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November, 2009

11/07/2009 - Glacier Bay National Park Rangers Use Satellite Technology to Help Tangled Whales
11/07/2009 - Is This the Most Unique Job in the National Park Service?
11/07/2009 - National Park Service Director Jarvis Reminds Employees To Be Ethical in All They Do
11/07/2009 - True Tales From the National Parks: Get Me Off Devils Tower!
11/06/2009 - Tidewater Goby Translocation: A Little Fish Gets a Big Boost
11/06/2009 - Traveler's Gear Box: A Tent For Every Occasion
11/06/2009 - National Park Service Sued Over Termination of Indian Trader at Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site
11/06/2009 - Fire at Historic Lodge at Bryce Canyon National Park Won't Delay the 2010 Season Opening
11/05/2009 - Mystery Photo Revealed: What's She Smiling About?
11/05/2009 - Wolves, Moose, and Nutrient Flows at Isle Royale National Park
11/05/2009 - How Many Wolves Are Enough In Washington State?
11/05/2009 - Is There a First State National Historical Park in Delaware’s Future?
11/05/2009 - Cowpens National Battlefield Invites Visitors to Enjoy a Backcountry Holiday at the Scruggs House
11/05/2009 - Skiing On Mount Rainier, Where You Really Earn Your Turns
11/04/2009 - Winter Lodging Specials at Sequoia National Park
11/04/2009 - Report Details Errors That Led to The Death of A Young National Park Firefighter
11/04/2009 - Reader Participation Survey: What Was Your Most Fascinating National Park Interpretive Program?
11/04/2009 - To Drill Or Not To Drill For Oil Beneath Big Cypress National Preserve, That Is The Question
11/04/2009 - Wind Cave Bison Translocation Restocks Mexican Preserve
11/04/2009 - Mystery Photo 16: What's She Smiling About?
11/04/2009 - National Parks Fee-Free On November 11 In Honor of Military Past and Present
11/03/2009 - Here's Your Window Into the Second Century Commission On National Parks
11/03/2009 - These Animals at Craters of the Moon National Monument Are Both Sprinters and Marathoners
11/03/2009 - Everglades National Park Officials Considering "Pole and Troll" Boating Zone to Protect Resources
11/03/2009 - New York Congressman Wants Hudson River Valley Considered For Inclusion in National Park System
11/03/2009 - Grand Teton National Park and Argentine Sister Park Work on Mending Trails
11/02/2009 - As the Civil War Sesquicentennial Draws Near, Endangered Battlefields Get More Federal Attention and Money
11/02/2009 - Discounted Lodging Rates at Canyon De Chelly National Monument Make a Winter Trip Tempting
11/02/2009 - Movie Nights At Valley Forge National Historical Park Bring Revolutionary War Films Into View
11/02/2009 - Researchers Survey Some of Mammoth Cave National Park's Many Cemeteries
11/02/2009 - By The Numbers: Economic Impacts of the National Parks
11/01/2009 - Man Pays $2,500 For Mussels at Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, But They Weren't The Main Course
11/01/2009 - Shenandoah National Park Set to Ban Visitors From Bringing Their Own Firewood Into Park
11/01/2009 - With Year-End Holidays Not Far Off, Consider These National Park Escapes

October, 2009

10/31/2009 - Missing Hiker Found Deceased on Flanks of Mount Whitney in Sequoia National Park
10/31/2009 - Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial Gets a Construction Permit at Long, Long Last
10/31/2009 - More Than A Few Ghost Stories Swirl About Crater Lake National Park
10/31/2009 - Each Generation Seems To Stamp Its Imprint on the National Parks
10/31/2009 - Visiting Zion National Park in November? Here’s the Fall Schedule for the Free Park Shuttle
10/30/2009 - Server Maintenance Could Briefly Knock The Traveler Off-Line Saturday Morning
10/30/2009 - How Interstate 40's Closure Is Affecting Travel To Great Smoky Mountains National Park
10/30/2009 - Search Expands for Missing Hiker On Mount Whitney in Sequoia National Park
10/30/2009 - You'll Need to Win the Lottery to Attend This Year’s National Christmas Tree Lighting
10/30/2009 - Anniversary Celebration of California Desert Protection Act at Mojave National Preserve
10/30/2009 - Winter Lodging Deals at Mammoth Cave, Zion, Grand Canyon, and Death Valley National Parks
10/30/2009 - Fall's Arrival Means Fewer Open Roads and Campgrounds To Use at Great Smoky Mountains National Park
10/30/2009 - Mammoth Cave National Park Harbors More Than A Few Ghost Stories
10/29/2009 - Congress Boosts National Park Service Budget by $130 Million to $2.7 Billion
10/29/2009 - Search Under Way for Missing Hiker on Mount Whitney in Sequoia National Park
10/29/2009 - Yellowstone National Park's Interior Roads Close For Winter on Monday
10/29/2009 - Yosemite Fund Provides Nearly $6 Million For Yosemite National Park Improvements
10/29/2009 - Bison Will Soon Roam Again at Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve
10/29/2009 - The Ghosts Of Yellowstone National Park
10/29/2009 - It's Official - Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial is the Newest NPS Unit
10/29/2009 - Glacier National Park Officials Working on Wildlife Viewing Plan for Many Glacier Area
10/28/2009 - Coast Guard Wants To Install Search-And-Rescue Communication Towers At Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve
10/28/2009 - Road Work to Close Section of Road At Big Cypress National Preserve
10/28/2009 - After Plenty of Debate, General Management Plan for Jefferson National Expansion Memorial is Completed
10/28/2009 - National Park System Quiz 72: Forts
10/28/2009 - Is The Chateau at Oregon Caves National Monument Haunted?
10/28/2009 - Flight 93 National Memorial Groundbreaking is Finally Scheduled
10/28/2009 - Reader Participation Day: Is Your Guidebook Actually Bound, Or Do You Prefer Pixels?
10/27/2009 - House Passes Legislation That Could Lead the National Park Service to Rebuild Road at North Cascades National Park
10/27/2009 - What Would Longfellow Say About Ghosts and Halloween?
10/27/2009 - Conservation Easement Protects Nearly 1,500 Wooded Acres Rimming the Blue Ridge Parkway
10/27/2009 - Death Valley 49ers Gear Up for 60th Encampment
10/27/2009 - A Few Simple Precautions Could Greatly Enhance Your Safety in the National Parks
10/27/2009 - Evergreen Lodge Near Yosemite National Park Offering Holiday Packages
10/27/2009 - Recovery Funds Will Help Seal Abandoned Mines in Joshua Tree National Park
10/26/2009 - Nurseries Play A Key Role In Caretaking Coral Reefs at Biscayne National Park
10/26/2009 - Traveler's Checklist - Big Bend National Park
10/26/2009 - Nighttime Closures of Skyline Drive Through Shenandoah National Park Planned to Thwart Poachers
10/26/2009 - If A Winter Trip to Yellowstone National Park Is On Your Mind, Here Are Some Options
10/25/2009 - Keep An Eye Out For Bears During Your Fall Hikes in the National Parks
10/25/2009 - How Does Your Congressional Representative Rank on Environmental Issues?
10/25/2009 - What Would Teddy Think?
10/25/2009 - Pruning the Parks: Old Kasaan National Monument (1916-1955) – Moving the Totems Changed Everything
10/24/2009 - Can't Connect to Some NPS Websites? Don't Take it Out on Your Computer
10/24/2009 - A Miss is Much Better than a Mile for Hikers Rescued in Two Separate Falls
10/24/2009 - Rocky Mountain National Park Finds A Great Promoter In Bill Kurtis
10/24/2009 - Visiting Alaska National Parks – By Train
10/23/2009 - National Park Service Announces Superintendent Vacancy At Gettysburg National Military Park
10/23/2009 - Citizen Scientist Volunteer Opportunity at Great Smoky Mountains National Park
10/23/2009 - Death At Channel Islands National Park Demonstrates Need to Be Prepared
10/23/2009 - Man vs. Squirrel… Place Your Bets
10/23/2009 - By the Numbers: The National Park Service Workforce
10/23/2009 - Yosemite National Park Says "No Thanks" to Major Cycling Race
10/22/2009 - Newspaper Reports That Gettysburg National Military Park Superintendent Is Stepping Down
10/22/2009 - Rocky Mountain National Park's Trail Ridge Road Closes; Can Winter Be Far Off For Us in the Lowlands?
10/22/2009 - Need to Identify Exotic Weeds in Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area? There's An App For That!
10/22/2009 - Electronic Portal to Open Great Smoky Mountains National Park To Schools Next Month
10/22/2009 - Tamarisk Beetles Found in Grand Canyon National Park. "Oh, My" or "Oh, Me"?
10/22/2009 - Mystery Spot Revealed: Where Lincoln Famously Eulogized, It Stands Tall Amid Soldiers’ Graves
10/21/2009 - This Third Time Was Anything But Charming – SPOT Misuse At Grand Canyon National Park
10/21/2009 - What Now Becomes Of Fort Hancock At Gateway National Recreation Area?
10/21/2009 - Reader Participation Day: Winter Park Visits, Snow or Sand?
10/21/2009 - Traveler's Gear Box: Hauling Your Gear Around
10/21/2009 - Adding to the National Park System: Here's One List Of Possibles....
10/21/2009 - National Park Mystery Spot: Standing Tall in the Middle
10/20/2009 - Bad Timing: Road Closures Along the Blue Ridge Parkway During Leaf-Peeping Season
10/20/2009 - Traveler’s National Park System Quizzes – A Master List
10/20/2009 - History Abounds in the Waters Surrounding Isle Royale National Park
10/20/2009 - Restoring the Giacomini Wetlands At Point Reyes National Seashore
10/20/2009 - Point Reyes National Seashore To Mark One-Year Anniversary of Wetlands Recovery
10/19/2009 - Investigation Of Gettysburg National Military Park Superintendent Finds Cybertracks to Pornographic Images
10/19/2009 - Dr. Gary Machlis Has Ambitious Plans As Science Advisor to National Park Service Director Jarvis
10/19/2009 - Wilderness Designations And National Parks Don't Cross Paths Often Enough
10/19/2009 - Yosemite National Park Officials Declare the 2009 Fire Season is Officially Over .
10/19/2009 - Was This the Most Ambitious Event Ever Held in an NPS Area?
10/18/2009 - Should A National Park Ranger Countermand a Parent?
10/18/2009 - Dinosaur Tracks at Glen Canyon National Recreation Area Deemed "Important Discovery"
10/18/2009 - New Video Commemorates USS Arizona And Those Who Died At Pearl Harbor
10/18/2009 - Have You Seen the National Trails System Map?
10/18/2009 - Curing Society's Disconnect With Nature Could Be As Easy As A Walk In the Woods
10/17/2009 - Houseboat Fire at Glen Canyon National Recreation Area Injures Six
10/17/2009 - Behind the Lens With a National Park Photographer
10/17/2009 - Take the Holiday Express to Moscow at Steamtown National Historic Site
10/17/2009 - Elk Herd at Great Smoky Mountains National Park Surpasses 100 In Number
10/17/2009 - Free "Leave No Trace" Video Offers Tips on Low Impact Outdoor Travel
10/16/2009 - "Short-Haul" Operation Used to Rescue Backpackers at Kings Canyon National Park
10/16/2009 - Wolf Biologist Killed In Plane Crash in Denali National Park, Pilot Survived
10/16/2009 - Cades Cove Loop Road at Great Smoky Mountains National Park Set for a Major Redo Next Spring
10/16/2009 - By the Numbers: Crater Lake National Park
10/16/2009 - One Way to Grow the Next Generation of Park Supporters
10/16/2009 - New USGS Study Says We Have Good Reason to Worry About Giant Snakes Loose in America
10/15/2009 - Plane Missing at Denali National Park and Preserve With Noted Wolf Biologist Aboard
10/15/2009 - Adventurous Teens Need To Be Rescued From Precarious Perch on Ledge at Glen Canyon National Recreation Area
10/15/2009 - U.S. Senator Mike Enzi Slams National Park's Winter-use Plan for Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks
10/15/2009 - Updated: Yellowstone, Grand Teton National Parks Release Winter-Use Plan That Reduces Snowmobile Numbers
10/15/2009 - "Red Tide" Prompts Visitor Advisory at Padre Island National Seashore
10/15/2009 - Updated: Searchers Spot Missing Backpackers On Ledge In Kings Canyon National Park
10/15/2009 - Tracing the Trail of the Ancients From Mesa Verde National Park to Hovenweep National Monument
10/15/2009 - National Park Service Launches Another Website to Help You Plan Your Next National Park Trip
10/15/2009 - Standing Tall for 150 Years, the Lighthouse At Cape Lookout National Seashore Will Be Repaired and Reopened to the Public
10/15/2009 - Great Smoky Mountain National Park Is Updating Its Approach to Fire Management – Comments are Welcome
10/14/2009 - Winter Reaches the High Country Of Yosemite National Park
10/14/2009 - Search Under Way For Missing Backpackers in Kings Canyon National Park
10/14/2009 - An Unusual View of the Arnica Fire That Burned in Yellowstone National Park This Past Summer
10/14/2009 - Talking With National Park Service Director Jon Jarvis, the Interview
10/14/2009 - Forest Service Drawing Line On Mountain Bikers in Potential Wilderness, National Park Service Agrees
10/14/2009 - It's Official: Picky Yosemite National Park Bears Prefer Their Meals in Minivans
10/14/2009 - Reader Participation Day: What Epic Treks in the National Parks Are on Your To-Do List?
10/14/2009 - National Park System Quiz 71: Are There Any?
10/13/2009 - French Flyover is Prelude to the Upcoming Yorktown Victory Celebration
10/13/2009 - Is It "Elitist" To Try to Visit All 58 National Parks?
10/13/2009 - Is It Too Early To Plan A Winter Trip to Rocky Mountain National Park? Naaaahhhh.
10/13/2009 - National Park Service Looking For Ideas For Managing the Captain John Smith National Historic Trail
10/13/2009 - Pruning the Parks: Castle Pinckney National Monument (1933-1956)
10/12/2009 - Traveler's Checklist: Biscayne National Park
10/12/2009 - What to Do With the "Dune Shacks" At Cape Cod National Seashore?
10/12/2009 - Columbus Day is also Native American Day
10/12/2009 - Jon Jarvis Supports More Official Wilderness in National Park System
10/11/2009 - Mammoth Cave National Park Explains Plans To Restore Tour Trails In The Cave
10/11/2009 - A Conversation With Jon Jarvis, the New Director of the National Park Service
10/11/2009 - Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks Set to Work on EIS for Yellow-Legged Frog Recovery
10/11/2009 - Melting Permafrost May Help Explain Why Many Denali National Park Wetlands Are Drying Up
10/11/2009 - On the Run: Racers See Four National Parks on Two Feet in One Day
10/10/2009 - Glacier National Park Issues Its Annual Warning to Hunters: Stay Out Of the Park
10/10/2009 - Wintry Conditions Descending On Yellowstone National Park
10/10/2009 - Maine North Woods National Park: Has The Time Arrived?
10/10/2009 - Historic Fire Tower at Acadia National Park To Open To Public For One Day
10/09/2009 - Greenpeace Activists Exploited Security Failings at Mount Rushmore National Memorial To Stage Protest
10/09/2009 - By the Numbers: The Mighty Mississippi River
10/09/2009 - Restoration Efforts Show National Park of American Samoa Artifacts in Better-Than-Expected Condition
10/09/2009 - Visiting the Mighty Mississippi...in Minnesota at the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area
10/09/2009 - Where Can You Find the Best Fall Foliage In the National Park System? Here Are Ten Contenders
10/09/2009 - The Priceless Value of Parks: Wounded Warrior Rafting Trip at Dinosaur National Monument
10/09/2009 - When Visiting the National Parks, Look for Historic Lookouts
10/08/2009 - Interior Issues Report on Drilling Near National Parks in Utah
10/08/2009 - Acadia National Park Reopens East Face Trail After Three Years of Repairs
10/08/2009 - Too Many Deer Has Valley Forge National Historical Park Officials Turning To Sharpshooters
10/08/2009 - Mystery Photo No. 15 Revealed: A Brainy Block
10/08/2009 - Exhibit at Great Smoky Mountains National Park Part Art Show, Part Biodiversity Display
10/08/2009 - A New Route for Mule Trips at Grand Canyon National Park
10/08/2009 - With the Sesquicentennial Anniversary of the Civil War Less Than Two Years Off, Get Ready To Revisit History in National Parks