On average, 11 search and rescue efforts are conducted in National Park Service units every day, and young male hikers, ages 20-29 years, are most likely to require those SAR efforts. full story »
A study published in the October 2009 issue of Journal of Mammalogy found that black bears in Yosemite National Park break into minivans more often than any other vehicle, based on vehicle availability.
American Hiking Society supports a new bill, HR 1912 — the Complete America’s Great Trails Act. The bill which would grant a tax credit to private landowners who provide conservation easements to certified National Scenic Trails.
On Sunday, September 27, turn your TV to PBS for Ken Burns’s documentary The National Parks: America’s Best Idea. A decade in the making, the six-part series explores a uniquely American and radical idea, that the most special places in the nation should be preserved, not for royalty or the rich, but for everyone.
The National Park Service has reopened public comment on a proposed interim rule to manage snowmobile and snowcoach access at Yellowstone National Park. The interim rule would allow up to 318 snowmobiles in the park each day for the next two winters. Public comments are open through September 8.
Visual artists can apply to Denali National Park and Preserve’s 2010 Artist-in-Residence Program. The program allows artists to reside in the park’s historic East Fork cabin for a ten-day period.
The most complete terrain map of the Earth’s surface has been published. The Global Digital Elevation Map is drawn from 1.3 million images, covers 99% of the Earth's surface, and will be free to download and use.
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar recently designated 22 trails in 13 states as newly recognized National Recreation Trails, adding more than 525 miles of trails to the National Trails System.
From the Statue of Liberty and Independence Hall to Yellowstone and Death Valley, the National Park Service will undertake more than 750 projects at parks across the country to create jobs and restore and protect our nation’s parks.
President Barack Obama today signed into law the 2009 Omnibus Public Land Management Act, which designates more than 2 million acres across nine states as wilderness. The federal wilderness designation provides the highest level of government protection from logging and other forms of commercial use and development.
A rare ecosystem in Pennsylvania, the sixth longest cave in Texas, and major fossil sites in Kentucky, New York, and Vermont were recently named National Natural Landmarks.
Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns says he’s been trying to understand how our country works for thirty years. You never answer the question, says Burns. You deepen it. He expands on these questions and others in his new documentary series The National Parks: America’s Best Idea.
All eyes seem to be on Washington, D.C., as Barack Obama prepares to be sworn in as the 44th president of the United States. But, did you know that after the swearing-in ceremony, the inaugural parade, and all of those balls, President Obama and his family will move into a national park?
Every tax dollar spent on national parks resulted in more than $4 in visitor spending, according to the National Park Spending and Payroll Impacts report for 2007.
Over 120,000 Americans are expected to celebrate National Public Lands Day on Saturday, September 27, and honor the 75th anniversary of the Civilian Conservation Corp with a day of volunteer work.
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