

Lowell National Historical Park in Massachusetts is working with a local art gallery to honor the National Park Service Centennial with an art exhibit intended to celebrate the national parks.

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By NPT Staff - February 15th, 2016 2:15am

Imagine Channel Islands National Park

Imagine a place in Southern California without freeways, a place without strip malls, smog, or freeway-clogging traffic. Then, imagine a necklace of grassy islands where eagles soar and foxes run, where abandoned olive groves and ripening figs attract ravens. Imagine crystal-blue ocean waters, where the golden Garibaldi swims through swaying kelp forests beneath wave-battered sea caves, undisturbed by cargo ships and oil platforms.

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By Patrick Cone - February 14th, 2016 2:45am

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Once-Rare Channel Island Foxes Proposed To Be Delisted From Endangered Species Act Protections

In what the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is calling "the fastest successful recovery for any Endangered Species Act-listed mammal in the United States," the agency is proposing to remove three subspecies of the island fox native to the Channel Islands from ESA protection.