Kids Advocacy Site Recognizes National Parks Traveler For Its Content and Approach
The National Parks Traveler has been recognized by a leading kids advocacy web site for its content.
- By Kurt Repanshek - August 19th, 2009 7:45am
Climate Change and National Parks: A Survival Guide for a Warming World -- Caribou in Alaska's Parks and Preserves
Caribou have been on the landscape for more than 400,000 years. For roughly the past 12,000 years, they have been hunted by humans — first the paleo-Indians, now the First Nations’ cultures along with many other Alaskans. Resilience to hunting, to weather, and to predators has enabled the caribou to remain an integral part of both the natural landscape and the human culture. The greatest test of their resilience, though, stands to be climate change.
The 15th Annual Gettysburg Music Muster Offers Free Concerts on August 22
If you enjoy music from the Civil War era—or want to learn something about it—here's a great opportunity for you: The 15th Annual Gettysburg Music Muster is scheduled for Saturday, August 22, 2009, at Gettysburg National Military Park, and the concerts are free.
- By Jim Burnett - August 19th, 2009 4:12am
National Park Quiz 67: Potpourri III
We haven’t had a potpourri quiz since March, so here’s another batch of category leftovers and hard-to fit questions. Hope you find ‘em interesting. Answers are at the end. If we catch you peeking, we’ll just look the other way. Everybody deserves a free pass now and then.
- By Bob Janiskee - October 31st, 2011 7:53am
Reader Participation Day: So, How Was Your Most Recent National Park Visit?
So, how was your latest visit to a national park? Were rangers present to answer your questions? How was the parking? Restrooms clean? We'd like to hear from you.
- By Kurt Repanshek - August 19th, 2009 3:28am
Search for Human-Habituated Grizzlies in Glacier National Park Ends With Two Dead Bears
A grizzly sow that had come to view humans as a source of food in Glacier National Park has been killed by rangers, who also accidentally killed one of her yearling cubs when they tried to tranquilize it. The killings Monday brought to a close a long-running effort by park rangers to get the sow and her two cubs to rely on their natural food sources and to avoid backcountry travelers.
- By Kurt Repanshek - August 18th, 2009 4:56pm
Climate Change and National Parks: A Survival Guide for a Warming World -- Bighorn Sheep in the Southwest
Canyonlands National Park is one of the most rugged national parks, with a harsh summer sun that bakes the dry, canyon-riddled landscape. But those deep canyons’ steep rocky slopes, which offer ample grasses and shrubs, and an openness that puts predators at a disadvantage, are an optimal environment for bighorn sheep. In fact, Canyonlands’ bighorn population has been so stable that Utah’s wildlife biologists long relied on it for stock to re-establish herds elsewhere in the state.
Sound Advice For Backcountry Travelers in the National Parks
One of my favorite writers is Nicholas D. Kristof, a columnist for the New York Times. He has an incredibly deft ability for crafting an article both informative and entertaining in a surprisingly few number of paragraphs. The other day he wrote on the joys and wonders of hiking in the backcountry, and he made some points well worth sharing.
- By Kurt Repanshek - August 18th, 2009 4:26am
Hurricane Ridge Road at Olympic National Park Closed Temporarily by Rockslide
A popular attraction at Olympic National Park is the 17-mile drive up the Hurricane Ridge Road. The scenic road remains closed today for a third day due to a rock slide, and a reopening date is not yet known.
- By Jim Burnett - August 18th, 2009 4:01am
National Park Geologic Sites Draw Raves and Rants
Smithsonian high-fives the parks and Yahoo! Travel flips the bird.
- By Bob Janiskee - August 18th, 2009 3:00am
