Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Teen Gored By Bison At Theodore Roosevelt National Park

A teenager from Colorado was gored in the thigh and tossed into the air at Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota by a bull bison that just moments earlier had been fighting with another bull.

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July 29th, 2019

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North Dakota Court Declines To Block Refinery Near Theodore Roosevelt National Park

A state district court has upheld a decision by the North Dakota Department of Health to permit an oil refinery a small handful of miles from the main entrance to Theodore Roosevelt National Park.

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January 25th, 2019

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Some National Parks Beginning To Struggle With Garbage, Snow During Shutdown

With no maintenance crews available during the government shutdown, some parks are closing campgrounds due to overflowing garbage while others are closing roads due to snowy conditions.

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December 26th, 2018

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Annual Dakota Nights Astronomy Festival Coming To Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Theodore Roosevelt National Park and the town of historic Medora, North Dakota, are hosting the sixth annual Dakota Nights Astronomy Festival this Friday through Sunday. You can join park rangers, astronomers, and space enthusiasts of all types to celebrate North Dakota’s night skies.

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September 4th, 2018

Traveler Special Report: Mixing Energy Development And National Parks

While the U.S. Bureau of Land Management recently deferred the auction of oil and gas leases near Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve in Colorado, the issue of energy development is not dead there, nor in many other areas of the National Park System. Contributor John Miles takes a look at the state of oil and gas exploration in the park system in this article.

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July 15th, 2018

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Legal Effort Launched To Stop Oil Refinery Near Theodore Roosevelt National Park

A small coalition of groups has come together to challenge the legality of the permit issued for an oil refinery that would operate within a few miles of the south entrance to Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota.

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July 13th, 2018

Celebrating The CCC In The National Parks

“National Parks of the Country Will Ring with Sound of Conservation Workers.” So read a headline in the May 20, 1933, edition of the Happy Days newspaper, the official publication of the newly formed Civilian Conservation Corps. And it was true: Established in March of that year, the corps became the most popular and enduring of President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal “make-work” programs.

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March 4th, 2018

National Park Service Has Air Quality Concerns With Refinery Proposed Near Theodore Roosevelt NP

While National Park Service air quality analysts don't think an oil refinery proposed near Theodore Roosevelt National Park would pose a problem under normal operating conditions, they are concerned that visibility could be impacted by "upset conditions" and want North Dakota officials to do additional review of the company's permit application.

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January 31st, 2018

Counting Birds In Death Valley And Theodore Roosevelt National Parks

'Tis the season for counting birds in the national parks, and both Death Valley and Theodore Roosevelt national parks will be offering outings next Saturday to tally birds in their parks.

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December 11th, 2017

Exploring Winter’s Wonders In The National Park System

It started in mid-September; a few flakes began to flutter across the Crown of the Continent in Glacier National Park. The snow since then has slowly spread east and west, north and south. By January the white mantle likely will cover the whole northern tier of the National Park System, from Acadia west to Olympic, south through Rocky Mountain, into Shenandoah and Great Smoky Mountain national parks.

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November 12th, 2017

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