Biscayne National Park's "Spite Highway" Reopens To Hikers
You can walk a bit of the controversial past at Biscayne National Park, and enjoy nature, with the reopening of Spite Highway.
- By NPT Staff - May 20th, 2019 1:30am
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Biscayne National Park Staff Battle Lionfish
Lionfish. Impossibly beautiful, incredibly invasive. Arriving on Florida's shores in the 20th century, the initial population influx of lionfish probably resulted from an accidental or intentional release from a hobbyist fish tank.
- By Erika Zambello - August 1st, 2024 1:24am
Biscayne National Park Art Exhibit Celebrates Plants And Their Pollinators
The newest exhibit in Biscayne National Park’s Dante Fascell Visitor Center Gallery features 30 detailed botanical illustrations of some of South Florida’s flowering plants and their pollinators. Pollinators, created by Tropical Botanic Artists, is now on display daily from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. through May 5, 2019. On Saturday, March 30, visitors will have the opportunity to meet the artists at a free reception from 6 - 8 p.m.
- By Erika Zambello - February 2nd, 2019 1:30am
Legacy On The Land: A Black Couple Discovers Our National Inheritance And Tells Why Every American Should Care
Many national park enthusiasts can recite the history of the system or their favorite site by memory. They laud the conservationists and leaders who knew we must protect precious natural landscapes for future generations, they know the first national park (Yellowstone), and the year the National Park Service was founded (1916). But how many know of the contributions of people of color to our national parks?
Collaboration Keeps National Parks In Florida Open For Visitors
A collaboration in Florida has formed to keep national parks there open and clean.
- By NPT Staff - January 16th, 2019 1:30am
Searching For History In Biscayne Bay
Somewhere in the waters of Biscayne National Park lies some of the ugly history of the early 19th century's slave trades. Long hours underwater, and some luck, could help archaeologists expand on the story of the Guerrero with its cargo of hundreds of slaves from Africa.
- By Erika Zambello - December 23rd, 2018 8:53am
Sawfish Rescued In Biscayne National Park
Park rangers rescue a trapped sawfish from beneath a pile of lobster trap line.
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- By Erika Zambello - December 9th, 2018 2:00am
Traveler's View: Politics Vs. Public Interest In National Parks
While the National Park Service Organic Act directs the National Park Service to be a guardian of the parks and the flora and fauna within them, politics don't always make that easy. Proof of that can be seen in Alaska, where the agency has done a complete reversal in trying to protect wolves, bears, coyotes and other predators from rampant hunting and trapping.
- By Kurt Repanshek - October 30th, 2018 9:15am
Archaeologists Search For Wreck Of Slave Ship At Biscayne National Park
National parks harbor mysteries and surprises, as evidenced by the discovery back in 2014 of a 132-year-old Winchester rifle leaning up against a gnarled old juniper in the backcountry of Great Basin National Park in Nevada. They also contain chapters of history, one of which is being searched for in the waters of Biscayne National Park in Florida.
- By NPT Staff - July 11th, 2018 2:00am
Hurricane Season Could Be Easier On National Park System
As of right now, it looks like a reprieve of sorts could be in the offing for units of the National Park System battered by hurricanes last year.
- By NPT Staff - April 6th, 2018 1:45pm
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