Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area

Creating Cape Cod National Seashore Forced the National Park Service to Think Outside the Box

Submitted by Bob Janiskee on August 7, 2008 - 10:04am

Cape Cod National Seashore was established 47 years ago on August 7, 1961. To create the new park, the National Park Service had to “think outside the box” and employ greenlining and cooperative stewardship.

National Park System Quiz 13: Mountains

Submitted by Bob Janiskee on July 30, 2008 - 4:00am

A mountain is “a natural elevation of the earth's surface having considerable mass, generally steep sides, a discernible peak, and a height greater than that of a hill.” This week’s quiz will see how much you know about mountains in the national parks. Answers are at the end. No peaking, please.

"BioBlitz" Coming to Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area

Submitted by Kurt Repanshek on May 28, 2008 - 8:19am

When people talk about national parks, the discussion usually revolves around vacations, not biodiversity. And yet, America's national parks are biodiversity sinks. How extensive those sinks are, well, that's a good question. It's one researchers are trying to answer through All Taxa Biodiversity Inventories.