Backcountry Permits For Sequoia, Kings Canyon Moving To Recreation.gov
Recreation.gov, a website that has drawn complaints from users, will be the portal to obtain backcountry permits in Kings Canyon and Sequoia national parks beginning in 2021.
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Remember Those National Park-Inspired Holiday Ornaments...
Some years ago, 2007 to be exact, President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush honored the National Park Service by making national parks the theme for the White House holiday decorations. That decision spurred an outpouring of artistic talent from around the park system. Unfortunately, those sparkling ornaments were not for sale. This year, though, the Sequoia Parks Conservancy is offering a holiday ornament in celebration of Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks.
- November 30th, 2020
Where Will You Explore Winter In The National Park System?
Winter, the season with cold, snow, short days and long nights, can be a challenging season to explore the National Park System. Yet it also holds surprises that reveal themselves in shimmering lights darting across the night sky, in tracks of what passed the night before across the snowscape, and in congregations of wildlife.
- November 29th, 2020
UC Merced Helps Preserve Sequoia National Park History
With a wildfire bearing down on Sequoia National Park, a decision was made to protect the park's 130-year archival history by moving it to the University of California, Merced, for safekeeping.
- November 17th, 2020
Why Are Mature Sequoias Dying At Kings Canyon, Sequoia, And Yosemite National Parks?
Researchers are trying to determine why some mature sequoia trees in Sequoia and Yosemite national parks have died.
Traveler Special Report: Coping With 21st Century Wildfires
The 1988 wildfires that drew the nation's attention to the world's first national park were considered simply part of the fire regime that historically has existed in Yellowstone National Park. But in the aftermath of the fires, "climate change" entered the country's lexicon and increasingly intense wildfires have forced the National Park Service in the West to both evaluate and refine its approach to battling flames that are arriving with greater and greater ferocity.
On The Doorstep To Sequoia National Park, A Bar Owner Gets Creative To Cope With Covid
In Three Rivers, California, a historically white census-designated place, too small even to be incorporated as a town, a brewer is redefining multicultural dining so his beer hall on the doorstep to Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks can survive the Covid-19 pandemic.
Declines In Whitebark Pine Could Prompt Declines Of Clark's Nutcracker In Parks
Clark's Nutcrackers are ubiquitous to many Western national parks. When you set up camp in the backcountry they are quick to arrive, and they're not shy about begging for a treat or even stealing one. But they could vanish from some of those park settings if whitebark pines vanish, according to new research. And without the birds, new stands of whitebark pine might never get planted.
National Parks Quiz And Trivia #16 – The Road Edition
According to the National Park Service, there are over 5,000 miles of paved roads through the National Park System. Park roads (paved or unpaved) allow us to reach amazing vistas we might not otherwise see within a national park, national monument, or national recreation area. These roads are marvels of construction and merit a nod of appreciation to those builders who may have risked life and limb to ensure completion of that navigable ribbon of gravel or pavement. How many of these roads have you traveled, what have you seen and accessed via these roads, and how much do you know about them?
- September 25th, 2020
Area Evacuation Orders Lead To Closure Of Sequoia National Park
Evacuation orders for Three Rivers, California, due to the SQF fire complex led Tuesday to the closure of Sequoia National Park.
- September 15th, 2020
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