Traveler's Checklist: Biscayne National Park
If you love tropical isles, coral reefs, and sunshine, you’ll love Biscayne National Park.
- By Bob Janiskee - October 12th, 2009 5:50am
What to Do With the "Dune Shacks" At Cape Cod National Seashore?
They are simple structures, and "shacks" is no doubt a good way to describe them. Built more than a century ago to house members of the U.S. Life-Saving Service, these board structures hidden amid the dunes of Cape Cod National Seashore have taken on a second, or third, life as artists' roosts. But what should the national seashore do with them?
- By Kurt Repanshek - October 12th, 2009 4:38am
Columbus Day is also Native American Day
The Columbus Day celebration forces the National Park Service to deal with two conflicting themes – joyful celebration of Columbus’ “discovery” of the New World, and somber reflection on the Native American holocaust that ensued.
- By Bob Janiskee - October 12th, 2009 4:35am
Jon Jarvis Supports More Official Wilderness in National Park System
Wilderness. It's where the wild things are. It's a place where the stress of everyday life in the "real" world can be swept away.
- By Kurt Repanshek - October 12th, 2009 4:32am
Mammoth Cave National Park Explains Plans To Restore Tour Trails In The Cave
Time and use have taken a toll on the tour routes that wind through the subterranean labyrinth of Mammoth Cave National Park. And so, not surprisingly, park officials say there's a need to rehab some of those routes.
- By Kurt Repanshek - October 11th, 2009 5:43am
A Conversation With Jon Jarvis, the New Director of the National Park Service
Jon Jarvis is swapping emergency sirens outside his West Coast office for emergency sirens outside the Interior Department building in downtown Washington, D.C. And no doubt he'll be picking up the sounds of quite a few figurative sirens from a National Park System struggling with wildlife issues, climate change, morale woes, and competing user demands.
- By Kurt Repanshek - October 11th, 2009 4:52am
Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks Set to Work on EIS for Yellow-Legged Frog Recovery
Not too long ago fisheries experts in the High Sierra realized that if they removed non-native trout from high-elevation lakes, they could boost fragile populations of a small frog that once was widespread throughout the range. Now Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks want to remove trout from slightly more than 80 of the parks' 560 lakes and ponds to give the mountain yellow-legged frog a chance for survival.
- By Kurt Repanshek - October 11th, 2009 4:23am
Melting Permafrost May Help Explain Why Many Denali National Park Wetlands Are Drying Up
Scientists working in Denali National Park suspect that melting permafrost might be an important reason why many of Alaska’s shallow lakes and wetlands have shrunk or disappeared. If the trend continues, wetland-dependent wildlife might be severely impacted.
- By Bob Janiskee - October 11th, 2009 4:10am
On the Run: Racers See Four National Parks on Two Feet in One Day
Last Saturday morning, nearly 1,800 people got to see some national parks from a new perspective as they ran or walked the first-ever Freedom’s Run: An Event for Health and Heritage near Shepherdstown, West Virginia.
- By Donna Childress - October 11th, 2009 4:04am
Glacier National Park Issues Its Annual Warning to Hunters: Stay Out Of the Park
It's that time of year: Crisp air, occasional snows, that autumnal scent of dried leaves, and the bugling of elk in the Rockies. And the annual warning from Glacier National Park officials to hunters that they can't hunt in the park or pursue game into the park without the assistance of a ranger.
- By Kurt Repanshek - October 10th, 2009 5:05am
