News and reports from the Department of the Interior.

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...

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...

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.

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...

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.

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?

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.

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...

News Release: Why do I need to use a flashlight with a red light to view stars?

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...

News Release: Hunter Miles Davis found himself at the National Park Service when he came across an internship opportunity through the Greening Youth Foundation in 2018. He knew he wanted to do something with music and decided to take a chance and apply. He was attending Hampton University at the time. The job was...

News Release: *Note: What follows is text that is displayed on a panel next to a video touch screen inside the Nature Center.

News Release: LAS CRUCES, N.M. - In an effort to improve the nation’s energy infrastructure and help meet President Biden’s goal of a zero-carbon electricity sector by 2035, the Bureau of Land Management has approved the La Mesa Gen-Tie Project in Doña Ana County, southeast of Las Cruces in Anthony, New Mexico.

News Release: Quick Facts. Location: Rancho de las Cabras is managed by the National Park Service as part of San Antonio Missions National Historical Park in San Antonio, Texas. You can visit Rancho de las Cabras as part of a guided tour with a park ranger from San Antonio Missions National Historical Park. Significance:...

News Release: If Ulysses S. Grant had lived in the 20th century, he probably would not have been a famous general and president. He most likely would have been a well-known jockey or trainer. He may have been the Eddie Arcaro1 of his time, or the Woody Stephens2 of his day. When he graduated from West Point in 1843...