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University of California, Berkeley
By Interior Newswire | Apr 28, 2023
News Release: While in California managing the Mariposa Estate gold mine, Frederick Law Olmsted asked in 1865 by the trustees of the College of California to draw up a plan for a campus and residential area on grounds that were once used as a farm. After visiting the site in the foothills of San Francisco Bay, Olmsted proposed a plan where students live in cottages arranged in a picturesque style, with meandering roads and paths around them.
Royal Gorge Field Office rescinds stage 1 fire restrictions
By Interior Newswire | Apr 28, 2023
News Release: CAÑON CITY, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management’s Royal Gorge Field Office has rescinded stage 1 fire restrictions on all BLM-administered public lands within the boundaries of Baca, Bent, Crowley, Custer, El Paso, Fremont, Huerfano, Kiowa, Las Animas, Lincoln, Otero, Park, Prowers, Pueblo, and Teller counties.
The Joshua Tree National Park Herbarium
By Interior Newswire | Apr 28, 2023
News Release: "A Collection of Plants". The first person to press plants flat, dry them, and bind the specimens in a book for future study was a 16th-century Italian botanist. The practice caught on in Europe, where the books were called “herbaria.". But the noted botanist Carl Linnaeus, working in the 1700s, found...
Bureau of Land Management to begin NEPA process for the Bonanza Solar Project Application
By Interior Newswire | Apr 28, 2023
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management has completed the variance process for the Bonanza Solar Project, a major early step in the application process for solar energy development that allows the BLM to fully consider the project under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The BLM’s decision to advance the project to the next stage of review comes after close coordination with Tribal governments, appropriate Federal, State, and local agencies, and public outreach.
The Doll House
By Interior Newswire | Apr 28, 2023
News Release: This small building was called Swan Cottage when it was first built in 1935 by FDR's mother, Sara Roosevelt, for use by her grandchildren. At that time, it was located on a graveled walk about 300 yards southeast of the Big House, Springwood. New York arhitect Charles Short designed the house. The original...
Val-Kill Cottages
By Interior Newswire | Apr 28, 2023
News Release: Stopping here for a moment gives you an opportunity to view the historic core of her former property, buildings with great stories to tell!.
Stanford University
By Interior Newswire | Apr 28, 2023
News Release: When Leland Stanford Sr.’s son died of typhoid fever at the age of 15, the railroad tycoon felt the best way to honor his son would be to dedicate a new college in his honor. Stanford wanted the best, so for the grounds of his campus, he hired Frederick Law Olmsted.
Lake Washington Boulevard
By Interior Newswire | Apr 28, 2023
News Release: The longest and most significant boulevard in John Charles Olmsted’s Seattle Park System, Lake Washington Boulevard extends six miles, linking nine Olmsted Parks together. First proposed in Olmsted Brothers’ 1903 report, they recommended the Boulevard stretch beyond Seattle’s limits towards water.
Reclamation hosts Bring a Kid to Work Day event; showcases water, hydropower mission
By Interior Newswire | Apr 28, 2023
News Release: DENVER, Colo. - The Bureau of Reclamation hosted a Bring a Kid to Work Day event at the Technical Service Center, April 27, from 9 a.m.-noon.
University of Mississippi
By Interior Newswire | Apr 28, 2023
News Release: Years before Frederick Law Olmsted Sr. had even begun his career as a landscape architect, the grounds for the University of Mississippi had already been landscaped. Completed in 1848, the campus was made of a parklike octagonal green space, surrounded by institutional structures. Like many successful schools, enrollment increased, and the campus became too small to house its student body.
Shark Valley area will be closed May 6-23 for repaving
By Interior Newswire | Apr 28, 2023
News Release: From May 6 to 23, the entire Shark Valley area at Everglades National Park will be closed day and night to all visitors for repaving of the entrance road, parking lot, and 15-mile tram road. The closure is necessary to ensure public safety during construction activities with heavy equipment and to enable the road surface to cure properly.
The Climb to Top Cottage
By Interior Newswire | Apr 28, 2023
News Release: Situated at the peak of a hill, with a commanding view of Hyde Park, is Top Cottage, a modest home where kings and queens and heads of state met with the President, their discussions shaping modern history.
A Walk Through Time
By Interior Newswire | Apr 28, 2023
News Release: The naturally stony soil produces a crop of fieldstone once gathered by land dwellers to build walls that defined their fields and property lines. Today, it is a place for you to stop and consider your surroundings.
Tennis Court
By Interior Newswire | Apr 28, 2023
News Release: Earl Miller supervised the construction of the tennis court for Eleanor Roosevelt in 1950. Two courses of black top were laid over six inches of compacted gravel. The wire backstops were installed at the same time. With he picnic fireplace, doll house, swimming pool, and stables, the tennis court provided...
Pea Ridge National Military Park Presents Program about The Sultana Disaster
By Interior Newswire | Apr 28, 2023
News Release: Pea Ridge National Military Park to present a special program “The Sultana Disaster: Prisons, Greed, and Espionage" Friday, April 28, 6:00-7:15 P.M.
Park rangers searching for missing man near Deep Creek
By Interior Newswire | Apr 28, 2023
News Release: GATLINBURG, Tenn.-Great Smoky Mountains National Park rangers are searching for a 69-year-old man in the Deep Creek area of the park. Gordon Kaye from Tampa, FL was last seen in the lower loop of Deep Creek Campground on Saturday, April 22. His family reported him missing yesterday, April 26.
Blue Ridge Parkway begins major road project in northwest North Carolina
By Interior Newswire | Apr 28, 2023
News Release: LAUREL SPRINGS, N.C. - Road closures related to a major infrastructure project are set to begin May 1 in a 75-mile section of the Blue Ridge Parkway from milepost 229.6, just north of Doughton Park, to milepost 305.1, near Grandfather Mountain.
Frink Park
By Interior Newswire | Apr 28, 2023
News Release: In his 1903 report on Seattle’s Parks, John Charles Olmsted proposed the ambitious undertaking of acquiring an entire length of steeply sloped area for park purposes, cautioning locals of the land’s unsuitability for a subdivision development. John Charles believed that “Houses will probably continue...
Tufts University
By Interior Newswire | Apr 28, 2023
News Release: Olmsted Brothers were hired by Tufts University in the 1920s to consult on the growth of the campus. The school had grown from a small liberal arts college to a top-tier research university, housing a significantly larger student population.
San Juan Islands Monument Advisory Committee to meet May 4
By Interior Newswire | Apr 28, 2023
News Release: San Juan Islands, WA - The San Juan Islands National Monument Advisory Committee (MAC) will hold a meeting May 4, 2023. The meeting will be held virtually from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.; the public is welcome to attend using the Zoom link.