Odds and Ends From Visitor Surveys at National Parks: You'd Be Surprised At Some of the Answers
Pay attention, national park managers and staff. If there's nothing else you do well, be sure to keep the restrooms clean and stocked.
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
Loons Employed To Help Biologists Better Understand The Birds and Great Lakes Botulism
Avian botulism has been a problem at some units of the National Park System located along the Great Lakes. Biologists working to better understand the spread of the disease are turning to loons to help with their research.
- By Kurt Repanshek - October 23rd, 2011 1:18pm
Free Ranger-Led Summer Bike Tours at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
Like to tour some of the backs roads at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore by bicycle, and pick up some information from a ranger along the way? The park is offering free, ranger-led bike tours two days a week through September 2.
- By Jim Burnett - July 15th, 2010 2:15am
"Disabled Traveler's Companion" Offers Valuable Accessibility Insights for Visiting National Parks
Let's face it, the National Park Service is making strides in addressing ADA needs, but has a ways to go. One couple that frequently travels to parks is making it easier for disabled travelers to anticipate what their visits will be like through websites that assess individual park's accessibility factors.
Lake Michigan, Home to Two National Lakeshores, On Brink of Being Invaded By Voracious Asian Carp
If you thought round gobies and zebra mussels were scary invaders of the Great Lakes, brace yourself for the arrival of Asian carp, a voracious fish that could decimate the lakes' native fisheries.
Climate Change and National Parks: A Survival Guide for a Warming World -- Loon and Other Birds of the Great Lakes
Change is under way in the Great Lakes, the source of 84 percent of North America’s fresh water and more than 20 percent of the world’s supply. It is a progressive sweeping change that threatens to greatly transform the ecosystems of these inland seas by warming their waters and supplanting native species with harmful invasives. And it is a change that ultimately may threaten the viability of the common loon and dozens of other birds that depend on the lakes.
National Park Quiz 65: Dunes
This week’s quiz may leave sand in your shoes. Answers are at the end. If we catch you peeking, we’ll make you explain the culturally nuanced meanings of dune field, erg, and drass.
- By Bob Janiskee - October 28th, 2011 11:52am
National Park Quiz 60: Bears
This week’s quiz will be a snap if you know your bears. Answers are at the end. If we catch you peeking, we’ll make you write on the whiteboard 100 times: “Sporadic euthermal arousal imparts an episodic character to hibernation.”
New Life for a Lighthouse at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
The beacon atop the South Manitou Island Lighthouse in Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore has been dark for years, but light is returning to the historic tower, thanks to a cooperative effort by the NPS and several generous partners.
- By Jim Burnett - May 22nd, 2009 10:18pm
The Dune Climb at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Invites You to Climb, Run, Jump, Slide, Roll, Whoop, and Holler
Michigan’s Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, which celebrates its 38th birthday October 21, has a dune system to marvel at. One of its major attractions, the Dune Climb, is loads of fun for the young and young at heart. Wear comfortable clothes and get ready to climb, run, jump, and roll. Yahoo!!!
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