Interior Newswire News
Grandview Area of New River Gorge National Park and Preserve to Temporarily Close for Road Paving
By Interior Newswire | May 18, 2023
News Release: Glen Jean, WV - New River Gorge National Park and Preserve Superintendent Charles Sellars announces that there will be a temporary closure of the Grandview area of the park as roads are being resurfaced. Work will begin on the main road leading into the park on Monday, May 22, and is estimated to take...
Wagon Wheel Overlook
By Interior Newswire | May 18, 2023
News Release: From the Wagon Wheel Overlook you can look out across the Yampa River as it winds its way through dramatic weber sandstone canyons. To access the overlook, visitors must drive along the Yampa Bench Road which requires high clearance and 4x4 capability. The overlook is a short walk off of the pullout area.
Reminder for Virgin Islands National Park’s Cruz Bay Visitor Center and Bulkhead Repairs
By Interior Newswire | May 18, 2023
News Release: As a reminder, the next phase of repairs to the National Park Service’s Cruz Bay Visitor Center, bulkhead, and finger pier will begin next week on Tuesday, May 23, 2023.
The Bartow Monument
By Interior Newswire | May 18, 2023
News Release: Information Panel: The Bartow Monument. Colonel Francis S. Bartow was killed near here while leading the 7th Georgia Infantry in a counterattack. An ardent defender of slavery and state's rights, the Georgia politician was placed in command of a brigade of state troops shortly before the battle. His...
Join us in observance of Memorial Day at Antietam National Battlefield
By Interior Newswire | May 18, 2023
News Release: SHARPSBURG, Md. - On Monday, May 29, 2023, starting at 11:00 a.m., the National Park Service (NPS) will present a Memorial Day Program at Antietam National Cemetery. The Cemetery is located on Rt. 34, just east of Sharpsburg, MD.
Great Smoky Mountains National Park and City of Gatlinburg launch bilingual Storybook Trails of the Smokies
By Interior Newswire | May 18, 2023
News Release: GATLINBURG, Tenn.-Great Smoky Mountains National Park, City of Gatlinburg--Parks and Recreation, Great Smoky Mountains Association, and Sevier County School System are launching bilingual Storybook Trails across public parks on Friday, May 19, 2023. A Storybook Trail is a fun, educational outdoor activity that takes the pages from a children’s book and places them on signs along trails.
Plan Your Visit to the 2022 Anacostia River Festival
By Interior Newswire | May 18, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON-The National Park Service and the 11th Street Bridge Park present the ninth annual Anacostia River Festival, a premier event of the National Cherry Blossom Festival. The festival is Saturday, May 20th from 1-4 pm at Anacostia Park off Good Hope Road & Anacostia Drive SE.
Public comment sought on proposed utility improvements in Death Valley
By Interior Newswire | May 18, 2023
News Release: DEATH VALLEY, Calif. - Staff in Death Valley National Park are dealing with increasing numbers of water and wastewater system breaks. Water systems failed 45 times and there were five major sewer leaks last year. The National Park Service (NPS) has funding from the Great American Outdoors Act to rehabilitate the water and wastewater systems at Furnace Creek and Cow Creek in 2024. The NPS is seeking public feedback on this project proposal.
BLM and Wyoming Honor Farm partnership going strong after 35 years
By Interior Newswire | May 18, 2023
News Release: RIVERTON, Wyo. - The Wyoming Department of Corrections Wyoming Honor Farm and the Bureau of Land Management celebrated their 35-year partnership last weekend in Riverton with a successful wild horse and burro adoption. Since 1988, the team has placed more than 5,000 gentled animals into new homes.
BLM builds trails and community with Tribal youth programs
By Interior Newswire | May 18, 2023
News Release: Molalla, OR - On a cloudy morning in early May, Bureau of Land Management staff joined students from the Chemawa Indian School on a trail maintenance project as part of the Indian Youth Service Corps initiative. The meeting was about much more than the project at hand.
BLM seeks public input on campsite maintenance plan
By Interior Newswire | May 18, 2023
News Release: CAÑON CITY, COLO. - The Royal Gorge Field Office is accepting public comment on a business plan designed to address maintenance costs associated with a rapidly increasing use of facilities operated and maintained by the Bureau of Land Management. The business plan proposes a new fee structure for the...
Park Receives Bill McGaffee Memorial Region Strong Award
By Interior Newswire | May 18, 2023
News Release: Over 800,00 visitors to Cumberland Gap National Historical Park spent a whopping $57.8 million in surrounding areas in 2021. No wonder the park was just awarded the Bill McGaffee Memorial Region Strong Award for community and tourism development!.
Agencies reach agreement over Jackson Lake Dam
By Interior Newswire | May 18, 2023
News Release: CHEYENNE, Wyo. - The State of Wyoming and the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) have reached an agreement on water management operations for the Upper Snake River basin that will avoid impacts to fisheries below the Jackson Lake Dam in Grand Teton National Park.
Missing marksmanship medals returned to Springfield Armory National Historic Site
By Interior Newswire | May 18, 2023
News Release: BOSTON - Earlier today, the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts, the Boston Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the National Park Service held a ceremony to mark the return of the late-19th century marksmanship medals that went missing from the Springfield Armory, a national historic site located in Springfield, Mass., in the 1990s.
Public input sought on draft air tour management plan for Haleakalā National Park
By Interior Newswire | May 17, 2023
News Release: Haleakalā National Park, Kula, Maui - The National Park Service (NPS) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) are seeking public feedback on a draft Air Tour Management Plan (ATMP) and associated environmental assessment that are being proposed for Haleakalā National Park.
3D Virtual Tours
By Interior Newswire | May 17, 2023
News Release: Want to take a virtual behind the scenes tour of Eisenhower National Historic Site and Gettysburg National Military Park?
The Archeology of Sixteenth-Century Cross-Cultural Encounters in Point Reyes National Seashore
By Interior Newswire | May 17, 2023
News Release: In the late 1500s, indigenous hunter-gatherers on the northern California coast met Spanish and English voyagers for the first time. The Coast Miwok living in the northern San Francisco Bay Area at the time were not an isolated people. They had long been in contact with other California Indian groups...
DOI-USGS1 offers new grant application process starting May 17
By Interior Newswire | May 17, 2023
Cooperative Agreement for CESU-affiliated Partner with Gulf Coast Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit grant opened on May 17.
Grand Teton National Park releases 2023 Annual Report
By Interior Newswire | May 17, 2023
News Release: MOOSE, WY- Grand Teton National Park’s 2023 Annual Report is now available. The report shares updates in each of the park’s strategic emphasis areas and highlights the amazing accomplishments of park staff, volunteers and partners who work diligently to support efforts of land, water and wildlife preservation in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
Sun Point Pueblo
By Interior Newswire | May 17, 2023
News Release: This was one of the last mesa-top pueblos to be built at Mesa Verde: a 30-room village with a large kiva and tower connected by a tunnel at its center.