Canada Moves Closer To Goal For New National Marine Conservation Areas
Canada has announced a new policy to help it reach its goal of creating 10 new national marine conservation areas.
- By NPT Staff - February 9th, 2023 2:45am
Exploring Pine Forests And Mangroves In Grand Bahama's National Parks
The first thing I see when I land on Grand Bahama Island is Caribbean pine trees decimated by Hurricane Dorian in 2019. The impossibly tall evergreens line the highway, but all that’s left is their slender, erect trunks. They look naked without their branches and needles. Naked, yet also defiantly still alive.
- By Jennifer Bain - February 8th, 2023 3:00am
Agate Fossil Beds Continues To Reveal Its Secrets Of Ancient Life
Faunal life from 5 million years ago, or older, will come to life Saturday when a paleontologist reveals what she has learned from fossils excavated from Agate Fossil Beds National Monument in Nebraska.
- By Compiled From N... - February 8th, 2023 2:45am
Bryce Canyon National Park Turning 100
A cave without a ceiling, red rocks standing like men, nature’s most delicate jewel—Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah has been described as many things, and this year the National Park Service will add “100 years old” to that list. To celebrate this historic milestone, the park and its partners are inviting the public to enjoy a year of special programs and events.
- By Compiled From N... - February 7th, 2023 2:30am
International Collaboration On Active Volcanoes
Volcano observatories operate in many countries and are responsible for monitoring and communicating the hazards posed by active volcanism. Several organizations help with the transfer of knowledge between scientists and the emergency managers who are responsible for preparedness, response, and mitigation.
- By NPT Staff - February 7th, 2023 2:30am
Group Questions Management Approach At Valles Caldera National Preserve
National Park Service plans for managing visitation at Valles Caldera National Preserve in New Mexico are being questioned by an outside organization that advocates for sustainable preservation of the nealy 89,000-acre park.
- By Kurt Repanshek - February 6th, 2023 3:00am
Night Sky Magic Over Olympic National Park
Night sky programs introduce Olympic National Park visitors to the other half of the park.
- By Kurt Repanshek - February 6th, 2023 2:30am
National Park Service Grappling With Hazard Trees At Kings Canyon, Sequoia National Parks
Threats to visitors and park infrastructure posed by 12,000-15,000 "hazard trees" burned during the massive KNP Complex fire of 2021 at Kings Canyon and Sequoia national parks but still standing has the National Park Service formulating a plan to deal with them. The agency's preference is to remove tree hazards along roadways and the parks' developed areas within the fire's burn perimeter and then treat fallen debris around infrastructure and within up to 80 feet from the edge of roadways.
- By Compiled From N... - February 5th, 2023 2:30am
Review | Headed Into The Wind: A Memoir
Jack Loeffler has explored the Southwest landscape and come to see it as “an integrated biogeographical system” in which Indigenous people “developed profound spiritual relationships with their homelands.” Avowing that he is not a religious man in the conventional sense, he has come to a recognition “of the sacred within the flow of Nature,” and this book explains how he got there.
- By John Miles - February 5th, 2023 2:30am
NPS Launching Wilderness Study At Wupatki National Monument
More than a decade after determining that almost all of the acreage within Wupatki National Monument is eligible for wilderness designation, the National Park Service is seeking public comment on how much of the park should be proposed for wilderness designation.
- By Compiled From N... - February 5th, 2023 2:30am
