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Carl Hayden Visitor Center to Open 7 Days a Week
News Release: Starting May 21, the Carl Hayden Visitor Center will be open 7 days a week, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (MST). The visitor center is located on Highway 89 at Glen Canyon Dam near Page, Ariz. It is operated by the Bureau of Reclamation in collaboration with the National Park Service and Glen Canyon Conservancy.
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Information Panel: Turning The Tide
News Release: The Confederate army had been fighting for time. Efforts to delay the enemy's advance bought that time in blood - essential hours that allowed Southern reinforcements to reach the battlefield. Many regiments marched up from defensive positions downstram. Others had just disembarked from trains at Manassas Junction. All moved rapidly to the front - many by following the growing sound of battle.
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Informational Panel: The Stand In Robinson Lane
News Release: Colonel Wade Hampton's infantry occupied the Warrenton Turnpike in front of the Robinson farm as the Confederate position on Matthews Hill collapsed. Having arrived at Manassas Junction earlier that morning after a 30-hour train ride from Richmond, the 600 exhausted South Carolinians stood as the only organized Confederate resistance then on the field.
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Steamtown National Historic Site’s Railfest and Anthracite Heritage Museum’s Arts on Fire to return on Saturday, June 17, 2023
News Release: Scranton, PA - Celebrate the area’s industrial heritage with the return of Steamtown National Historic Site’s Railfest and Pennsylvania Anthracite Heritage Museum’s Arts on Fire on Saturday, June 17, 2023. Both sites are excited to be collaborating to provide an interactive experience showcasing our...
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Agencies reach agreement over Jackson Lake Dam
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.
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BLM to conduct controlled burn south of Boise for investigation training
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - The Bureau of Land Management plans to ignite a series of small, controlled burns about three miles south of Boise as part of the Wildland Fire Origin and Cause Determination training course. This joint training effort will occur on May 22, and include firefighters working together from various city, state and federal agencies.
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Grizzly Monitoring to Begin in Glacier Park
News Release: WEST GLACIER, Mont. [May 18, 2023] - Glacier National Park is participating in an interagency effort led by Montana Fish, Wildlife and Park to monitor grizzly bear population trends in the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem using bait stations, automated cameras, and traps to capture and monitor grizzly bears inside the park.
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Shenandoah National Park ceremony celebrates donation of nearly 1,000 acres to the park
News Release: In a mountainside dedication ceremony on May 18, Shenandoah National Park officially commemorated the 2022 donation of nearly 1,000 acres of land from the Shenandoah National Park Trust. The historic donation is the result of a collaboration with partners from local, state, and national levels.
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Information Panel: Invaded Farmland
News Release: Spring Hill Farm - now simply known as Henry Hill - lay fallow and overgrown in the summer of 1861. A small vegetable garden and orchard surrounded the frame house. Inside the home, 84-year-old Judith Henry remained bedridden, too old to work the land that had been in her family for more than a century. She shared the home with her daughter Ellen. A hired teenage slave, Lucy Griffith, assisted with domestic chores.
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Information Panel: Confederates Rally
News Release: Many Confederates felt they had lost the battle - perhaps the war. At that moment Generals Joseph E. Johnston and P. G. T. Beauregard arrived on Henry Hill and began to rally the scattered regiments. The fugitives started to reform behind fresh reinforcements that deployed along the edge of the woods. Men and horses muscled thirteen cannon to the front.
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Wadeable Stream Monitoring at Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area
News Release: I’m not a scientist. But several weeks ago, I tagged along with a group of scientists to survey a stream in the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area. Studying wadeable stream habitats is part of the National Park Service’s Inventory and Monitoring Division’s effort to evaluate the condition of...
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Information Panel: Like A Stone Wall
News Release: Confederate reinforcements deployed into battle line at the edge of the woods behind you. Anchoring the center of this new position stood a brigade of Virginians - 2,500 strong - under the command of General Thomas J. Jackson. When told the enemy was driving the Confederates, Jackson calmly replied, "We will give them the bayonet.".
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2023 Helicopter Supported Wilderness Projects
News Release: Sedro Woolley, WA-Several projects with helicopter support will begin this season in the Stephen Mather Wilderness as snow levels recede. Time and distance of flights over and around wilderness will be minimized whenever possible. Flight dates are subject to change depending on weather and other safety factors.
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The BLM extends withdrawal for protection of the historic town of Rhyolite
News Release: Nye County, NV. - The Bureau of Land Management today announced publication of a Public Land Order that extends the withdrawal of public lands in the historic town of Rhyolite for another 20 years. Extension of the withdrawal supports BLM management of 277.05 acres of public lands for the protection of Rhyolite historic site.
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Practice Run for Park-wide Water-Quality Assessment at Carolina Coastal Parks
News Release: Soil and Water Tour. Practice makes perfect. That’s the mantra of Eric Starkey and Daniel McCay the SECNs aquatic ecologist and hydrologic technician. To prepare for their Park-wide water quality Assessment at Cape Hatteras and Cape Lookout National Seashores in July, the pair traveled about an hour...
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Information Panel: Flight From Matthews Hill
News Release: The First Battle of Manassas started on Matthews Hill - the prominent rise one-half mile ahead of you. Thousands of Federals were swiftly advancing in this direction. Confederate Capt. John Imboden rushed four cannon into position near here to try and slow the Federal attack. The artillerists fired at top speed, knowing it would take massive reinforcements to stop the Yankees.
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Information Panel: Point Blank Volley
News Release: Captain Charles Griffin's cannon, a section of Battery D, 5th U.S. Artillery, fired only two rounds when an unidentified line of infantry approached from the fence ahead. Who were they? Griffin proclaimed them the enemy. His commanding officer, the army's chief of artillery, disagreed. Reassured, the gunners resumed firing on the Confederate artillery in the distance.
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Importance of lava tubes described in park’s latest Hawaiian cultural video, ‘Ohi Wai
News Release: HAWAII NATIONAL PARK, Hawaiʻi - A new documentary produced by Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park reveals the importance of lava tubes, both culturally and as ecosystems. The short film also shares Hawaiian culture to a broad audience during Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.
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Information Panel: Artillery Duel
News Release: General Irvin McDowell felt confident that victory was at hand. The Federal flanking column had marched around and behind the Confederate defenses along Bull Run. Nearly 18,000 troops were at, or en route, to the front. Confederate resistance on Matthews Hill had collapsed. After a two-hour delay to reorganize his available men, the Union commander turned his attention to pressing the retreating foe and occupying Henry Hill.
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Information Panel: War Time Henry Hill
News Release: Shortly after the Confederate army left the area, Northern photographers ventured out to the battlefield to document the landscape. George Barnard captured this image of Henry Hill in March 1862 from approximately where you now stand. Only ruins remained of the Henry house. War returned to this ground later that summer, when the battle-scarred farm witnessed the climactic fighting of Second Manassas.