By the Numbers: Grand Canyon National Park
Extraordinary parks tend to generate extraordinary numbers, and Grand Canyon is no exception.
- September 8th, 2009
Grand Canyon National Park
Updated: Search Continues for Missing Hiker at Grand Canyon National Park
Additional resources have been added in the search for a 43-year-old North Carolina man thought to be missing at Grand Canyon National Park. Park officials are seeking the assistance of anyone who has visited the park within the last week and might have information on his whereabouts.
Traffic Changes This Week at the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park
Work is underway at Grand Canyon National Park's South Rim to help ease traffic congestion, but "progress" will mean a detour and parking changes for the next few days. Here's what you need to know if you're visiting the South Rim this week.
Search Under Way for Missing Hiker in Grand Canyon National Park
A search was under way Sunday for a 43-year-old North Carolina man thought to be missing in the Grand Canyon National Park.
Officials Working to Ensure Recovery Of Endangered Fishes In Upper Colorado River Basin
A longstanding problem for fisheries in the Upper Colorado River Basin is the competing demands for water. It's needed for irrigation, it's needed to generate power, and it's needed, not surprisingly, to sustain fisheries. With drought a frequent visitor to the states of Wyoming, Colorado and Utah, how that huge watershed is cooperatively managed is critical for all these demands.
Upon Further Review: "Where's the Spare?"
Any career which involves regular contact with the "general public" includes situations which put the employee's sense of humor to a serious test. Those oft-envied park ranger jobs are no exception, as illustrated by the following story related to me years ago by a fellow ranger at Grand Canyon National Park.
Translocation Project Aids Endangered Humpback Chub in Grand Canyon National Park
The Park Service has introduced a satellite population of humpback chub into a Colorado River tributary. Time will tell if this translocation project and related recovery efforts can halt this endangered fish’s slow drift toward extinction.
National Park Geologic Sites Draw Raves and Rants
Smithsonian high-fives the parks and Yahoo! Travel flips the bird.
Did You Hear the One About President Obama's Trip To Yellowstone National Park?
August, thanks to its hot and humid nature in the political capital of the universe, Washington, D.C., usually is the time politicians head to the hinterlands. And while most presidents see the month as their own opportunity to escape the bluster and fury of Washington, President Obama decided to take the opportunity not to flee the spotlight, but take it with him on his windshield tours of Yellowstone and Grand Canyon national parks.
Reader Participation Day, Fine Arts Division: Thomas Moran, Albert Bierstadt, or Maynard Dixon?
If cost were no object, whose national park painting would you hang on your wall? Would it be a Thomas Moran, an Albert Bierstadt, or a Maynard Dixon?
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