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Seventy-Five Years Ago, the Reorganization of 1933 Impacted the National Park System Like No Other Event Before or Since

What’s the single most significant date in the evolution of the National Park System? It’s hard to argue with August 10, 1933. That’s when the Reorganization of 1933 took effect, and no other event in the history of the national parks before or since can match it for the sheer scale and portent of its long-lasting impacts.

Shenandoah National Park Ranger Roy Sullivan Set the World Record for Being Hit by Lightning

The odds of being struck by lightning once in an 80-year lifetime are about one in 3,000. The odds for two strikes in a lifetime soar to one in nine million. Roy Sullivan, a park ranger at Shenandoah National Park, was struck by seven lightning bolts and survived them all. It just goes to show you something or other.

I'll Be Watching You

Barred Owl by William Calder.

Too often we enter a national park and spend much of our time looking at the landscape, not into it.

William Calder, a software engineer, captured this Barred Owl in Shenandoah after it buzzed his truck and took up a nearby roost. It's a great reminder of the wonderful wildlife the national park system protects, and what we can see if we take the time to look.

Will Calder
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