Annual Holiday Gift Sale Coming to Olympic National Park
Here's a sale not to be missed if you find yourself near Olympic National Park in mid-December.
- By Kurt Repanshek - December 4th, 2009 4:53am
Great Smoky Mountains National Park Receives Its Annual Poinsettia And A Plaque
This time Wanetta Johnson brought her son, Eric, and a plaque to thank Great Smoky Mountain National Park rangers for saving her son and a friend stranded in the park's backcountry by a snowstorm 35 years ago.
- By Kurt Repanshek - December 4th, 2009 3:45am
Shelton Johnson Honored As National Park Service's Top Interpreter
Poet, ranger, author, documentarian. Shelton Johnson has done it all. And now he's been recognized for his excellence as a national park interpreter with the Freeman Tilden Award.
- By Kurt Repanshek - December 4th, 2009 3:40am
Glacier National Park Proposing Changes to Fishing Regulations
If Glacier National Park officials have their way, you'll be able to keep more of the brook trout you catch in the park than you have been able to in the past. A lot more.
- By Kurt Repanshek - December 4th, 2009 3:22am
New River Gorge National River Proposing Hiking/Biking Trails
As evidence that there's more to meet the eye than just a river, the folks at New River Gorge National River are talking about creating some shared-use trails for hikers and mountain bikers.
- By Kurt Repanshek - December 3rd, 2009 1:53pm
Endangered Species Coalition Lists 10 Species Endangered By Climate Change
A small turtle from the eastern U.S. A species of trout native to Glacier and North Cascades national parks. Grizzly bears. A prairie orchard. A coral. These are among the ten plant, fish, animal, and bird species listed in a new report as being the "hottest" species imperiled by climate change.
hottestspecies.pdf
- By Kurt Repanshek - December 3rd, 2009 4:15am
National Park Mystery Photo 16 Revealed: Yosemite Granite, Polished To a Sheen By Glaciers
There I was, standing on a shelf of rock that borders Cathedral Lake in Yosemite National Park with Cathedral Peak and other crags lining the horizon, and I couldn't take my eyes off the ground.
- By Kurt Repanshek - December 25th, 2009 8:36am
To Thoroughly Explore the Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail, You’ll Need to Bring Your Boat
The Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail, which traces the Chesapeake Campaign of the War of 1812, is so new that actual trail segments haven’t even been defined yet. Waterway segments add a novel twist to a complex set of routes commemorating a British invasion that captured Washington, burned the White House, and inspired our national anthem.
Kalaupapa National Historical Park Honored By Sainthood Bestowed On Father Damien
Sainthood recently bestowed on a 19th century Catholic priest who cared for Hawaiians afflicted with leprosy was celebrated at Kalaupapa National Historical Park, which tells the stories of those who were isolated on the northern shores of Molokai.
- By Kurt Repanshek - December 3rd, 2009 3:23am
Thirty-Five Years Later, Great Smoky Mountain National Park Rangers Still Being Thanked for Rescue
Can you ever say "thanks" enough to those who have saved your life or the life of a family member or friend? The parents of two 15-year-old Boy Scouts who were stranded in the backcountry of Great Smoky Mountains National Park by a blizzard 35 years ago evidently don't think so.
- By Kurt Repanshek - December 2nd, 2009 4:11am
