One of historian Douglas Brinkley’s “fortes,” as he puts it, is presidential history, and one project has been to focus on the conservation and environmental records of presidential players in 20th century America.
The National Park Service recently issued a prospectus soliciting proposals for operation of the hostel at Point Reyes National Seashore in California. The hostel is the only lodging facility within the 71,000-acre national seashore that was established under legislation signed by President John Kennedy in 1962.
Michael Reichmuth was stunned to see Chinook salmon showing up in Redwood Creek, a tiny stream that meanders amid the towering coast redwood trees in Muir Woods National Monument.
Point Pelee National Park has closed to conduct an annual deer cull with the Caldwell First Nation. The Leamington, Ontario park closed Jan. 5 and will reopen Jan. 21.
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the National Park Trust, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving national parks and providing young people with inspiring park experiences.
Running nearly 1,700 pages, the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 contained $3.47 billion for the National Park Service for fiscal year 2023, and while the Traveler previously reported on many of those, the following items were also buried in the fine print:
How whales use baleen to filter their meals, and how truly big the flippers of humpback whales are, will be interpreted to future visitors to Cape Lookout National Seashore following the death of a female humpback whale at the seashore.