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Stretches Of Blue Ridge Parkway To Be Closed For Months For Work on Historic Guardrails

Planning to drive the Blue Ridge Parkway in the months to come? Be sure to bring your roadmap, as construction work along three stretches in North Carolina will impede your progress.

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By NPT Staff - November 2nd, 2011 2:44am

Running With The Big Sled Dogs At Denali National Park, The Video

Running with the big dogs means something in Denali National Park and Preserve, where Ranger Jess Toubman has been training her sled dogs in a park campground for the coming winter.

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By NPT Staff - November 2nd, 2011 2:29am

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Yellowstone National Park Receives Green Light To Redesign Traffic Flow Through North Entrance

A plan to redesign traffic flows into Yellowstone National Park through its North Entrance has been given the green light by regional officials, although a firm timetable for the work to proceed is somewhat open-ended at this time.

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By NPT Staff - November 2nd, 2011 2:16am

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President Obama Uses Antiquities Act To Create Fort Monroe National Monument

The National Park System grew by one unit Tuesday as President Obama used his powers under the Antiquities Act of 1906 to create Fort Monroe National Monument in Virginia. With that declaration the president preserved a site integral to the history of slavery, the Civil War, and the U.S. military.

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By NPT Staff - November 1st, 2011 1:14pm

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Science Takes A Hit In President Obama's 2012 Budget

Budget cuts are rippling through federal programs. One that has taken a direct hit is the National Biological Information Infrastructure, which will go the way of the Dodo on January 15.

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By Kurt Repanshek - November 1st, 2011 2:59am

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Joshua Tree National Park Abandons General Management Plan Revision, Blue Ridge Parkway Proceeding With Its GMP

While Joshua Tree National Park officials have abandoned efforts to revise their long-range General Management Plan, preferring instead to focus on specific issues, Blue Ridge Parkway officials are moving ahead with their own GMP.

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By NPT Staff - November 1st, 2011 2:37am

Birding In The National Parks: Where Are All The Kittlitz's Murrelets Going?

Data being gathered to help the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decide whether the Kittlitz's murrelet should have Endangered Species Act protection shows an alarming direction in the species' population trend.

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By Kurt Repanshek - November 1st, 2011 2:24am

Traveler Housekeeping: Making It Easier To Follow Your Favorite Unit of the National Park System

It just got easier to follow your favorite unit of the National Park System on the Traveler.

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By NPT Staff - November 1st, 2011 2:11am

Grand Teton National Park Officials ID Bear Victim, Investigation Ongoing

A Wyoming man who was attacked by a bear in Grand Teton National Park says when he first saw the bear it was only five or 10 yards from him. Timothy Hix added that he tried to ward off the bruin with bear spray, but couldn't get the canister from its holster in time, park officials said.

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By Kurt Repanshek - October 31st, 2011 1:44pm

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Report: President Obama Ready To Make Virginia's Fort Monroe A National Monument

President Obama will turn to the Antiquities Act of 1906 for the first time to designate Fort Monroe in Virginia as a national monument, according to officials at the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

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By Kurt Repanshek - October 31st, 2011 9:27am