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Ask A Ranger. Violence Is Nothing New To The Blue Ridge Parkway.

Wayward bears addicted to Kentucky Fried Chicken are the least of a park ranger’s worries. Just ask Bruce Bytnar, who worked at the Blue Ridge Parkway for 27 years before he retired in 2008. In his book, A Park Ranger’s Life: Thirty-Two Years of Protecting Our National Parks, Bytnar tells the real story behind what it is like to patrol a 469-mile long park through some of the best scenery the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia and North Carolina have to offer.

Delaware North Building Its Visibility Around Yellowstone National Park Through Lodge Acqusitions

In a move that will strengthen its presence in the National Park System, the Delaware North Companies has picked up two lodging properties in West Yellowstone, Montana, bringing to three the number of hotels it owns in the western gateway to Yellowstone National Park.

Washington Dined Here - Volunteer Opportunity for Hands-on Archeology at Valley Forge National Historical Park

If you've ever had a desire to get involved in some hands-on archeology, here's an opportunity in a prime location. Valley Forge National Historical Park is looking for volunteers this summer to help excavate an area at Washington's Headquarters that has "great potential" for important discoveries

Monitors Ringing Dry Tortugas, Everglades, and Biscayne National Parks Ready to Detect Deepwater Horizon Impacts

A series of paint-can-sized pails are bobbing in the Straits of Florida where the Gulf of Mexico mingles with the Atlantic Ocean, ready to chronicle what impacts, if any, will descend on Dry Tortugas, Everglades, or Biscayne national parks from the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

Did Tar Balls At Dry Tortugas National Park Descend From "Spills of Opportunity"?

When word came earlier this month that tar balls had washed ashore at Dry Tortugas National Park, the implication was that they were related to the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe. But then an analysis showed they weren't related, so where did they come from? Some think they were tied to a "spill of opportunity."