By Interior Newswire | Jan 26, 2023
News Release: Quick Facts. Location: Lost Mine Trail. Amenities. 1 listed. Scenic View/Photo Spot. As you traverse these switchbacks, take a moment to turn and look at the view into the Chisos Basin. With your eyes, follow the paved road as it enters the Basin and you should be able to make out the features of the campground.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 26, 2023
News Release: Quick Facts. Location: Oswego, NY. Significance: historic fort and site of only US shelter for Jewish refugees during WWII. Designation: National Register of Historic Places. MANAGED BY: New York State; Safe Haven Museum and Education Center. Fort Ontario is a historic military installation located in Oswego...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 26, 2023
News Release: This is Part 2 of "What Daddy and Mother Did in the War," by their daughter, Stephanie Johnson Dixon. Read Part 1 first.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 26, 2023
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) Alaska fire management program hosted a seven-person all-woman wildland fire crew through the Student Conservation Association (SCA) in 2022 - the first of its kind for NPS in Alaska.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 26, 2023
News Release: Idaho Transportation Department, Idaho State Historical Society.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 26, 2023
Aquatic Invasive Species Grants to Great Lakes Tribes - Fiscal Year 2023 Great Lakes Restoration Initiative grant opened on Jan. 26.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 26, 2023
News Release: Quick Facts. Location: Kachina Point parking area. Significance: Trailhead for the wilderness area. Amenities. 10 listed. Information, Parking - Auto, Parking - Bus/RV, Picnic Table, Recycling, Restroom, Scenic View/Photo Spot, Trailhead, Water - Bottle-Filling Station, Water - Drinking/Potable. Park at...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 26, 2023
News Release: As part of the Bureau of Land Management’s efforts to support the Biden-Harris administration’s goal to permit 25 gigawatts of solar, wind, and geothermal production on public lands by 2025, the BLM announced today it has leased two parcels, covering approximately 3,045 acres in Millard County, Utah...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 26, 2023
News Release: Quick Facts. Location: Lost Mine Trail. Amenities. 1 listed. Historical/Interpretive Information/Exhibits. The white, yellow, and orange lichen on the rock pillars at this location consist of a fungus and an algae in a sumbiotic relationship. Because they absorb nutrients from rainwater, lichen are particularly...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 26, 2023
News Release: Quick Facts. Location: Goodbye Picnic Area has two sections which are accessible from the north or the south on the west side of Munson Valley Road between the Annie Spring Entrance Station and park headquarters. Designation: Picnic Area. Amenities. 7 listed. Parking - Auto, Parking - Bus/RV, Picnic Table...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 26, 2023
News Release: Quick Facts. Location: Lost Mine Trail. Amenities. 2 listed. Historical/Interpretive Information/Exhibits, Scenic View/Photo Spot. You have reached the end of the Lost Mine Trail. Lost Mine Peak, at 7,650 feet in elevation, dominates the skyline to the north across Upper Pine Canyon. The peak's name comes...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 26, 2023
News Release: by Stephanie Johnson Dixon, 2007. Introduction. This project started as a result of watching too much public television. In early October of 2007 PBS ran a series by the documentary filmmaker Ken Burns. This series, “The War," (or as pronounced by an old witness from Alabama who both looked and sounded...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 26, 2023
News Release: Quick Facts. Location: Wilderness access trail from Kachina Point. Significance: Off the Beaten Path Route to Onyx Bridge. Amenities. 1 listed. Scenic View/Photo Spot. When you get to the bottom of the steep hill, the trail is well-worn and easy to see as it passes between the red badland hills. Please do...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 26, 2023
News Release: This is Part 3 of "What Daddy and Mother Did in the War," by their daughter, Stephanie Johnson Dixon. Read Part 2 first.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 26, 2023
News Release: Quick Facts. Location: Lost Mine Trail. Amenities. 1 listed. Historical/Interpretive Information/Exhibits. About 17 species of oaks are found in the Chisos Mountains. They can be difficult to identify due to their tendency to hybridize between species. Several notable species along this trail include Emory...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 26, 2023
News Release: Quick Facts. Location: 46°18'52.56"N 116°42'38.66"W. Significance: One of the catholic missions established on the Nez Perce Reservation. OPEN TO PUBLIC: No. MANAGED BY: Private property. Protestant missionaries had an established presence in Nez Perce country for over twenty years when Father Cataldo arrived...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 26, 2023
News Release: Quick Facts. Location: Lost Mine Trail. Amenities. 1 listed. Historical/Interpretive Information/Exhibits. One of the more common birds heard and seen in the Chisos Mountains is the rufous-crowned sparrow. A larger sparrow, at six inches in length, rufous-crowned sparrows are an easier sparrow to identify.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 26, 2023
News Release: This article was developed from two oral history interviews that Perri Meldon and Lu Ann Jones conducted with Eileen Szychowski in January and February 2022. It is part of the initiative Telling Our Untold Stories: Civil Rights and the National Park Service. The interview will be archived at the NPS History Collection, Harpers Ferry Center.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 26, 2023
News Release: Golden Gate National Recreation Area currently occupies six buildings at the Presidio that house the park’s Facility Management division. Three of these buildings are administered by the Presidio Trust and three by the National Park Service (NPS). This project funded by the Great American Outdoors Act...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 26, 2023
News Release: Quick Facts. Location: The second of three picnic areas on south Hwy 62. Amenities. 1 listed. Picnic Table. Upstream from this picnic area three streams merge into Annie Creek increasing the water volume as it spills over boulders creating the falls. The sound of cascading water bellows up through the...
