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The National Park System has 423 park units, including the Ice Age Floods National Geologic Trail. Traveler contributing photographer Rebecca Latson and her cameras began exploring the Washington state portion of this NGT and she returns with photos from places visited during a day trip close to home.

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By Rebecca Latson - June 21st, 2022 4:00am

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More Closures For Ontario's Trent-Severn Waterway

High water levels and flows have forced Parks Canada to expand the partial closure of navigation at the Trent-Severn Waterway National Historic Site.

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By NPT Staff - June 21st, 2022 2:45am

Essay | The Time Has Arrived For A White Mountain National Park

Eastern mountain ranges too often, and unjustly, are given short shrift for their majesty when compared to Western ranges. But as George Wuerthner makes clear in the following essay, the White Mountains in New Hampshire not only are an amazing tract of wilderness-quality forests, streams and lakes, but deserve to be embraced by the National Park System.

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By Kurt Repanshek - June 21st, 2022 2:30am

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National Park Service Announces $50 Million Emergency Funding; Expedited Plans To Reopen 80 Percent Of Yellowstone

During a visit to Yellowstone National Park and Gardiner, Montana, on Sunday, June 19, National Park Service Director Chuck Sams with Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Cam Sholly announced $50 million to kick-start recovery efforts from record breaking floods.

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By Compiled From N... - June 20th, 2022 10:52am

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By Kurt Repanshek - June 20th, 2022 7:36am

Grizzly Killed By Truck In Jasper National Park

A female grizzly bear has been struck and killed by a commercial transport truck on Hwy. 16 in Jasper National Park, and her cub has been orphaned.

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By NPT Staff - June 20th, 2022 3:00am

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Jasper Plans National Indigenous Peoples Day Celebration

Jasper National Park will celebrate National Indigenous Peoples Day with a day of festivities in Robson Park across the street from the library.

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By NPT Staff - June 20th, 2022 2:45am

Review | The National Parks Journal

While most of us memorialize our national park adventures with photographs, a great companion to those images are your thoughts, and Stefanie Payne has given us much room to record those thoughts in The National Parks Journal, Plan & Record Your Trips To The US National Parks.

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By Kurt Repanshek - June 20th, 2022 2:30am

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Trip Report: Grand Teton National Park

Early summer is an incredible season to visit Grand Teton National Park in western Wyoming. The forests, meadows, and wetlands are greening up, runoff has filled Pilgrim, Spread, and Pacific creeks, there's still a good measure of snow on the craggy Tetons, and wildlife abounds.

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By Kurt Repanshek - June 19th, 2022 2:30am

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