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 - August 1st, 2024 1:24am
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 6th, 2023 9:48am
National Natural Landmarks – An NPS Designation For Very Special Places
When is something associated with the National Park Service, yet not a unit within the National Park System? When it’s a National Natural Landmark (NNL). There are 602 NNLs within the U.S. worth a day trip if you don’t have time for a stay at a national park.
- By Rebecca Latson - February 4th, 2023 3:00am
Move By U.S. Fish And Wildlife Service To Reconsider ESA Protections For Grizzlies Criticized
A decision Friday by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to reconsider whether grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem need Endangered Species Act protection was heavily criticized by conservation groups.
- By Kurt Repanshek - February 3rd, 2023 12:54pm
Big Bend Wilderness Assessment Identifies 63,505 Acres Of Eligible Wilderness
Much of a large swath of land, more than 67,000 acres that was donated to Big Bend National Park back in 1987, has qualities suitable for official wilderness designation, according to a forthcoming National Park Service assessment.
- By Kurt Repanshek - February 4th, 2023 9:23am
Exploring Pecos National Historical Park
Pecos National Historical Park in New Mexico is rich in history and stories, from its Spanish mission to the surrounding pueblos, kivas, and Indigenous culture.
- By Kurt Repanshek - August 1st, 2024 1:24am
Winter Trout Fishing Season Opens In Gros Morne
The winter trout fishing season in Gros Morne National Park in Newfoundland and Labrador has opened and runs to Apr. 15.
- By NPT Staff - February 3rd, 2023 2:45am
Completing The Electrical Circuit At Kīlauea in Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park
This year is the final year of Kīlauea volcano projects funded by the Additional Supplemental Appropriations for Disaster Relief Act of 2019. This “Volcano Watch” article is about a deep study of subsurface conductivity beneath Kīlauea volcano that will reveal its subsurface magmatic plumbing. The project started within Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park last summer and will be completed over the entire volcano this year.
- By NPT Staff - February 3rd, 2023 2:30am
