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News Release: Quick Facts. Location: 46°23'38.46"N 116°48'8.47"W. Significance: The first U.S. Army installation on the Nez Perce Reservation. OPEN TO PUBLIC: No. MANAGED BY: Bureau of Indian Affairs. Amenities. 1 listed. Historical/Interpretive Information/Exhibits. In 1860, Elias D. Pierce found gold on a tributary of...
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News Release: Quick Facts. Location: Atop Last Stand Hill, across from the 7th Cavalry Memorial. Significance: Honoring the tribes that fought in the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Amenities. 2 listed. Historical/Interpretive Information/Exhibits, Wheelchair Accessible. The Spirit Warrior Memorial helps to shed light on...
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News Release: The Regional Director’s Awards for Natural Resources recognize employees who go above and beyond in performance of their duties toward specific achievements. Consideration begins within the Region and then moves forward to National level awards. These award winners were chosen from an exceptional pool of submissions within six natural resource award categories. .
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News Release: Connecting with Parks through Science. National parks strike awe in all of us, whether it be through dramatic views, captivating histories, or the knowledge we gain of their fascinating ecosystems. Across the National Park Service (NPS), scientists are uncovering the stories of the land, water, and air...
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News Release: Quick Facts. Amenities. 1 listed. Historical/Interpretive Information/Exhibits. Camarasaurus lentus is a species of sauropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of the Morrison Formation. Camarasaurus lentus was a herbivore, and grew up to fifty feet long, shorter in length than some of its contemporaries...
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News Release: Quick Facts. Amenities. 1 listed. Historical/Interpretive Information/Exhibits. Ceratosaurus is a genus of carnivorous theropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic Morrison Formation. It is known from the Carnegie Quarry at Dinosaur National Monument from a single bone, a premaxilla. This bone is diagnostic...
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News Release: Quick Facts. Location: Island in the Sky district, Canyonlands National Park. Significance: trail. Amenities. 2 listed. Parking - Auto, Trailhead. People seeking a mostly level hike longer than just a mile might enjoy the Murphy Point Trail. It leaves the pavement and vehicle sounds behind, and offers the...
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News Release: Quick Facts. Amenities. 1 listed. Historical/Interpretive Information/Exhibits. Dryosaurus altus is a species of ornithopod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of North America, found in the Morrison Formation. Dryosaurus altus means “oak lizard" in reference to the leaf shaped teeth. It is a plant eating...
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News Release: Quick Facts. Amenities. 1 listed. Historical/Interpretive Information/Exhibits. Barosaurus is a plant eater and the least common of all the sauropods (long-necked dinosaurs) found in the Carnegie Quarry. It is similar to Diplodocus, but has a longer neck and shorter tail. The forelimbs of Barosaurus are...
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News Release: Quick Facts. Location: Jerusalem, NY. Significance: residence of the Public Universal Friend, American preacher who defied binary gender norms. Designation: National Register of Historic Places. OPEN TO PUBLIC: No. The Friend’s Home was the residence of the Public Universal Friend, an American preacher.
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News Release: WASHINGTON - As part of the Biden-Harris administration’s commitment to enhance the resilience of the West to drought and climate change, the Department of the Interior today announced a $728 million investment to deliver clean, reliable drinking water to rural and Tribal communities, support water conservation ...
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News Release: Podcast 110: Creating the Mississippi Delta Chinese Heritage Museum.
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News Release: The city of Wilmington, North Carolina is a key place in the country's World War II history. Its shipyards, funded by the federal government, produced hundreds of vessels to support the war effort. More than 20,000 people worked in Wilmington's defense industries. For African Americans and women, the...
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News Release: Quick Facts. Amenities. 1 listed. Historical/Interpretive Information/Exhibits. Allosaurus jimmadseni is the second species of Allosaurus found at Dinosaur National Monument. The first specimen of A. jimmadseni was found in the monument. It is much rarer than Allosaurus fragilis and they differ in their...
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News Release: Quick Facts. Location: Island in the Sky, Canyonlands National Park. Significance: trail, granaries. Amenities. 2 listed. Historical/Interpretive Information/Exhibits, Trailhead. Indigenous people once stored foods and medicines in rock structures, called granaries, built into alcoves here. Despite the current...
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News Release: Quick Facts. Amenities. 1 listed. Historical/Interpretive Information/Exhibits. Apatosaurus louisae is a species of sauropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of North America found in the Morrison Formation, and its remains are present on the Wall of Bones at Dinosaur National Monument. Apatosaurus grew...
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News Release: The webinar "Black History is American History: Centering the Long Civil Rights Struggle in DC Area Parks" occured on Aug. 17, 2021. A transcript of this video appears below.
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News Release: In November 2021, staff from Whiskeytown National Recreation Area, John Muir National Historic Site, and SMART Workforce Center in Redding, California met at the Tower House Historic District of Whiskeytown National Recreation Area to re-establish an apple orchard.
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News Release: WASHINGTON - As part of the Biden-Harris administration’s commitment to enhance the resilience of the West to drought and climate change, the Department of the Interior today announced a $728 million investment to deliver clean, reliable drinking water to rural and Tribal communities, support water conservation...
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News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the Biden-Harris administration’s Wildland Fire Mitigation and Management Commission released a report outlining a strategy to meet aerial firefighting equipment needs through 2030. As climate change fuels longer and more intense wildfire seasons, aerial assets bring unique response ...