Pruning the Parks: Lake Texoma Recreation Area (1946-1949)
Lake Texoma is a hugely popular flatwater playground on the Texas-Oklahoma border. It was once, albeit briefly, a national park.
- By Bob Janiskee - June 30th, 2010 3:50am
America's Great Outdoors: Your Chance to Speak Up
Are Americans losing touch with the rural side of life? Are we forgetting how pastoral settings appear and make us feel? President Obama fears so, and he's interested in your thoughts on how to get Americans reconnected with the "great outdoors."
- By Kurt Repanshek - June 30th, 2010 2:12am
National Park Road Trip 2010: The Great Platte River Road
Greetings from North Platte, Nebraska, at the fork of the North Platte and South Platte rivers. Monday night we camped in Cody Park, a very nice municipal park on the north side of North Platte, Nebraska.
- By David and Kay Scott - June 30th, 2010 2:11am
$1,000 Reward Offered In Connection With Crushed Loggerhead Sea Turtle at Cape Hatteras National Seashore
An off-road-vehicle group is offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for running over and killing a loggerhead sea turtle attempting to nest at Cape Hatteras National Seashore.
At Cape Hatteras National Seashore, a Shipwreck Excavation Becomes an Outdoor Laboratory for Learning
The remains of the shipwrecked schooner Laura Barnes will eventually end up in the Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum. Meanwhile, the excavation and preservation processes provide important learning opportunities for a group of budding archeologists.
Power Could Take A While to Restore at Yellowstone National Park's Fishing Bridge RV Park
There's nothing quite as bad on a national park vacation as pulling into an RV park only to learn there's no electricity. The folks at Yellowstone National Park are trying to eliminate that woe by restoring the electrical at the Fishing Bridge RV Park.
Yellowstone's Fishing Ethic An Export Into Heart of Canadian Pike Country
You can call it a ripple effect, or “trickle-up conservation” or, in concepts that rabid anglers know in their hearts, the value of wild, sustainable fisheries and what they really mean.
- By Todd Wilkinson - June 29th, 2010 2:45am
Construction Schedule Changes Improve Hiking Access at Zion National Park
With the latest change in the schedule of construction along the Zion-Mount Carmel Highway through the eastern side of Zion National Park, access to some hiking trails has gotten better.
- By Kurt Repanshek - June 29th, 2010 2:31am
On the Oregon Trail on the National Park Road Trip, 2010
Greetings from Fort Kearny (pronounced as "Carney", the first and considered one of the most important military posts on the Oregon Trail. Following our stay at Rock Creek Station, we zigzagged 125 miles to the northwest following as closely as possible the Oregon Trail that itself traced a stretch of the Little Blue River.
- By David and Kay Scott - June 29th, 2010 2:21am
Another Bear Killed By Hit-and-Run Driver in Yellowstone National Park
The summer is not starting off well for bears in Yellowstone National Park, where for the second time in less than a month a bear has been killed by a hit-and-run driver.
- By Kurt Repanshek - June 28th, 2010 5:37pm
