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For $30 Million You Could Have Zion National Park in Your Backyard

For just $30 million you could have not only a nearly 2,100-acre ranch in the gorgeous red-rock country of southern Utah, but you could have Zion National Park in your backyard.

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By Kurt Repanshek - March 16th, 2011 3:30am

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Slight Boost In Climbing Fees Approved For Mount Rainier National Park

A slight increase -- the cost of about four cups of coffee at Starbucks -- has been approved for the annual climbing passes sold at Mount Rainier National Park.

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By Kurt Repanshek - March 16th, 2011 2:38am

Cleanup From Tsunami Under Way At National Park Sites in Hawaii

Clean-up is ongoing in both Pu`uhonua o Honaunau and Kaloko Honokohau national historical parks in Hawaii from last week's tsunami, which officials say overtopped walls and surged hundreds of feet inland.

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By Kurt Repanshek - March 15th, 2011 9:58am

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Keeping Track of What The National Park Service Is Up To In Your State

As it continues to improve its web presence, the National Park Service has made it easier for you to find information on the parks in your state...as well as on other Park Service-related entities, such as properties on the national register, or wild and scenic rivers, or historic trails.

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By Kurt Repanshek - March 15th, 2011 3:51am

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PEER Claims National Park Service Director's Order On Wilderness Management Is Off-Base

Is the National Park Service adding clarity, or confusion, about how it should be managing wilderness via revisions to its wilderness stewardship guidelines? Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility believes the agency is not only confusing matters, but lessening wilderness protections.

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By Kurt Repanshek - March 15th, 2011 3:50am

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Spend National Park Week Helping To Rebuild Tallgrass Prairie At Herbert Hoover National Historic Site

If you're looking for a good, active way to celebrate National Park Week, consider helping the folks at Herbert Hoover National Historic Site rebuild an 81-acre tallgrass prairie.

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By Kurt Repanshek - March 15th, 2011 3:07am

Plowing Of Denali Park Road To Begin Wednesday in Denali National Park

A little more snow and ice-clogged culverts are awaiting crews at Denali National Park and Preserve who are scheduled to begin work Wednesday on opening the Denali Park Road for the summer.

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By Kurt Repanshek - March 15th, 2011 2:38am

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Is The Florida Panther Up Next For Extinction?

With word last week that the Eastern cougar has been declared extinct by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, it leaves just one native panther species alive in the East -- the Florida panther that resides in Big Cypress National Preserve and Everglades National Park.

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By Kurt Repanshek - March 14th, 2011 3:30am

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Grand Canyon "State" Park? A Look Back At The 1995 Government Shutdown And The Battle Over the Grand Canyon

Back in 1995, the last time the federal government shut down over a budget impasse, then-Arizona Gov. Fife Symington showed incredible moxie by trying to engineer a state takeover of Grand Canyon National Park.

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By Kurt Repanshek - March 14th, 2011 3:10am

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Traveler Recommends: Friends of Apostle Islands National Lakeshore

You have to like, and applaud, a national park friends group that supplies toilet paper to outhouses. But that's just one of the tasks the Friends of Apostle Islands National Lakeshore takes on in its support of the lakeshore.

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By Kurt Repanshek - March 14th, 2011 2:00am