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Preserved Habitat Near National Parks Helps Species Conservation
National parks help preserve species native to a particular region, but it appears that some species preservation is more successful if a significant portion of land adjacent to a park also is left as natural habitat...

Preserved Habitat Near National Parks Helps Preserve Species
National parks often are established to help preserve species native to a particular region, but it appears that some species preservation is more successful if a significant portion of land adjacent to a park also is left as natural habitat. The Cerrado region in Brazil has been identified as the most biologically diverse savanna on Earth, and Emas National Park is an important protected area ...

Susan Smartt: National Parks Help Tame the Environmental Crisis
Only five percent of our school children have a meaningful experience in national parks. What happens in the environmental education cloud can increase that number...

National parks consultation in final stages - Craven Herald

National parks consultation in final stages
Craven Herald
A final round of consultation has started into plans to extend the boundaries of two national parks EUR the Yorkshire Dales and the Lake District. Natural England's Board is recommending the extensions EUR which would bring the Howgill Fells and part of .

Obama to announce Veterans Job Corps
President Obama will announce details Friday for a $1 billion Veterans Job Corps that the White House says will put up to 20,000 veterans to work over the next five years on projects to preserve and restore national parks and other federal, state and local lands. Read full article >>..

Is Yosemite's Half Dome being loved to death? - USA TODAY

USA TODAY

Is Yosemite's Half Dome being loved to death?
USA TODAY
By Tracie Cone, AP YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. EUR There was a time not long ago when a climb to the top of Yosemite National Park's Half Dome was a solitary trek attempted by only the most daring adventurers. By Michael Maloney, San Francisco .

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Parks Canada targets large cities as visits decline
With fewer people visiting the country's national parks and historic sites, Parks Canada has hired a consultant to help boost its flagging brand...

Historic Gathering Shapes National Park Services Future
The National Park Service outlined new directives last week to help protect and support national parks nationwide, which include increasing outreach to youth and other populations, using technology to attract more visitors and improve park experiences and nurturing a stronger relationship with local communities. Inspired by the NPSs recent EURœCall to ActionEUR report that highlighted challenges and ...

Snowshoe and Cross-Country Skiing Outings Scheduled for Glacier .
If you live close to Glacier National Park, or are thinking of heading there this winter, consider joining a snowshoe or cross-country ski outing sponsored by the Glacier National Park Fund. The purpose of each outing is to get ...

Harriet Tubman
The commemoration of Black History Month will get a timely and appropriate regional boost this week when a bill is introduced in the House of Representatives to establish a Harriet Tubman..

Historic Gathering Shapes National Park Service's Future - Flathead Beacon

Flathead Beacon

Historic Gathering Shapes National Park Service's Future
Flathead Beacon
Lake McDonald at the Apgar Visitor Center in Glacier National Park. - File photo by Lido Vizzutti/Flathead Beacon By .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address), 02-01-12 The National Park Service outlined new directives last week to help .
Property rights group gets longer comment time on National Park Service .Pasadena Star-News

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Obama plan would hire vets as cops, firefighters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday announced measures to hire Iraq and Afghanistan veterans to restore national parks and work as police and firefighters in a bid to cut veterans' above-average unemployment rate. The announcement followed Obama's vow in the January 24 State of the Union address to form a Veterans Job Corps to create jobs for veterans of the post-September 11 ...

Occupy DC Forcefully Evicted, Protesters Injured, Arrested, Under Pressure from Congress's Richest Member
What had started 12 hours earlier as a politically-tinged eviction of an unsanitary but entirely peaceful encampment had suddenly turned into an aggressive display of force by the..

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Federal dollars fund park summer shuttle system - The Olympian

Federal dollars fund park summer shuttle system
The Olympian
Mount Rainier National Park will receive more than $106000 to operate a shuttle bus system this summer. The funds come from the Paul S. Sarbanes Transit in the Parks program overseen by the US Department of Transportation. More than $40.4 million was .

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National park will celebrate its own diamond jubilee this year - Grough

Grough

National park will celebrate its own diamond jubilee this year
Grough
The park authority has organised a series of art events, including a moorland festival at the Sutton Bank national park centre, in the run-up to the 60th anniversary of the North York Moors gaining national park status, on 28 November.

Take to the rocks in Joshua Tree
From a vantage point atop a stack of angular boulders hundreds of feet above the serpentine main..

Recruiting session for national parks
COHOES EUR” For those who like trains and history, a National Park Service volunteer recruiting session is planned for..

Take to the rocks in Joshua Tree National Park - Summit Daily News

Take to the rocks in Joshua Tree National Park
Summit Daily News
And although these 800000 acres become one of the hottest spots on the planet in summer months, Bill and I think this place is one of the EURœcoolestEUR national parks in the country. The park was created in 1936 during President Franklin Roosevelt's .

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Park, wildlife agencies opposed to strip mine near Utah's Bryce Canyon . - The Republic

Park, wildlife agencies opposed to strip mine near Utah's Bryce Canyon .
The Republic
PAUL FOY AP SALT LAKE CITY EUR” Federal biologists say a strip mine at the backdoor to Utah's storybook Bryce Canyon National Park will wipe out the southernmost population of sage grouse, even as their agency resists a broader effort to protect the bird .
Coal expansion causes riftSt. George Daily Spectrum

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Romney Claims He Doesn't Understand What National Parks Are .
Governor Romney expressed puzzlement this week as to why we have national parks in Nevada. Unless there's a valid, and legitimate, and compelling governmental purpose, I don't know why the government owns so much ...

Occupy D.C. protesters in standoff with
Hundreds of Occupy D.C. protesters stood in solidarity at Washington's McPherson Square Monday as U.S...

Grant Helps Grand Teton National Park Re-sod Historic Dude .
Funding through the National Park Foundation's 2012 Impact Grant program will enable Grand Teton National Park crews to replace sod roofs on historic cabins at the Bar BC Dude Ranch with a grass system that's more ...

For months, the..

The visits have brought e-mails and phone calls from D.C. fans who say they now avoid going to Nats games when the Phillies are in town, and self-congratulatory gloating from Philadelphia fans about Citizens Bank..

Camping in Cataloochee Valley in Great Smoky Mountains National .
The Cataloochee Campground in Great Smoky Mountains National Park doesn't open until March 9 this year, but now is the time to make reservations for this small 27-site campground. Until 2010, visitors had to drive into the ...