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War of 1812 (Teaching with Historic Places)
News Release: Teaching with Historic Places (TwHP) uses historic places in National Parks and in the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places to enliven history, social studies, geography, civics, and other subjects. TwHP has created a variety of products and activities that help teachers bring historic places into the classroom.
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Pullman Summer Explorers 2023
News Release: Pullman National Historical Park invites Fourth Graders in our community to join the SUMMER EXPLORERS! This free three-day educational experience will be led by our park rangers and will explore how our National Parks enrich us all. For two of the three days we will explore sites outside of the park in the Chicagoland area. Lunch and snacks will be provided.
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Non-War Military History (Teaching with Historic Places)
News Release: Teaching with Historic Places (TwHP) uses historic places in National Parks and in the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places to enliven history, social studies, geography, civics, and other subjects. TwHP has created a variety of products and activities that help teachers bring historic places into the classroom.
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Park rangers and local responders suppress wildland fire at Acadia National Park
News Release: Bar Harbor, Maine - On Sunday, April 25, at around 3:30 pm, park rangers and fire resources responded to reports of a wildland fire along the St. Sauveur hiking trail in Acadia National Park. Fire departments from Southwest Harbor, Bar Harbor, Lamoine, Mount Desert, Tremont, and Trenton responded to...
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Assateague Island National Seashore Reopens Life of the Marsh and Life of the Forest Trails, and Changes Speed Limits
News Release: Berlin MD- We are pleased to announce that construction is complete, and the Life of the Marsh Trail and the Life of the Forest Trail are now open. Construction on these trails has been in progress since the fall in an effort to make them more accessible to all visitors, to improve the overall visitor experience on the trails and to increase the lifetime of the trails.
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50 Nifty Finds #23: Second Wind
News Release: Many people begin second careers later in life, but few can claim to have defined a professional field and influenced how generations of National Park Service (NPS) visitors experienced their national parks in the process. Freeman Tilden was 59 when he turned his attention to national parks. He is widely...
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Trail of Tears National Historic Trail Spring Newsletter 2023
News Release: Read the latest project updates and completions from the National Trails Office (NTIR) of the National Park Service (NPS).
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Charles Russell Lowell Memorial
News Release: A monument in downtown Middletown, Viriginia, commemorates Charles Russell Lowell, a US Army cavalry commander killed at the Battle of Cedar Creek. The inscription reads.
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A Lifelong Connection to National Parks
News Release: What does it mean to have a connection to a National Park? How about having a connection so deep to the park that you work 50 years there, retire, and then still want to be connected that you start volunteering? And that is exactly what Ranger Paul did!.
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Prince William Forest Park to pilot cashless payment starting May 1st
News Release: TRIANGLE, Va. - Prince William Forest Park will begin a three-month pilot for cashless entrance fee collection starting May 1. The park anticipates that moving to a cashless system will allow the park to be a better steward of visitor dollars by reducing transaction times, reducing the amount of time park staff spend managing cash, improving accountability and reducing the chances of errors.
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NAMA Notebook: Lincoln's Legacy
News Release: When I am out in the park with students, I will often start by asking them what they know about the site we are visiting or the person memorialized there. I received a typical response when I met a group of students at the Lincoln Memorial this week. "What do you know about Lincoln?" I asked. "He was...
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Burrow on over to Bryce Canyon for Utah Prairie Dog Day
News Release: No celebration of Bryce Canyon’s centennial year would be complete without a special day for one of its keystone species. Utah Prairie Dog Day will return on Thursday, May 11 and feature ranger-led prairie dog viewing, family-friendly activity booths and a special keynote presentation by Keith Day, former...
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Stronger Together: Monitoring Meadow Communities in a Time of Change
News Release: A rolled leaf here. A woody shrub, not yet fruiting. A bud about to peel open, glowing purple from within. Up in the subalpine meadows of Mount Rainier, life bursts from the tiniest corners, in some of the harshest environments. Hundreds of plant species live crowded together in a narrow band of elevation above where the trees thin out and below where the glaciers begin.
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BLM seeks public comments on use of additional herbicide active ingredients for vegetation treatments on public lands
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Bureau of Land Management has published a draft programmatic environmental impact statement and is seeking public input on the analysis of seven herbicide active ingredients to control noxious weeds and invasive species on public lands. A notice of availability will publish tomorrow...
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Interior Department’s Office of Native Hawaiian Relations Announces $1 Million in NATIVE Act Funding for Native Hawaiian Organizations
News Release: HONOLULU - The Department of the Interior’s Office of Native Hawaiian Relations today announced $1 million in funding for Native Hawaiian organizations through the Heritage Opportunities in Hawaiʻi (HŌʻIHI) Grant Program. The funding is made possible by the Native American Tourism and Improving Visitor Experience (NATIVE) Act, which has enabled Indigenous communities to participate in national tourism goals and strategies.
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Federal agencies approve eastern Idaho phosphate mine plan
News Release: SODA SPRINGS, Idaho-The Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management Idaho Falls District and U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Caribou-Targhee National Forest are each releasing a record of decision approving the Husky 1 North Dry Ridge Mine and Reclamation Plan. These decisions will help address the national demand for phosphate-based fertilizer products; roughly 25% of domestically produced phosphate is mined in southeastern Idaho.
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Author Alix Christie Presents "The Shining Mountains" at Fort Vancouver Visitor Center on April 29th
News Release: Vancouver, WA - On April 29th at 1pm, join the Friends of Vancouver in hosting author Alix Christie and introducing her new book, "The Shining Mountains".
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My Park Story: National Parks as Places of Healing
News Release: “Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature - the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.".
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The Road to Chancellorsville
News Release: After the Battle of Fredericksburg, the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia under General Robert E. Lee spent the winter of 1862 into 1863 holding onto their defenses in Fredericksburg. General Thomas “Stonewall" Jackson’s army corps camped around Guinea Station on the Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad. The railroad station once stood alongside the railroad tracks near the intersection with modern-day Stonewall Jackson Road.
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Illegal Hunting Activity in Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: Hunting and trapping are national pastimes and have been since Native Americans first settled the mountains and valleys of East Tennessee. Every year, many venture out to private and public lands to harvest small and big game. The US Forest Service allows hunting on 650,000 acres...