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Two-Hundred Years Of Written Observations Of Kīlauea's Summit Activity

On August 1, 1823, an English missionary named William Ellis visited Kīlauea caldera with his Hawaiian guides on a tour of the Island of Hawaiʻi. He and his missionary companions were the first Westerners to visit the summit of Kīlauea, and the book that Ellis later published includes the first contemporary written observations of Kīlauea’s eruptive activity.

House Appropriations Funding Bill For Interior Heavily Criticized

A Republican-backed spending bill for the Interior Department that was up for a full House Appropriations Committee vote late Thursday afternoon would drop funding for Fiscal 2024 below FY18 levels, block grizzly bear recovery in the North Cascades, and remove Endangered Species Act protections for the gray wolf.

Construction On Dingmans Falls Trail At Delaware Water Gap NRA Will Lead To Closures

The final stage of rebuilding the Dingmans Falls boardwalk at Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area in New Jersey and Pennsylvania kicks off next week, and that means there will be some closures on the popular quarter-mile trail that passes by Silverthread Falls on the way to Dingmans Falls.

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