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The Front
By Interior Newswire | Apr 27, 2023
News Release: Overlooking Lake Erie, The Front was a key part of the nation’s first park and parkway system designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux for Buffalo, New York in 1868. The most formal of the three parks linked by parkways, Olmsted saw The Front as a spot with “a character of magnificence admirably adapted to be associated with stately ceremonies, the entertainment of public guests, and other occasions of civic display.".
Featured Artists to Attend Fire and Ice Native American Art and Dance Gathering May 20-21, 2023
By Interior Newswire | Apr 27, 2023
News Release: Grants, NM- This week El Malpais National Monument is highlighting four of the artists participating in the Fire and Ice Native American Art and Dance Gathering on Saturday and Sunday, May 20 and 21, 2023. This free event will run from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm each day at the El Malpais Visitor Center located at 1900 East Santa Fe Avenue in Grants, NM. The artists featured this week are Beth and George Nez, Robert Torres, and Edwin Lente.
Olympic National Park begins project to improve bridges throughout the national park
By Interior Newswire | Apr 27, 2023
News Release: PORT ANGELES, Wash. - In spring 2023, Olympic National Park will be starting a project to address deferred maintenance on several road bridges throughout the park. Visitors to the national park during the construction period should anticipate bridge closures or delays.
Alcove Spring Exhibits Audio Description
By Interior Newswire | Apr 27, 2023
News Release: A Spring Camp Exhibit Audio Description.
Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park will move to cashless fee collection starting May 26
By Interior Newswire | Apr 27, 2023
News Release: HAWAII NATIONAL PARK, Hawaiʻi - Planning to visit Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park this summer? Don’t bring cash.
Maplewood Park (New Jersey)
By Interior Newswire | Apr 27, 2023
News Release: Community leaders of Maplewood, New Jersey (originally part of South Orange) were eager to create a recreational area for their residents. In 1922, community members reached out to Olmsted Brothers, requesting a general plan for their new park. The plan for the new park included a pond, playfields, tennis courts, and a memorial to those lost in WWI.
Patterson Park
By Interior Newswire | Apr 27, 2023
News Release: Between 1905 and 1918, Olmsted Brothers developed plans for new sections of Baltimore’s Patterson Park that would lead to a 20-acre extension of relatively level land. Olmsted Brothers’ principal designs for the new section of park included active recreation facilities like a field house, swimming beach and bath house, playground, field house, and ball fields. All the facilities at Patterson Park are surrounded by curved walking paths lined with trees.
BLM Pit River Campground opening Saturday, April 29
By Interior Newswire | Apr 27, 2023
News Release: ALTURAS, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management’s Pit River Campground and river access area in eastern Shasta County opens for the season starting Saturday, April 29, and will extend into early fall.
Grand Canyon-Parashant Junior Ranger Program
By Interior Newswire | Apr 27, 2023
News Release: Junior Rangers help to preserve and protect national parks. They learn about nature and history, have fun exploring the parks, and tell their friends, families, and schoolmates about their adventures. Junior Rangers continue to protect the environment at home and at school.
The Land Remembers: Fort Vancouver National Historic Site hosts Rich Bergeman for photography exhibit and talk on Rogue River War sites
By Interior Newswire | Apr 27, 2023
News Release: The National Park Service is pleased to announce that Rich Bergeman, a photographer based in Corvallis, Oregon, is the guest curator of an exhibit in the Fort Vancouver National Historic Site Visitor Center. The photography exhibit will run from April 24 through September 25 in the visitor center's theater.
Back Cove
By Interior Newswire | Apr 27, 2023
News Release: In 1895, Olmsted, Olmsted & Eliot were hired by Portland, Maine’s mayor James Baxter to improve the site known as Back Cove. The firm proposed a dam that would form a saltwater pond, dredging the mudflats then building a tree-lined drive and promenade around the perimeter of Back Cove. While the dam was never built, ten years later the Olmsted’s would return to Back Cove, this time as Olmsted Brothers.
Riverbank Park
By Interior Newswire | Apr 27, 2023
News Release: Influenced by the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Newark, New Jersey wanted their citizens to benefit from open green spaces within congested districts where industry and residences dominate the land. Riverbank Park, designed by Olmsted Brothers, was intended as an urban park to serve the growing city. Originally six-acres, Riverbank Park is the smallest in the Essex County Park System.
Shed Antler Collection Begins May 1 in Teton County
By Interior Newswire Report | Apr 27, 2023
Officials with the Bridger-Teton National Forest, National Elk Refuge, and Wyoming Game and Fish Department announced plans today for the opening of wildlife winter range at 6 am on May 1st, 2023 in Teton County Wyoming.
Waccamaw National Wildlife Refuge Expands Historic Hasty Point Plantation
By Interior Newswire Report | Apr 27, 2023
Latest acquisition advances master planning initiative, provides greater access to new recreational and educational opportunities
Current Road Conditions at Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge
By Interior Newswire Report | Apr 27, 2023
Weather and wildlife management activities have led to the temporary closures of several refuge roads to vehicles and/or general public access.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Job Opening in Eastern North Carolina
By Interior Newswire Report | Apr 27, 2023
The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) has a permanent position open for a Maintenance Worker to work as part of a Maintenance Action Team for national wildlife refuges in eastern North Carolina.
Fish Passage Projects Support Migrating Fish, Recreational Opportunities and Flood Prevention
By Interior Newswire Report | Apr 27, 2023
Across the country National Fish Passage Program projects funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law will help restore rivers, protect wildlife, support communities, and improve climate resilience.
Trumpeter Swans: First Sign of Spring
By Interior Newswire Report | Apr 27, 2023
Although the first day of spring has technically passed, signs of spring are just beginning to peer their heads here at the Whittlesey Creek National Wildlife Refuge on the south shore of Lake Superior in Wisconsin
Celebrate Earth Day 2023
By Interior Newswire Report | Apr 27, 2023
On this Earth Day, folks in Alabama have a lot to celebrate thanks to a team at Cahaba River National Wildlife Refuge working to make one corner of the state a better place.
Kodiak Refuge Inspires New Music
By Interior Newswire Report | Apr 27, 2023
Scottish-born singer-songwriter and 5X Platinum and Grammy-nominated musician KT Tunstall released an original piece of music inspired by her residency at Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge in Kodiak, Alaska.