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Created by dipity on May 31, 2009
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The quiet waters of the Waskesiu River invite exploration by canoe. The riverbanks are rich, green and teem with life. The 2 km Waskesiu River Trail crosses the river by bridge several places. The river and the self-interpreted nature trail alongside in Prince Albert National Park of Canada in Saskatchewan are a must-see on any visit.
See never-befre-sen fotage of President Obama and his family's visit to Yellowstone National Park in the summer of 2009, following a long tradition of Ame...
Historian to discuss 1930s 'Ice Peaks' national park proposalLongview Daily NewsIn the '30s, the National Park Service set its sights on a new park along the Cascade crest from Canada to the Columbia River (Mount Rainier was already a ...
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Voyageurs National Park's anniversary celebrations start next weekFOX 21 OnlineINTERNATIONAL FALLS - Minnesota's only national park is celebrating its 35th anniversary this year, and special events start next week. ...
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St. George resident leaves his stamp on celebrationsSalt Lake TribuneA coin designed by Robert Kent of St. George for the centennial of Zion National Park is on sale at the park's bookstore. ...
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Frequent forest fires scorch national parkTimes of IndiaMUMBAI: Frequent and uncontrolled forest fires of varying intensities have been recorded at Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) in Borivli. ...and more »
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Telegraph.co.ukEaster activities are in full effect in the Washington areaNBC WashingtonYou just need some knowledge about the country's national parks. The National Park Foundation is holding what it's calling its "Egg-cellent Egg-venture. ...Thousands set to enjoy Easter outdoor activities across stateSalt Lake TribuneBeeping Easter Eggs HuntedWOWTEaster egg huntsOmaha World-HeraldYork News-Timesall 661 news articles »
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Chicago TribuneNational Park Week celebratedStockton RecordBy The Record Entry fees will be waived at national parks such as Yosemite and Sequoia the week of April 17-25 in honor of National Park Week, according to ...Make your national park plans nowChicago TribuneNational parks plan week of free admissionRV News ServiceNational Park Week AnnouncedAbout - News & Issues (blog)Wyoming Business Report -Staunton News Leader -Examiner.comall 11 news articles »
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Baltimore SunWashington ready for start of National Cherry Blossom FestivalWashington PostThe National Park Service, with the help of "Paddles the Beaver," prepares for the upcoming cherry blossom festival and the increase in visitors to the area ...Spring is blossomingGreensboro News & Record (blog)The National Cherry Blossom FestivalBuzzy Bloggers (blog)Cherry blossoms to bloom early in DCNewsday (subscription)Gather.com -WJZ -Merinewsall 109 news articles »
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New York Times (blog)New Amtrak Web Site Goes to National ParksNew York Times (blog)By INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE Amtrak's new Web site, amtraktoparks.com, allows users to see the nearest Amtrak route to national park sites in the United ...Amtrak links national parks onlineEasyvoyageNew Amtrak Site Takes You to the Parks!About - News & Issues (blog)all 3 news articles »
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Washington PostQuarters Will Feature ParksNew York TimesThe United States Mint will start circulating quarters honoring national parks and other national sites in April. ...Quarters to recognize national parksUSA TodayUS Mint unveils new quarters with national parksThe Associated PressNational Parks Will Star in Latest Quarter RedesignWall Street JournalKMPH Fox 26 -San Francisco Chronicle -Asheville Citizen-Timesall 456 news articles »
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...Park in Arizona; and Mount National Forest in Oregon. The U.S. Mint has unveiled design of new quarters featuring four national parks and a national forest. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and mint director Ed Moy on Wednesday unveiled designs for quarters...
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Seattle TimesStewart L. Udall dies at 90; Interior secretary championed national parksLos Angeles TimesStewart L. Udall, who as Interior secretary in the 1960s vastly expanded the country's system of national parks and monuments and ...Stewart Udall: An appreciationSeattle Post Intelligencer (blog)Stewart UdallSalt Lake TribuneNational Parks Champion, Stewart L. Udall Dies at 90TimesNewsline.comWashington Post -Merced Sun-Star -Telegraph.co.ukall 617 news articles »
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...reason to kill a bear outside a sanctioned hunt -- would be "fully investigated." Banks also hopes that more guns in the national parks won't result in a resurgence of bad behavior. It used to be a common practice years ago to shoot at sea lions or bears...
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Anchorage Daily News
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...Ken Burns' recent documentary series recounted the history of America's national parks and what they've meant to this country. Commentator Jennifer Nagorka wonders if the parks mean as much to us now. COMMENTARY: My family never went to expensive resorts when...
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...2003. “Meeting him in the making of our film … I got to understand the vital role George played in the long story of the national parks,” Duncan said. National parks were expanded from scenic vistas to include important historical sites, such as Civil War...
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Anderson Independent-Mail
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...is being launched at a Countryside Council for Wales conference today to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the first national parks. Wales has three national parks covering the Brecon Beacons, the Pembrokeshire coast and Snowdonia. Together with Areas of...
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Wales Online
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...connected to what’s going on, like Martin Luther King, Jr., and layering on the rustic Americana music. As the national parks system becomes a success, more and more parks are added, more and more players enter the story, and Burns’ storytelling grows increasingly...
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The A.V. Club
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...agencies beholden to extractive industries and to expanding the federal wilderness system. Wilderness — which, like national parks, only Congress can designate — offers a protective overlay for federal land regardless of the agency managing it (be it the...
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Hartford Courant
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...of National Park Service Retirees (CNPSR) and former superintendent of Shenandoah National Park in Virginia, said: “National parks are often referred to as the ‘canaries in the mine shafts’ when it comes to climate change. By their very characteristics and...
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Sustainable Business
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...Spencer of the NRDC said that although the report wasn't timed for the recent PBS documentary series about the national parks by filmmaker Ken Burns, there's a link: Treasured American lands again need protection. This time, however, he said, the parks have...
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Contra Costa Times
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...Mountain Climate Organization and a principal author of the report, said that climate change was "the greatest threat our national parks have ever faced." The Everglades, Biscayne and Dry Tortugas national parks could be swamped by rising seas if climate trends...
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...Spencer added. The parks are experiencing a rare moment in the national spotlight, largely thanks to the television series “National Parks: America’s Best Idea” now airing on PBS, the work of award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns. The report’s sponsors...
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Christian Science Monitor
http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2009/10/02/us-national-parks-endangered-by-climate-change/
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...Parks Wednesday we want to turn the spotlight on the lesser-known areas in the US National Parks system. Among the 58 National Parks there are a number that many people have never heard of, and beyond the true National Parks there are the several hundred other...
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Lonely Planet
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Here's a Fiesta Movement video I made about my recent trip to Yosemite National Park!
www.pbs.org Writer, journalist and wilderness activist Robert Sterling Yard, as featured in Ken Burns's newest film, THE NATIONAL PARKS: AMERICA'S BEST IDEA, premiering Sunday-Friday, September 27-October 2, 2009, once described the national parks as a place where all are "just Americans." For more information on the film, visit www.pbs.org
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...retired National Park Service executives. The panel held five public hearings at national parks across the country. "The national parks truly are America's best idea, and these recommendations will make the national parks even more central to the lives of...
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Singer Alison Krauss describes an important and scarring memory of a bird and a national park in this interview before performing in a concert in New York's Central Park in Sept. 2009 in celebration of the Ken Burns documentary series THE NATIONAL PARKS: AMERICA's BEST IDEA. Krauss and a variety of other musicians participated in the Central Park concert. For more information about THE NATIONAL PARKS: AMERICA's BEST IDEA go to www.pbs.org To see photos of the concert to go: www.flickr.com...
Folk singer Peter Yarrow talks about why he feels strongly about participating in a concert in New York's Central Park in celebration of the Ken Burns documentary series THE NATIONAL PARKS: AMERICA's BEST IDEA. Yarrow and other a variety of other musicians are participating in the Central Park concert. For more information about THE NATIONAL PARKS: AMERICA's BEST IDEA go to www.pbs.org
www.pbs.org Ken Burns's newest film, THE NATIONAL PARKS: AMERICA'S BEST IDEA, premiering Sunday-Friday, September 27-October 2, 2009, showcases hypnotic footage of glowing lava from a Hawaiian volcano in as it streams into the ocean. Writer Dayton Duncan describes the exhilarating experience of witnessing this creation of new land. For more information on the film, visit www.pbs.org
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The National Parks Junior Ranger Program name alone would have convinced me, as a kid, to run the other way. Perhaps my grandchildren would have thought the idea of a National Parks Junior Ranger Program was on
the dorky side of life too, if they hadn'
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Mount Rushmore: Telling America's Stories focuses on the new interpretive program at Mount Rushmore National Memorial, spearheaded by Supt. Gerard Baker. In addition to telling the traditional stories of the carving of the mountain and of the four presidents memorialized there, the program now highlights the stories and cultures of all Americans, including American Indians, imparting a more complex and complete understanding of the National Parks and the legacies they protect. For more on ...
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(CNN) -- From Yellowstone National Park to the Everglades, America's 391 national parks are in need of repair -- and thanks to the economic stimulus signed into law, help is now underway.
President Obama and his family visit the Grand Canyon in
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...out into nature because they are set aside for that use exclusively, as opposed to public lands or national forests. “The national parks don't have multiple uses going on inside them,” he said. Joan Anzelmo, superintendent of Colorado National Monument in...
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...out into nature because they are set aside for that use exclusively, as opposed to public lands or national forests. “The national parks don't have multiple uses going on inside them,” he said. Joan Anzelmo, superintendent of Colorado National Monument in...
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Colorado has 11 of the United States' 391 national parks, offering visitors everything from hiking and biking to spectacular landscapes and wildlife. In yet another example of the federal government's recent generosity, every national park across the
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www.pbs.org Author Bill Cronon discusses the impact that cars had on family vacations taken in the parks in the 1950s in this clip from Ken Burns's newest film, THE NATIONAL PARKS: AMERICA'S BEST IDEA, premiering Sunday-Friday, September 27-October 2, 2009, at 8 pm ET/PT. For more information on the film, visit www.pbs.org
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The federal government must take decisive action to avoid "a potentially catastrophic loss of animal and plant life," in the National Parks, according to a new report which details the impact of global warming on the nation's most treasured public
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...distance. Visit nps.gov for details and interactive maps. Activities for a variety of skill levels/interests: Most of the national parks have at least one trail short and easy enough for little kids. The Junior Ranger program — which requires attendance at...
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Denver Post
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...atmosphere and hitches a ride back to Earth on bits of rain and And, more often in recent decades it has found its way to national parks, detected by a network of air and precipitation monitors. The latest data from the Park Service, which analyzed trends...
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Salt Lake Tribune
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... The latest data from the Park Service, which analyzed trends from 1998 to 2007, raises particular concern about seven national parks and monuments in Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and Washington state. "Nitrogen is a fertilizer. It's used...
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Denver Post
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...the loss of those animals, such as giraffes and impala, which need wooded areas. People living in communities surrounding national parks can play a part in the losses because they may be antagonistic to the wildlife, seeing it as a threat to farming or their...
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Christian Science Monitor
http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2009/07/16/national-parks-not-always-refuges-for-kenyan-wildlife/
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...for moose, bears, whales, and other wildlife. Author Wallace Stegner (echoing Englishman Lord Bryce) famously declared national parks "the best idea America has ever had." Travelers wholeheartedly agree: there are nearly 300 million visits to parks each year....
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KIVITV.com
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...know the potential consequences of closing the parks, given the agreement," said David Siegenthaler, a program manager at the National Park Service. The government has conveyed six parcels to California under the Federal Lands to Parks Program, which is intended...
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Los Angeles Times
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...with a $26 billion-plus shortage and is searching for ways to save money. John Jarvis, Pacific regional director for the National Parks Service, wrote Gov. Schwarzenegger on June 8 that closed state parks would be seized by the federal government. The state...
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Capitol Weekly
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www.pbs.org PBS airdate: Sunday-Friday, September 27-October 2 at 8:00 pm (check local listings) www.pbs.org Filmmaker Ken Burns explores the history and splendor of, and the public passion for, America's national parks in this 12-hour, six-part documentary series. From Acadia to Yosemite, Yellowstone to the Grand Canyon, the Everglades to the Gates of the Arctic, the series explores the stories of people who were willing to devote themselves to saving some precious portion of the land they ...
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MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK, Wash. (AP) — Karen Lasch and her family recently pulled over their car near a glacier-fed creek in Mount Rainier National Park, piling out for a glimpse of the snowcapped peak in the distance.
But she hadn’t given much
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Park Hills Daily Journal
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...and Fire Island National Seashore in New York, have already created plans. Sixty parks are developing their own plans. National parks, like other federal agencies, have already been under orders to reduce energy and gasoline use. But the Obama administration...
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
http://www.startribune.com/local/48846397.html
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...to keep its privatization plan alive. Only our federal representatives especially Pallone and Rep. Rush Holt can save our national parks. They should insist on complete transparency in evaluating Wassel's financials. Better yet, they should end this Fort Hancock...
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Asbury Park Press
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...help to clear up the problem. First up, over at GORP.com they've put together a list of the their picks for the Top Ten National Parks for Wildlife Viewing. The parks that make this list are not only amazing for the wildlife that is on display however, but...
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The Adventure Blog
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