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Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area Ravaged By Wildfire

As containment of the Woolsey Fire in California nears 50 percent, the extent of damage to Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, its wildlife, and its historic structures, is becoming more clear. Nearly 90 percent of the NRA has been blackened by the fire, with such historic structures as the Morrison Ranch House and Western Town at the Paramount Ranch destroyed.

Experience Winter, Minnesota Style, At Voyageurs National Park

Winter is a cold, snowy, and decidedly solitary season at Voyageurs National Park, where fellow visitors can be hard to spot. Take December 2017, for instance. The park recorded just 110 visitors, down from 196 a year earlier. But if you relish skimming through the woods on skis or snowmobiles, like to study tracks of what crossed the meadows and frozen ponds, or crave to see the dancing Northern Lights overhead, well, a visit to Voyageurs should be given serious consideration.

Maine Preservation Officials And National Park Service Have Different Views Of McGlashan-Nickerson House

A 135-year-old house at Saint Croix International Historic Site is considered architecturally significant by Maine preservationists, but deemed excess property by the National Park Service, which wants someone to buy it and move it to another location.

Shiloh National Military Park To Redesign Exhibits In Visitor Center

Interpreting, and presenting, history is a key role of the National Park Service. So while the prospect of designing new exhibits for the Shiloh National Military Park visitor center might sound relatively ho-hum, the opportunity to update 30-year-old exhibits describing and explaining the events that occurred at Shiloh in 1862 is enticing.