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Keeping Kids Busy With Virtual Adventures In National Park Settings

Parents across the country have found themselves turned into teachers as the coronavirus pandemic shut down schools and led to virtual schooling. For those parents running out of materials to keep kids learning and focused so you can get your own work done, the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation has ramped up its Kids in Parks offerings for virtual audiences.

National Parks Traveler Episode 64: Artistic Interpretation And Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation

National Parks Traveler Episode 64: Artistic Interpretation and Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation
Who makes those colorful interpretive panels found in the National Park System? One person is Steve Patricia. He’s an independent artist and content specialist who provides illustrations and diagrams for waysides, exhibits and murals at national parks, monuments, and historic sites all over the country. He explains his work to Lynn Riddick in this week's podcast.

Groups Support Efforts To Keep Pipeline From Crossing A.T., Blue Ridge Parkway

Any gas pipelines that cross the Appalachian National Scenic Trail or the Blue Ridge Parkway need to be approved by Congress, not simply the U.S. Forest Service, according to an amicus brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court by former National Park Service Director Jon Jarvis, the trail's former superintendent, the National Parks Conservation Association, and the Coalition to Protect America's National Parks.
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Operator Sought For Iconic Bluffs Restaurant Along Blue Ridge Parkway

The Bluffs Restaurant at Doughton Park on the Blue Ridge Parkway is ready for the next big step on its path to revitalization. Renovations to the restaurant will begin this fall, and the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation, in cooperation with the National Park Service, is seeking an operator for the iconic restaurant, which is slated to reopen in 2020. The Bluffs is located at milepost 241 on the Blue Ridge Parkway.

National Parks Traveler Episode 27: Blue Ridge Parkway Needs, Acadia's Falcons, And Black Canyon Of The Gunnison

As with many units of the National Park System, there are many needs along the Blue Ridge Parkway, a 469-mile-long ribbon of bucolic landscape linking Shenandoah and Great Smoky Mountains national parks. And without the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation, many of those needs would go wanting and fall into neglect or worse.

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