By Interior Newswire | Mar 7, 2023
News Release: April 2022 - In 2018, the Presidio of San Francisco’s live “Hawk Cam" was established above a nest located 100 feet up in one of the blue gum eucalyptus trees near the Main Post. Over a few seasons, it’s given all of us an up-close and personal look at nesting raptors in the park-and it’s back. The same breeding resident pair of hawks have returned to their nest four years later - and two chicks hatched starting on Easter weekend!.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 7, 2023
News Release: I spent weeks informally observing desert bighorn sheep during the 2020 pandemic closure. My observations show where to take our research.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 7, 2023
News Release: A little advance trip planning can ensure that your only surprises are happy ones. Check out our top 10 insider tips to #PlanLikeAParkRanger.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 7, 2023
News Release: We love hiking in our national parks!.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 7, 2023
News Release: KINICHI WATANABE. Family # 3705. Camp: Manzanar, CA (Address: 27-7-1) and Tule Lake, CA. My father came to the United States in 1920 at the age of 16. He worked as a farm worker in Utah and California. My mother was born in Long Beach, CA, but she grew up in Japan. At the age of 18, she returned to the...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 7, 2023
News Release: In spring 2022, Cuyahoga Valley National Park (CVNP) is completing a $2 million project to remove 33 vacant structures and restore the land as forest. These buildings were non-historic. The properties were acquired decades ago as the park was established. This long-anticipated project was made possible by funding from the Great American Outdoors Act (GAOA).
By Interior Newswire | Mar 7, 2023
News Release: The Civil War deeply affected the Longfellow family. Three close relatives fought for the Union during the conflict: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s son Charles, nephew Stephen Longfellow, and his wife’s half-brother Nathan Appleton Jr. All three were wounded in action.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 7, 2023
News Release: The park offers diverse riding opportunities to explore the Guadalupe Mountains. Sixty percent of the trails are open to stock use. Those closed to stock are difficult to maintain, or pass through unique and fragile areas intolerant of such use. Stock manure droppings introduce exotic plants that displace native vegetation.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 7, 2023
News Release: Inside the Washington Beltway lies a portion of the Potomac Gorge, a haven for thousands of animals and plants. Some are yet to be described.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 7, 2023
News Release: Floresville - El Camino Trail Exhibits Audio Description (Beer Warehouse).
By Interior Newswire | Mar 7, 2023
News Release: Quick Facts. Location: The picnic table at the Observation Deck above the Point Reyes Lighthouse is located 0.5 miles (0.8 km) west of the parking lot at the western end of Sir Francis Drake Boulevard, Inverness, California. Geographic Coordinates: 37.99645, -123.02099. Amenities. 5 listed. Picnic Table...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 7, 2023
News Release: HANK UMEMOTO. Family # 8648. Camp: Manzanar, CA. Address: 30-2-3. Uncertainty filled the air as we departed the farm in Florin which our parents had and devoted 32 years in to making and accepted the evacuation as just another formidable interruption in our lives. I would rather have the Japanese Americans...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 7, 2023
News Release: After a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic, and in recognition National Volunteer Week and National Park Week, a specialized group of volunteers returned to service this week and reboarded the Amtrak - National Park Service Trails & Rails program. Once again, Trails & Rails volunteers will share information about places of interest and significant cultural, natural, and historic areas with passengers along specific Amtrak routes.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 7, 2023
News Release: First impressions are important, and our Fordyce Bathhouse Visitor Center volunteers make sure visitors have a great one! They’re the first smiling face guests see when they enter the building, they’re always ready to share the history of our city's bathing industry, and they are happy to answer any...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 7, 2023
News Release: Boise, Idaho- Trainers approved to adopt a wild horse or burro gathered from overpopulated public rangelands across the West will pick up their animal March 3 - 4 from 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. at the Boise Wild Horse Off-Range Corrals. This pick up launches the journey for both horse, burro and handler to prepare for competition during the 2023 annual Mustang Mania Trainer Incentive Program (TIP), June 30- July 1, in Nampa, Idaho.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 7, 2023
News Release: We are celebrating our interns and fellows and the work they do all April long for National Internship Awareness month! You may have heard of cultural resources, but what exactly does this work entail and what type of work do interns and fellows do?
By Interior Newswire | Mar 7, 2023
News Release: At the Midwest Archeological Center, archeologists travel to National Park sites across the country and work to discover, document, and preserve the past. These pages illustrate some of the most common activities archeologists do - like mapping artifacts or other evidence we find of people in the past, discovering sites with remote sensing technology, and excavating sites.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 7, 2023
News Release: Quick Facts. Location: Presidio La Bahía is across the San Antonio River, 1/4 mile south of the park on U.S. highways 183 and 77A. Significance: Presidio La Bahía is one of the world's finest examples of a Spanish frontier fort. It is also the most fought over fort in Texas history, having seen participation...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 7, 2023
News Release: Why do I need to use a flashlight with a red light to view stars?
By Interior Newswire | Mar 7, 2023
News Release: ARTHUR LOREN WILLIAMS. Camp: Manzanar, CA. Address: D-5 Administrative Housing. My grandfather Arthur F. Williams and his three brothers moved from Bradford, PA, to work in the California oil industry around 1900. My grandfather bought an apple ranch from his brother Leroy in 1912. It was located at Manzanar...
