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News Release: Quick Facts. Location: 1100 Pierce Point Road, Inverness, CA. Geo-coordinates: 38.1325, -122.8934. MANAGED BY: California Department of Parks and Recreation. Amenities. 6 listed. Beach/Water Access, Picnic Table, Recycling, Restroom, Showers, Trash/Litter Receptacles. Heart's Desire Beach is part of Tomales...


How does Elodea impact salmon habitat?

News Release: In The Singing Wilderness, author Sigurd Olson writes about loon song and the “high calling of birds" during migration.


Agency Information Collection Activities; Turtle Distribution Database discussed on Feb. 21 by Interior Department

The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Feb. 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


Endangered and Threatened Species; Receipt of Recovery Permit Applications discussed on Feb. 22 by Interior Department

The US Interior Department published a three page notice on Feb. 22, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


Stuart West selected as superintendent of Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park and Curecanti National Recreation Area (Gunnison)

News Release: Quick Facts. Significance: WW2 Buffalo Soldier and Medal of Honor Recipient. Place of Birth: Kansas City, Missouri. Date of Birth: March 18, 1920. Place of Death: Lippoldsberg, Germany. Date of Death: April 7, 1945. Place of Burial: Margraten, Netherlands. Cemetery Name: Netherlands American Cemetery and Memorial...


News Release: Local foods add variety and flavor to menus across the country. From wild huckleberries in Montana to Native American grown wild rice in Minnesota, the United States has an abundance of delicious and sustainable homegrown food options. Providing locally sourced food options on the menu can help you appeal...


News Release: This lesson is part of the National Park Service’s Teaching with Historic Places (TwHP) program.


Celebrating Additional Rivers to the Partnership Wild & Scenic Rivers System

News Release: Quick Facts. Location: Bubble Rock on South Bubble Mountain. Significance: Stop Two of the Acadia Earthcache Course. For the second stop on the Acadia Earthcache Course, hike up South Bubble to Bubble Rock. N 44° 20.470. W 68° 15.045’. Reading. Once there, take a good look at the bedrock below your feet.


Lincoln Home's Black History Month Guest Ranger Series: Luecreasea Horne, Rich Condon, and Jorge  Hernandez

News Release: This article first appeared in the National History Day 2019 Themebook. See their website for more information or visit this page to find more NHD articles about National Park Service resources.


News Release: Meet Michael T. Newman, the Visual Information Media Specialist for Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park!.


News Release: Extend your visit with a stroll along the Towpath Trail. Go north to see exhibits about the valley’s Native American heritage. Head south to see Tinkers Creek Aqueduct, Alexander-Wilson Mill, and Frazee House. The trailhead kiosk by the parking lot can help you plan your walk.


News Release: Family outings can be tricky to coordinate if each person has different interests and abilities. Thankfully, Paradise is a place for your family to explore and discover together. Choose from a variety of hikes and scenic viewpoints, opportunities for learning, and places to sit back and relax with one another.


News Release: You’re having a quiet evening at home when all of a sudden. the lights go out! You take a peek outside and see that your neighborhood-normally filled with house lights, streetlights, and more-is suddenly dark. That’s when something catches your eye. Looking up into the sky you see something you don’t typically see. A splash of thousands of stars across the sky-the Milky Way.


News Release: As you came over the last small dune you may have noticed a dramatic change in the landscape. The location where you now stand exists largely on the outskirts of the Sunken Forest, where fresh water bogs give way to freshwater and saltwater marshes. These marshes are dominated not by trees, but by an...


Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Funding to Restore Sulphur Springs

News Release: Though the Sunken forest is made up of a wide range of tree species, from oaks to maples, pines and cedars, three of the most common species here make up a bulk of the canopy.


News Release: Introduction. Resurgent calderas are the largest volcanic features on Earth. But they are not soaring mountains like composite volcanoes, nor hulking masses like shield volcanoes. They form by ground subsidence after especially large volcanic eruptions that partially empty the underlying magma reservoir...


Winterfest 2023 This Weekend at Denali National Park and Preserve

News Release: Introduction. Summit calderas form on preexisting composite volcanoes at the end of large-volume, climactic eruptions that empty the magma chamber beneath the summit. Caldera-collapse occurs along ring fractures as the summit area founders into the space previously occupied by the shallow magma reservoir.


Reclamation issues snowmelt forecast for Bighorn River Basin

News Release: BILLINGS, Mont. - Reclamation's February forecast of the April through July runoff predicted for the Bighorn River Basin is as follows...


News Release: Introduction. Inverted topography is a classic type of landform in the American southwest with its young monogenetic volcanic fields and rapid arid-land erosion. Many volcanic deposits, whether they are lava flows or ash-flow-tuffs, flow down river valleys and topographic lows and even fill them. Because...


Sumner, Daves and Macon Monuments

News Release: Introduction. Calderas are collapse features that form during large-volume volcanic eruptions when the underlying magma chamber is partially emptied and the ground above it subsides into it. Calderas may form in both silicic (dacitic to rhyolitic) and mafic (basaltic to andesitic) volcanic systems, leading...