Search Underway For Missing Hiker At Olympic National Park
A search is ongoing for a hiker overdue in the backcountry of Olympic National Park in Washington state.
- By NPT Staff - September 7th, 2014 8:33am
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Volunteer Labor At Olympic National Park And Outsourcing Ranger Tours At Cumberland Island National Seashore
National parks, strapped for funding, are turning more to volunteer labor and outsourcing jobs previously conducted by rangers to make ends meet.
Olympic National Park Visitor Scratched By Bat, Getting Treated For Rabies As A Precaution
A 59-year-old Washington state man is undergoing rabies prevention treatment after being scratched by a bat in front of Lake Crescent Lodge in Olympic National Park earlier this month.
- By NPT Staff - August 19th, 2014 3:20am
Olympic National Park Rangers To Guide Hikes Along Elwha River As Restoration Continues
As the dynamic restoration of the Elwha River drainage in Olympic National Park continues in the wake of the Elwha and Glines Canyon dams being dismantled, the opportunity to see the landscape's renewal first-hand arrives on Tuesday, when the first of a small number of ranger-led hikes into the drainage will be offered.
- By NPT Staff - August 17th, 2014 3:20am
Contract Issued To Move Enchanted Valley Chalet At Olympic National Park
The Enchanted Valley Chalet in Olympic National Park soon will be on the move, to a location a bit farther away from the East Fork Quinault River that has been slowly eating away the ground beneath the historic log building.
- By NPT Staff - August 15th, 2014 2:20am
Want To Improve Your National Park Photography? Catch This Webcast From The Parks
National park photography classes will take a big step forward in late August when Ian Shive, an award-winning photographer and author of The National Parks: Our American Landscape, conducts a live class over the Internet from Olympic and Mount Rainier national parks.
- By NPT Staff - August 2nd, 2014 1:34pm
Olympic National Park Gets Approval To Move Enchanted Valley Chalet...But How?
Olympic National Park officials have received approval to move the Enchanted Valley Chalet away from the East Fork Quinault River, and will try to accomplish that before fall.
- By NPT Staff - July 30th, 2014 2:31am
Olympic National Park Working On Long-Range Mountain Goat Management Plan
Mountain goats are spectacular animals, even iconic in places such as Glacier National Park, but they can cause problems in parks where they don't belong. At Olympic National Park, where a 1920s era introduction project brought non-native goats into the landscape, officials are embarking on a management plan for how to deal with the animals. Adding weight to the need for such a plan was the fatal goring of a hiker in the park four years ago.
- By Kurt Repanshek - July 22nd, 2014 4:30am
On The Road To Three National Park Jewels In The Pacific Northwest
Washington state’s Puget Sound is a forested metropolis, braided with inlets and bays and ringed by steep, glacier-clad peaks. On the west skyline, the stately, wet Olympic Mountains grab moisture from the ocean clouds to nurture the temperate rain forest of Olympic National Park. To the east the queen-mother’s throne, nearly three-mile-high Mount Rainier, holds court on clear days in its namesake park.
- By Patrick Cone - June 18th, 2014 4:25am
Mountain Goat Studies Continuing At Glacier National Park
Stylish collars and perhaps a splash of paint will mark some mountain goats this summer at Glacier National Park in Montana, where an ongoing study of the animals is moving into its second year.
- By NPT Staff - June 6th, 2014 3:15am
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