News from September 2009
By Interior Newswire | Sep 18, 2009
News Release: Olympic Park Institute (OPI) and Olympic National Park are teaming up with KCTS 9 and the Red Lion Hotel Port Angeles to host a premiere screening of the first episode of Ken Burns’ new documentary “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea.".
By Interior Newswire | Sep 18, 2009
News Release: Fall time is a great time to be outdoors in Colorado and enjoy the natural world. It can be even more enjoyable to share the wonders of nature with your family. This weekend, September 26th-27th, marks the second annual No Child Left Inside Weekend in the Pikes Peak Region - a weekend that honors the...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 18, 2009
News Release: Olympic National Park invites the public to celebrate National Public Lands Day and America’s best idea on Saturday, September 26.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 18, 2009
News Release: U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced today that up to $40 million in funding will be available from the Department of Energy to support design and planning work for the Next Generation Nuclear Plant (NGNP). Next Generation Nuclear Plants will use new, high temperature, gas-cooled reactor technologies...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 18, 2009
News Release: Bar Harbor, ME -- On Aug. 18, 2009, several Acadia National Park employees were recognized for their “above and beyond" contributions to the park. All awards are given to employees who show exceptional dedication to and support of the park mission. Also included was a partner award, given this year...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 18, 2009
News Release: Retired Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Bob Barbee will speak at Beaver Meadows Visitor Center Auditorium in Rocky Mountain National Park on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009. The talk will begin at 7:00 p.m. and is open and free to the public. It is the third Randy Jones Memorial Lecture, jointly sponsored by the University of Colorado’s Center of the American West and the National Park Service.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 18, 2009
News Release: Zion National Park will offer its annual Fee Free Day on Saturday, Sept. 26, 2009, in observance of National Public Lands Day. On that day, the National Park Service will join the other Department of the Interior bureaus; U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service; and Utah State Parks to waive entrance fees including commercial tour entrance fees and transportation entrance fees.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 18, 2009
News Release: If you love the sun, fun, and beauty of our area beaches, it’s time again to show it! Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore is celebrating National Public Lands Day (NPLD) on Saturday, Sept. 26, and inviting the public to help clean up the Lakeshore’s beaches. The national parks have been called...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 18, 2009
News Release: The National Park Service’s Denver Service Center (DSC) today announced the award of a contract to construct a new fish hatchery on the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe Reservation six miles west of Port Angeles, Washington. James W. Fowler Co. General Contractors of Dallas, Oregon will be the prime contractor for construction of this $16,364,094 project funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 18, 2009
News Release: (Corpus Christi, Texas)- Superintendent Joe Escoto announced today Padre Island National Seashore will host a public meeting at 7:00-9:00 pm on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009 at the Malaquite Visitor Center Auditorium to discuss the following proposed projects.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 18, 2009
News Release: As of September 16th, 2009, in areas open to ORV use, night driving is allowed with a night driving permit. There is no cost to the permit and permits are available online at.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 18, 2009
News Release: The pathogen that causes sudden oak death disease in California has a different genetic fingerprint than fungal strains found in nurseries in Oregon and Washington, according to Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists. This discovery, published today in the journal PLoS Pathogens, will allow scientists to distinguish infections in other states as likely having originated from either California or the Pacific Northwest.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 18, 2009
News Release: Superintendent Jock Whitworth has announced that the Weeping Rock Trail in Zion National Park has reopened after being closed by a rockslide on September 2. A 50 foot section of the trail was buried with tons of rock and debris requiring the trail to be closed for visitor safety. The park’s trail crew and an American Conservation Experience volunteer crew removed the rock and debris from the trail and made the necessary repairs to reopen the trail.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 18, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Wind and Solar.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 18, 2009
News Release: This week, National Park Service Rangers from Point Reyes National Seashore and Golden Gate National Recreation Area, agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Marin County Sheriff’s Office, and California Fish and Game entered a marijuana grow site and confiscated over 200 marijuana plants with an estimated street value of $900,000. The site is located along Bolinas Ridge in western Marin County.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 18, 2009
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - This year National Public Lands Day (NPLD) at Grand Canyon National Park will be commemorated with more than the traditional free admission and volunteer opportunities. Park staff and friends will also be celebrating the park’s first Día de la Familia: Una Celebración del Mes de Herencia Hispana (Day of the Family: A Celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month).
By Interior Newswire | Sep 18, 2009
News Release: Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Michael L. Connor today announced the implementation of a new Basin Study Program that will better define options for future water management of Western river basins where climate change, record drought, population increases and environmental needs have heightened competition...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 17, 2009
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano delivered remarks last night at the Domenici Legacy Conference on Public Policy in Las Cruces, N.M.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON - Teresa Vogt, a resident of Anaheim, Calif., pleaded guilty on Sept. 15, 2009, to one count of obstruction of justice before U.S. District Court Judge Dale S. Fischer in Los Angeles, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON - James A. Mattatall, of Torrance, Calif., was convicted Tuesday of criminal contempt by a federal district court in Los Angeles, the Justice Department announced. Mattatall’s conviction relates to his violations of a 2004 permanent injunction that barred him from preparing tax returns for others and representing persons before the IRS.
