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Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park Closes Due To Powerful Quakes, Opening Of Fissures

Powerful earthquakes shook Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park on Friday, causing landslides, opening fissures near the Jaggar Museum, and prompting officials to close the park to visitors and non-emergency personnel for the immediate future. To the southeast outside the park, ruptures along the East Rift Zone downslope of the Kīlauea volcano continued to ooze lava and spray fountains of molten rock into the sky.

Ongoing Transformation Of Kīlauea On Display At Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park

Keep a bottle of soda tightly capped, and the gases are quiet. Rapidly uncap it, and you'll have a fountain of liquid spurting from the bottle. That, essentially, is what might happen to a coursing subterranean river of magma volcanologists are closely watching at Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park.

Burnett Oil Co. Says It Will Get To Mitigation At Big Cypress National Preserve

Burnett Oil Co., which environmentalists charge has left miles and miles of deeply rutted tracks and downed vegetation across a northern section of Big Cypress National Preserve, says it is "committed" to repairing the damage and plans to begin next week, a spokeswoman said in a statement to National Parks Traveler.

Cedar Breaks National Monument Road To Open May 15...Weather Allowing

Getting to Cedar Breaks National Monument in Utah by driving can be a challenge most of the year. While Zion, Bryce Canyon, Arches, Canyonlands, and Capitol Reef national parks are all accessible for the spring and summer seasons, winter has kept a stranglehold on the route to Cedar Breaks. That should change by May 15...barring another snowstorm, of course.

Seasonal Hiring In National Park System Impacted By Failure To Follow Rules

National Park Service failure to adhere to Office of Personal Management hiring rules and regulations has created problems with the hiring of seasonal employees this year, though just how great the problems are is unknown. Possibly affected are dozens if not hundreds of interpreters, trail crews, and other park personnel.