Archive

February, 2009

2/26/2009 - Mount Rainier National Park to Test Warning Siren This Weekend
2/26/2009 - Grand Teton National Park: Subterfuge Led to This Masterpiece
2/26/2009 - Paving the Way to Denali National Park & Preserve
2/25/2009 - Another Yellowstone National Park Wolf Reaches Colorado
2/25/2009 - You'll Find Tuff Blocks, Fibrolite Axes and Squirrels with Tufted Ears at Bandelier National Monument
2/25/2009 - Bryce Canyon National Park: This Small Corner of Utah Packs a Colorful Punch
2/25/2009 - National Park Quiz 43: Names
2/24/2009 - South Korean Climber Safe After Being Swept By Avalanche From Half Dome in Yosemite National Park
2/24/2009 - Rocky Mountain National Park Ends Elk Culling for This Winter
2/24/2009 - New Visitor Center Coming to Great Smoky Mountains National Park
2/24/2009 - Cape Hatteras National Seashore Identifies Pre-Nesting Closure Areas For Piping Plover
2/23/2009 - National Park Mystery Plant 1: Will This “Lime-Green Cancer” Derail Everglades Restoration?
2/23/2009 - Why is Clear-cutting Allowed in Japan's Iconic Park, Daisetsuzan?
2/22/2009 - Spammers Are Targeting National Parks Traveler
2/22/2009 - Tredegar Ironworks: A Civil War Icon Preserved at Richmond National Battlefield Park
2/22/2009 - A National Park Service Regional Director Shares His Priority List for 2009
2/21/2009 - What Would Wildlife Say About Concealed Carry in National Parks?
2/21/2009 - Pine Beetle Outbreak Leads to Fewer Campground Sites in Rocky Mountain National Park
2/21/2009 - The Confederate Victory at Brices Cross Roads Did Little to Help the Confederate Cause
2/20/2009 - NPCA, PEER Voice Concerns Over Proposed Mountain Bike Rule Change In National Parks
2/19/2009 - Cape Hatteras National Seashore Announces Opening Dates for Campgrounds
2/19/2009 - Second Century Commission on National Parks Wants To Hear From You
2/19/2009 - "There I Grew Up" – This Park Offers Presidential History in a Unique Package
2/19/2009 - Timucuan Ecological & Historic Preserve is One of the National Park System’s Best Kept Secrets
2/19/2009 - Can You Find the Desert Five-Spot In Death Valley National Park?
2/18/2009 - Secretary Salazar Calls for Review Of Gun Rules in National Parks
2/18/2009 - Bears with a Foot Fetish? Big Bend National Park Offers New Bear Safety Advice
2/18/2009 - National Park Quiz 42: Rocks and Minerals
2/17/2009 - Delicate Arch Road at Arches National Park Reopens After Flood-Inspired Improvements
2/17/2009 - Believe it or Not, Yosemite National Park Once had a Zoo
2/16/2009 - Grand Teton National Park's Wildlife Brigade – Applications Are Now Being Accepted
2/16/2009 - How Will Stimulus Help the Parks? At Great Sand Dunes National Park It Could Mean Reclamation and Restoration
2/16/2009 - Friends of the Smokies to Get First Year Proceeds of Dolly Parton’s New CD
2/15/2009 - With or Without a Stimulus Package, National Parks Can Be Economical Vacation Destinations
2/15/2009 - Major Bike Race Will Affect Yosemite Traffic on February 18, 2009
2/14/2009 - Is San Juan National Historic Site Haunted?
2/14/2009 - Will Recent Storms in Death Valley National Park Fuel A Spring Bloom?
2/14/2009 - Two Rangers Have a Narrow Escape with an Avalanche in Alaska
2/14/2009 - Survey Spots 45 Moose in Voyageurs National Park, Which Puts Total Population Around 80
2/13/2009 - NPCA Applauds National Park System's Cut of Stimulus Package, But Says Much Remains to Do
2/13/2009 - New Lodge Gives You an Opportunity to Better Know Kenai Fjords National Park
2/13/2009 - Upon Further Review: Pocahontas meets Hollywood
2/13/2009 - Heavy Metals Detected in Wildlife of Cape Krusenstern National Monument
2/12/2009 - Bush Administration's Haste Could Doom New Gun Rules In National Parks
2/12/2009 - Ginseng Poachers At Great Smoky Mountains National Park Receive Jail Time
2/12/2009 - Managing Elk in Rocky Mountain National Park
2/12/2009 - Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer
2/11/2009 - Apparent Clumsiness Claims Life Of Famed Bull Elk In Yellowstone National Park
2/11/2009 - Rare Motion Pictures Show Civil War Veterans at the 75th Gettysburg Battle Anniversary Reunion
2/11/2009 - More than Just Another Pretty Lake - Curecanti National Recreation Area
2/11/2009 - National Park Quiz 41: Lincolnalia
2/10/2009 - NPCA, Congressman Issa Battle Over Propriety of Stimulus Funding for National Parks
2/10/2009 - Humane Society of America Critical of Culling Elk in Rocky Mountain National Park
2/10/2009 - Wrangell-St. Elias National Park's Mining History
2/10/2009 - Permit Period Open for Noncommercial Colorado River Runners Through Grand Canyon National Park
2/09/2009 - Logan Pass Improvements Proposed at Glacier National Park
2/09/2009 - Return of the Beach – A Once Popular Site Set for a Comeback at Lake Mead National Recreation Area
2/08/2009 - Are We Properly Caring for Our Ocean-Based National Parks?
2/08/2009 - This Coke's For You, Grand Teton National Park!
2/08/2009 - Battle Your Way through the Traffic and Visit Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park
2/08/2009 - Maine-based Groups Join Fight to Overturn Gun Rule for National Parks
2/07/2009 - If You Can You Squeeze Through an 8.5 x 24-Inch Opening, You Can Take the Spelunking Tour at Jewel Cave National Monument
2/07/2009 - 2008 Visitation to the National Parks Up and Down, But Essentially Flat
2/07/2009 - Lecture Series On Yellowstone Ecosystem and Climate Change On Tap
2/07/2009 - What Lurks Beneath Glacier Bay National Park's Waters?
2/06/2009 - What's Driving Rep. Issa's Opposition to Tackling the National Park System's Backlog?
2/06/2009 - Updated: Murder-Suicide Leaves Two Dead at Grand Canyon National Park
2/06/2009 - Add Olympic National Park to the Destinations With Lodging Deals
2/06/2009 - Olympic National Park Proposing to Erase the Old Boulder Creek Road
2/05/2009 - Book An Early Season Trip to Shenandoah National Park and Save on Lodging
2/05/2009 - Discounted Lodging Available in Glacier National Park this June
2/05/2009 - That's Cold, Doubly So When You Realize the Temperature Was In Great Smoky Mountains National Park
2/05/2009 - Volcanics in the National Parks: They Ain't All Tied to "Redoubt"
2/04/2009 - Elk Culling Under Way in Rocky Mountain National Park
2/04/2009 - Secretary Salazar Scuttles Oil and Gas Leases Near National Parks in Utah
2/04/2009 - Lake Clark National Park's Redoubt Volcano Still Sputtering and Fuming, But No Eruption. Yet.
2/04/2009 - If Science in Lake Clark National Park Is Good, Is It Also Good in Yellowstone National Park?
2/04/2009 - Four "Natural Landmarks" Added to National Natural Landmarks Program
2/04/2009 - National Park Quiz 40: Mission 66
2/03/2009 - Yosemite National Park Rockfall Sprays Cars Near The Ahwahnee Hotel
2/03/2009 - What's Up Next For Voyageurs National Park's Book Club?
2/03/2009 - How Can Yosemite National Park's Magnificent Vistas Be Preserved?
2/02/2009 - Mammoth Cave National Park Still Reeling From Ice Storm
2/02/2009 - On Stimulus Packages, Lobbyists, and Congressfolk
2/02/2009 - Climate Change: How It's Expected to Transform The Face of Glacier National Park
2/01/2009 - "Inland Tsunami" at Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area Wasn't the First of Its Kind

January, 2009

1/31/2009 - Having a Bad Day? Consider the Plight of Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park
1/31/2009 - Pruning the Parks: Papago Saguaro National Monument (1914-1930)
1/30/2009 - Updated: Lake Clark National Park's Redoubt Volcano Begins To Awake, Eruption Thought to be Imminent
1/30/2009 - Paul Hoffman Still Defending His Proposed Changes to the National Park Service's Management Policies
1/30/2009 - Upon Further Review – How Not to Protect Yourself from a Bear
1/30/2009 - What's It Take To Hike At Grand Canyon National Park?
1/29/2009 - Grand Teton National Park Rangers Spending Their Days Rescuing Skiers
1/29/2009 - What Interest Is a Civil War Battlefield in Virginia to Vermont?
1/29/2009 - Sharpshooters To Begin Reducing Elk Herds in Rocky Mountain National Park
1/28/2009 - On Interior Secretaries, National Park Stimulus Funds, And Oil Shale
1/28/2009 - Mammoth Cave National Park Remains Closed Due to Ice Storm
1/28/2009 - National Park Quiz 39: Winter
1/28/2009 - How An Earlier Administration Bolstered The National Parks Through A National Program
1/27/2009 - Senate, House Far Apart on Economic Stimulus Funding for National Parks
1/27/2009 - Group Seeks To Intevene In Court Case Concerning Armed Visitors in National Parks
1/27/2009 - Ice Storm Closes Roads at Mammoth Cave National Park
1/27/2009 - Rangers Catch Snowmobilers Riding Illegally in Yellowstone National Park's Backcountry
1/27/2009 - Climate Change: Glacier National Park's Shrinking Rivers of Ice
1/27/2009 - The World's Top Ten National Parks
1/26/2009 - Planning to Visit Apostle Islands National Lakeshore? Leave Your Gun At Home
1/26/2009 - The Future of the "Gateway Arch" is On the Table—Will You be Part of the Discussion?
1/26/2009 - Rocky Mountain National Park: It Shames the Andes and Alps
1/25/2009 - Great Basin National Park: It's More Than Simply A Cave
1/25/2009 - What's All the Shakin' and Rattlin' Going On At Yellowstone National Park?
1/25/2009 - A Look Into Yellowstone National Park's Geothermal Basement
1/25/2009 - Yellowstone Geologist Worries About What Goes "Bump" At Night
1/25/2009 - When Stephen Mather Called, Bob Yard Came Running
1/24/2009 - Secretary Salazar on Guns in Parks: He'll "Take A Look At It"
1/24/2009 - Aztec Ruins and the River of Lost Souls
1/24/2009 - Post-Inauguration Facts and Figures from the NPS – but Don't Expect a Crowd Estimate
1/24/2009 - Secretary Salazar Mulls Reopening Top of Statue of Liberty
1/23/2009 - A Major Overhaul at Ford's Theatre National Historic Site Raises a Few Eyebrows
1/23/2009 - Interior Secretary Salazar Uses the "S" Word On Second Day at the Office
1/22/2009 - Don't Try this At Home: Driver's Life Saved By Vegetation and Ledge at Colorado National Monument
1/22/2009 - It's Not Too Early To Start Planning This Summer's National Park Vacation
1/21/2009 - Freeze On New Regs Could Impact Efforts to Expand Mountain Biking in National Parks
1/21/2009 - Fatal Glider Crash at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
1/21/2009 - National Park Foundation Loses Its Honorary Chairperson
1/21/2009 - Wanted: National Park Service Director
1/21/2009 - National Park Quiz 38: African Americans
1/20/2009 - National Parks and the Inauguration of President Obama
1/20/2009 - Change.gov and the National Park System Under the Obama Administration
1/20/2009 - After the Inauguration ... Next Up, the Lincoln Bicentennial
1/20/2009 - Pruning the Parks: Whatever Became of Marble Canyon National Monument (1969-1975)?
1/19/2009 - This Park Can Lay Claim to "Tallest" and "First" – and It Was a Real Bargain to Boot
1/19/2009 - Update: Deal Seems to Clear The Way For Construction of the Flight 93 Memorial
1/18/2009 - Humans as "Super-Predators" – New Study Offers Startling Information about Hunting and Fishing
1/17/2009 - Glacier Bay National Park Issues New Cruise Ship Contracts
1/16/2009 - Upon Further Review: Preferential Treatment for Local Residents at National Parks?
1/16/2009 - National Park Icons: Yellowstone’s Roosevelt Arch
1/15/2009 - Sen. Salazar Sails Through Confirmation Hearing
1/15/2009 - Sequoia, Kings Canyon National Parks Low on Snow For Holiday Weekend
1/15/2009 - Lodging Discounts Available At Furnace Creek at Death Valley National Park
1/15/2009 - Climate Change: Fact or Fiction?
1/15/2009 - Friends of Big Bend Land Grant to Help Fund New Orientation Film
1/15/2009 - Why On Earth Would Anybody Want to Do That?
1/14/2009 - Those Dogs Could Hunt! But Not in Glacier National Park
1/14/2009 - Yellowstone National Park: Poster Child For Goofy Gun Laws
1/14/2009 - Echoes of the Cold War in the Tropical Warmth of Everglades National Park
1/14/2009 - National Park Quiz 37: Search and Rescue
1/13/2009 - Second Round of National Park Service "Centennial Projects" Produces $27 Million Worth of Improvements
1/13/2009 - Photography in the Parks: How To Solve Exposure Problems in Snowy Landscapes
1/13/2009 - Commentary: What Would An Economic Stimulus Package for the National Parks Buy Us?
1/12/2009 - Yellowstone National Park's Wolf Population Down More than 25 Percent
1/12/2009 - Forget the Camp, Send Your Kid to Yellowstone National Park This Summer
1/12/2009 - University Researchers Suggest Solution To Yellowstone National Park's Bison Problem
1/12/2009 - What Priorities Should The Next National Park Service Director Address?
1/11/2009 - Greening the Parks: APS Gives a Solar Boost to Grand Canyon’s South Rim Visitor Center
1/10/2009 - Colorado Man Dies While Snowshoeing in Rocky Mountain National Park
1/10/2009 - Deadly Threats You Never Heard of Lurk in Our National Parks
1/09/2009 - Park Rangers, Active and Retired, Lament Change in Gun Rules for National Parks
1/09/2009 - Muir Woods National Monument is More than Really Old, Really Big Trees
1/09/2009 - Judge Plans to Hear Arguments on Gun Rules for National Park
1/09/2009 - One of Our Oldest National Parks was Also the First of Its Kind in the World
1/08/2009 - Here's a Cheat-sheet For Tracking Great Smoky Mountains National Park's Birthday Celebrations
1/07/2009 - Fake USGS Site Urges Evacuation of Yellowstone National Park
1/07/2009 - National Park System Would Gain Official Wilderness Under Omnibus Lands Bill
1/07/2009 - NPCA, Park Retirees File Lawsuit to Halt Change in National Park Gun Rules
1/07/2009 - National Park Quiz 36: Management
1/06/2009 - Avalanche Awareness Clinic Set for Olympic National Park
1/06/2009 - Ski and Snowshoe Outing at Cedar Breaks National Monument Set for Saturday
1/06/2009 - The 110th Congress is Now History – What Were the Results for the NPS?
1/06/2009 - How Many National Park Rangers Does It Take to Cut Down a Tree?
1/05/2009 - Accessibility in the National Park System
1/05/2009 - Rules! Rules! Rules!
1/04/2009 - This Park Combines Scenery and History on a Desert Island
1/04/2009 - Get Me to the Park on Time……..
1/03/2009 - Affiliated Area Review: Chicago Portage National Historic Site
1/03/2009 - Earthquakes Continuing to Rattle Yellowstone National Park