Backcountry Campers At Fundy Asked To Record Bat Sounds
Fundy National Park is asking backcountry campers to help collect data on bats.
- By NPT Staff - June 8th, 2022 2:45am
Cash Payments Won't Be Accepted For Tours At Wind Cave National Park
If you want to camp at Wind Cave National Park or go underground on a cave tour, you'll have to pay with a credit card as the park won't accept cash payments as of June 15.
- By Compiled From N... - June 8th, 2022 2:30am
Can Cattle And Tule Elk Co-Exist At Point Reyes National Seashore?
While the San Andreas Fault holds a destructive history up and down California, seismic activity is not what’s erupting these days around the riparian habitats, undulating grasslands, and bluffs that rise over the Pacific beaches of Point Reyes National Seashore.
- By Kurt Repanshek - June 8th, 2022 2:30am
Manitoba Fort Launches Guided, Hands-On Experiences
Lower Fort Garry National Historic Site has reopened for the 2022 season and has guides ready to escort visitors back in time to experience the booming 1850s fur trade era with hands-on history they can taste, touch and feel.
- By NPT Staff - June 7th, 2022 2:45am
Blue Ridge Parkway Detour Around Laurel Fork Bridge Project
Work has begun on a $29 million project to replace the Laurel Fork Bridge on the Blue Ridge Parkway at milepost 248.8 in Ashe County, North Carolina. A full park closure to all uses in the immediate vicinity of the bridge is expected to be in place this week. Work is expected to take over two years to complete, with a target completion date of November 2024.
- By Compiled From N... - June 7th, 2022 2:30am
American Battlefield Trust Declares Victory At Slaughter Pen Farm
Once billed as the most desirable property for industrial development in the Commonwealth of Virginia, the site that historians argue determined the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg is saved forever following a 16-year, $12-million fundraising campaign to ensure its protection. To seal the deal on the largest and most complex private battlefield preservation effort in the nation’s history, the American Battlefield Trust enlisted the participation of a preservation-friendly developer, a flexible financial lender and forward-thinking government officials, as well as tens of thousands of individual donors.
- By NPT Staff - June 7th, 2022 2:30am
Plastic Waste Cleanups Slated For Gros Morne Area
Parks Canada Parks works with the Atlantic Healthy Oceans Initiative and Gros-Morne Cooperating Association to help reduce the amount of waste in the Gros Morne National Park region and boost awareness of the impacts of plastic pollution on the environment.
- By NPT Staff - June 6th, 2022 2:45am
Booker T. Washington National Monument To Host Juneteenth 2022
Booker T. Washington National Monument in Virginia is scheduled to present Juneteenth 2022 on Saturday, June 18, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Juneteenth, short for June nineteenth, has long served as a celebration date for the effective end of slavery in the United States. The date became a federal holiday in 2021.
- By David and Kay Scott - June 6th, 2022 2:30am
Wildfire Precautions Prepared Lassen Volcanic National Park For The Dixie Fire
How much of Lassen Volcanic National Park in California was impacted by last year's Dixie Fire, and how were the impacts minimized to a certain extent? This video explains how the National Park Service had prepared the national park for wildfire.
- By Compiled From N... - June 6th, 2022 2:30am
Senate Committee To Consider Legislation Protecting Grand Canyon, Forest Restoration, Federal Land Sales
Legislation that would protect Grand Canyon National Park from uranium mining will be considered by a Senate subcommittee along with other measures that would direct the Interior and Agriculture departments to tackle forest restoration projects, allow the federal government to sell land for housing, and expand Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument.
