News from July 2023
Paradise Ranger Station Exhibit Panel
By Interior Newswire | Jul 18, 2023
News Release: Title: Paradise Ranger Station. Main Text. For eighty years park rangers used this building as a base for coordinating rescues and protecting park resources. The ranger station still serves this purpose, although it is no longer open to the public. Historically, the first floor was an information center...
Plans Announced for 2023 Federal Subsistence Hunt of Chisana Caribou Herd
By Interior Newswire | Jul 18, 2023
News Release: COPPER CENTER, AK - This week plans for the 2023 federal subsistence hunt for the Chisana caribou herd were announced by Wrangell-St. Elias Superintendent Ben Bobowski, the designated federal manager for the hunt. Consistent with the cooperative management plan for the herd, the harvest quota is 6 bull...
Acknowledgements for The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963
By Interior Newswire | Jul 18, 2023
News Release: Funding for this research and curriculum project came from the Center for Children’s Books at the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Additional financial support was provided by Alabama Public Humanities.
Buffalo at Bent's Old Fort
By Interior Newswire | Jul 18, 2023
News Release: Bison, commonly known as buffalo, were obviously a vital part of the fort’s business as both a food source and commodity for the robe trade), but they also were part of the post’s livestock. Matt Field wrote in 1839, “At Fort William we saw two buffalo calves grazing with the domestic cattle, and displaying...
Temps in the Santa Monica Mountains and coastal areas to reach triple digits this upcoming weekend
By Interior Newswire | Jul 18, 2023
News Release: THOUSAND OAKS, Calif - With temperatures rising into the triple digits in some areas of the Santa Monica Mountains this weekend, National Park Service rangers are urging the public to avoid recreating in the middle of the day when it’s the hottest and to leave their dogs at home.
Draft Damage Assessment Plan for the Anacostia River available for public comment
By Interior Newswire | Jul 18, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON- The National Park Service, on behalf of the Anacostia River Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration (NRDAR) Trustees, invites public comment on a draft Damage Assessment Plan (DAP), which details the Trustees’ proposed approach to conducting a natural resource damage assessment and restoration for the Anacostia River. We encourage the public to review the draft DAP and provide comments through Aug. 16, 2023.
Cutoff Ridge Fire Burning in Guadalupe Mountains National Park
By Interior Newswire | Jul 18, 2023
News Release: GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK, TEXAS - The Cutoff Ridge Fire continues to burn in the Guadalupe Mountains Wilderness, on the western escarpment of the park. The fire is currently 385 acres and is being managed by ground crews with air support.
Woman gored by bison in Yellowstone National Park
By Interior Newswire | Jul 18, 2023
News Release: * A 47-year-old female from Phoenix, Arizona, was gored by a bison near the Lake Lodge Cabins on the north shore of Lake Yellowstone the morning of July 17.
Interior Department discusses Endangered Species; Issuance of Permits on July 17
By Interior Newswire | Jul 18, 2023
The US Interior Department published a three page notice on July 17, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
Play in Post-World War II America
By Interior Newswire | Jul 18, 2023
News Release: Children have always played. But the kinds of play that are most common today - solitary play, electronic play (with videogames or computers), and play organized by adults - were far less common decades ago. In the past, children’s play took place in groups outdoors and occurred spontaneously. Children...
Credit At Grocery Stores
By Interior Newswire | Jul 18, 2023
News Release: Today, when credit card offers pop up on our phones, our computers, our televisions, and, of course, in the mail, it is difficult to understand how scarce credit for urban African Americans was in the past. One form of credit was the grocer’s ledger book. In the 19th century, and well into the 1920s...
Belle Isle Marsh
By Interior Newswire | Jul 18, 2023
News Release: The last remaining salt marsh in the city of Boston, is located in East Boston. Known now as Belle Isle Marsh, this area boasts just over 130- acres of marshland, and is home to more than 250 species of birds. The area is designated as an Important Bird Area by the National Audubon Society, and an Area of Critical Environmental Concern by the Bureau of Land Management. While it might not seem like it, Belle Isle used to be an island.1.
AIS Stations Open July 20 for Boating at Two Medicine and St. Mary Lakes
By Interior Newswire | Jul 18, 2023
News Release: WEST GLACIER, Mont. [July 17, 2023] - In partnership with the Blackfeet Tribe, Glacier National Park announces that Aquatic Invasive Species (AIS) inspection stations will open on July 20, 2023, to provide boating opportunities on Two Medicine and St. Mary Lakes in Glacier National Park for the first time since 2019.
Radio and Postwar Advertising
By Interior Newswire | Jul 18, 2023
News Release: Americans had been listening to the radio for forty years by the early 1960s. Before the end of World War II, however, radio was built around daily or weekly programs that ranged from mysteries to live musical performances. These shows were sponsored by a single advertiser who presented their message...
Traveling While Black
By Interior Newswire | Jul 18, 2023
News Release: Every year when we were out of school for the summer my parents drove us, in our big Ford Station wagon, from our home in New Jersey to visit my grandmother in North Carolina. We could hardly sleep the night before because we were so excited. When we were kids, my brother and I didn’t know that we were...
Agency Information Collection Activities; Geological and Geophysical (G&G) Explorations of the Outer Continental Shelf discussed on July 17 by Interior Department
By Interior Newswire | Jul 18, 2023
The US Interior Department published a four page notice on July 17, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
Paradise Historic District Exhibit Panel
By Interior Newswire | Jul 18, 2023
News Release: Title: Paradise Historic District. Main Text. Since the late 1890s Paradise has served as a base camp for people attracted to the spectacular wildflower meadows and high-mountain recreation. Built between 1916 and 1942, structures at Paradise were designed in an alpine rustic style. Massive timbers and...
Language Variation
By Interior Newswire | Jul 18, 2023
News Release: In Christopher Paul Curtis’ The Watsons Go to Birmingham, “talk about talk" figures prominently among the members of the Watson family, who observe how certain “southernisms" differ from their own midwestern style of speaking.
Hunting in the Mid-20th Century
By Interior Newswire | Jul 18, 2023
News Release: Hunting has been a way for Southerners (and Americans in general) to earn money, to supply food for the table, and to recreate, or have fun, for centuries. During the early 1960s, hunting was a common activity in the South, across racial and socioeconomic lines. Both Black and white, rich and poor, urban...
Post World War II Advertising Aimed At African American Consumers
By Interior Newswire | Jul 18, 2023
News Release: The years following World War II featured a dramatic increase in advertising aimed at African American consumers. Before this period, many companies, especially large corporations, did not pay much attention to this segment of the U.S. consumer market. During the early twentieth century, African Americans were viewed as a rural population with limited money to spend. However, this situation changed as the years progressed.