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Mount Rainier To Feature More Lahar Detectors

The National Park Service has approved a proposal from the U.S. Geological Survey’s Cascades Volcano Observatory to improve the lahar detection system at Mount Rainier National Park. Mount Rainier is an active volcano with a history of large lahars (volcanic mudflows) that have previously impacted areas now populated both within and outside of the national park.

Visitors Cited For Removing Foal From Shackleford Banks At Cape Lookout National Seashore

Although well-intentioned, visitors to Shackleford Banks at Cape Lookout National Seashore, worried about a lone newborn foal following them around, were ultimately cited for lifting the foal into their boat and thereby removing it from its natural habitat, mother, and the herd.

Point Reyes National Seashore Working To Update Tomales Point Management Plan

News that Point Reyes National Seashore staff is working to update its management plan for the Tomales Point area of the national seashore in California has spurred calls for removal of a fence used to prevent native Tule elk from intermingling with cattle herds that graze on the seashore.

Rappahannock Tribe Regains Fones Cliffs, A Sacred Site Overlooking Captain John Smith Trail

Four-hundred-and-sixty-five acres along a four-mile stretch of sandstone bluffs along the north bank of the Rappahannock River in Virginia, a place where Captain John Smith first encountered the Rappahannock Tribe in 1608, has been regained by the Rappahannock Tribe.

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