National Parks Quiz And Trivia #52: Water
It’s August, summer, and hot in many units within the National Park System. So, this month’s quiz and trivia piece is all about water and its many forms.
- August 15th, 2022
Everglades National Park
Repairing The Parks In The Age Of Climate Change
Climate-change driven events are proving costly for the National Park Service, as impacts from drought, flooding, and landslides in just the past year are expected to cost nearly $2 billion to address, and that comes on top of hundreds of millions of dollars the agency unexpectedly needed from Congress in the past decade to address other weather-related impacts.
- By Kurt Repanshek - August 7th, 2022
Group Says National Park Service Will Miss Deadlines For Air Tour Plans
National parks across the country continue to lag behind a court-ordered schedule to complete air-tour management plans and are failing to conduct environmentally required studies as they develop those plans, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility.
Is The River Of Grass Actually A River?
In the late 1940s, Marjory Stoneman Douglas poetically labeled the Everglades a “River of Grass” in her renowned book. This brings up an interesting question: Is the River of Grass a river or just a poetic name?
National Parks Quiz And Trivia #51
It’s time to test those national park mental muscles with Quiz and Trivia #51. Find out how much you really know about units within the National Park System.
- July 16th, 2022
National Park Service, FAA Ordered To Explain Delays With Air Tour Plans
A federal appellate court has given the National Park Service and Federal Aviation Administration until late July to explain why they are so behind in crafting air-tour management plans for many units of the National Park System.
Progress Among The Paperbarks
The war against invasive vegetation is long and uncertain, but Everglades National Park is winning one important battle.
National Parks Quiz And Trivia #50
There’s always something to learn about the park units within the National Park System. Take this latest National Parks Traveler quiz and trivia piece and see just how much you really know, while maybe learning a little in the process.
- June 13th, 2022
National Parks Traveler Webinar | Slough Slogs And Park Funding
One of the best hikes in Everglades National Park is a slough slog into a cypress dome. Ranger Yvette Cano, the park's education director, explains what such a hike is like, and then she and Frank Dean, president and CEO of the Yosemite Conservancy, explain the challenges of funding educational and interpretive programs in the parks. They often are not part of a park's government-funded budget.
South American Invaders Trying To Gain Foothold In Everglades
Chicken eggs are pretty good chum, but alligator and crocodile eggs, sea turtle eggs, and even bird eggs are also high on the menu for black-and-white Argentine tegus, a lizard that arrived in Florida through the pet store trade and is threatening to upend Everglades National Park's ecosystems.
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