There are so many things making up the story of a unit within the National Park System, including plants, animals, and historic buildings. This month’s National Parks Quiz And Trivia edition focuses on some of the vegetation you might see during a national park visit.
“Knowledge is power,” so the saying goes. Just how knowledgeable are you about the units of the National Park System? You may know more than you realize, and you can put your knowledge to the test with this latest quiz and trivia piece.
Big Thicket National Preserve invites you to participate in the park's winter planting events. Volunteers can join park staff and partners to plant longleaf pine trees and native grasses in January and February in the preserve’s Big Sandy Creek Unit.
Happy New Year! It’s time to hone your national parks knowledge with this first quiz and trivia piece of 2025. You may know more than you realize. And if you want to learn more, check out the many National Park Service Instagram accounts, from which came most of the material for these questions and trivia.
A decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to downlist the red-cockaded woodpecker from being endangered to threatened has been criticized as being premature and ignorant of climate-change threats to the species.
Big Thicket National Preserve in Texas has three planting events this winter that you can help make a success. Volunteers can join park staff and partners to plant native grasses in December, January, and February in the Big Sandy Creek Unit.
Big Thicket National Preserve in Texas is one of the National Park System units in the path of the annular solar eclipse next month and park staff are offering solar-filtered telescopes and eclipse glasses for safe viewing, ranger programs, and a sneak peek at the preserve's 50th anniversary celebrations in 2024.
Work is underway in Big Thicket National Preserve in Texas to plug two orphaned oil wells, work that was made possible with $550,000 from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.