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Canada is investing $2.5 million ($1.8 million USD) over five years to help plan long-term approaches to restore and increase the resilience of the Kluane National Park and Reserve's forests while helping to revitalize Southern Tutchone traditions and culture.
After holding daily visitation at Cumberland Island National Seashore to roughly 300 for nearly four decades, the National Park Service is proposing to more than double that under a visitor use management plan open for public comment.
Sites in Virginia and South Carolina have been added to the Reconstruction Era National Historic Network, which connects sites across the country that provide education, interpretation and research related to the period of Reconstruction.
There he stands in the woods as you start walking down the Discovery Claim Trail to the creek where Skookum Jim Mason, Káa Goox (Dawson Charlie), Shaaw Tláa (Kate Carmack) and George Carmack discovered gold in the Yukon in August 1896 and sparked the Klondike Gold Rush.
Access to Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park from Gardiner, Montana, opened for visitors Sunday, four-and-a-half months after historic flooding tore out sections of the main north road leading into the park.
In northern Manitoba, the normally solitary polar bears that roam the tundra near the remote town of Churchill are starting to gather on the shore of Hudson Bay, waiting for the sea ice to freeze so they can hunt seals and fatten up.
In the café at Batoche National Historic Site, cooks transform bison from Parks Canada’s herd into stew and burgers, and local Saskatoon berries into iced tea and tarts. In the exhibition room, I try rug hooking while surrounded by the colorful creations of traditional Métis rug makers like Margaret Harrison. In the gift shop run by the Friends of Batoche, I buy a book that shares Métis Elder stories about important river plants in the area like pasture sage, chokecherry and cattail, and notes their names in Michif.
At approximately 9:00 p.m., October 28th, 2022, Newton County Sherriff’s Office received a report of an overdue hiker. Clinton Preston Smith, age 67 from Baton Rouge, LA, was reported missing after failing to return from an October 27th planned hike on the Hemmed-in-Hollow Trail in Buffalo National River, Newton County, AR.