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Bahuaja Sonene
Hundreds of species never before seen in a Peruvian..

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 >>..

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

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.

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 .

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...

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 ...

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..

For months, the..

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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PD Editorial: State parks need allies not rivalries - Santa Rosa Press Democrat

PD Editorial: State parks need allies not rivalries
Santa Rosa Press Democrat
If, as the author Wallace Stegner said, EURœnational parks are the best idea we ever had,EUR then closing California state parks has to be one of the worst ideas anyone ever had. The state has marked 70 parks for closure, asserting that it will save about .

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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..

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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National Park Service defense of Occupy action is a muddle - Washington Post

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National Park Service defense of Occupy action is a muddle
Washington Post
Like Yogi, the activists live cheerfully in national parks. They regularly get away with breaking the rules. Most of all, they drive the authorities batty. (EURœYogi Bear is always in the ranger's hairEUR went the cartoon's theme song.) .
Pressure Builds on Occupy DC EncampmentsABC News (blog)
Authorities to end camping at Occupy DC sites; not 'eviction' but 'slow creep .msnbc.com
Occupy DC still stands after National Park Service threatens to clamp down on .New York Daily News
Town Hall -World Socialist Web Site -NEWS JUNKIE POST
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Cebu, C. Visayas forest areas to be divided into zones
A DE-ZONING of Cebus protected forest landscape to divide protected zones from production zones will be completed within the year, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources in Central Visayas (DENR-7) said yesterday. DENR-7 spokesman Eddie Llamedo said they completed the assessment and delineation of boundaries between forestlands, national parks and agricultural lands in Central [.]..

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

Ranger's slaying intrudes on sacred nature of national parks
On my honeymoon, I slept in a tent at Grand Canyon National Park. I have dressed a toddler in a rain poncho to hike in Olympic National Park. In Rocky Mountain National Park, I've been short of breath walking near the Alpine Visitor Center, elevation 11,796 feet...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

National Park Foundation Funding School Field Trips to The .
With hopes of connecting more kids to national parks, the National Park Foundation is underwriting a transportation program to enable classes to take field trips to the National Park System. Under the Ticket To Ride program, ...

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...

Foreigners may have to pay double
THE Johor National Parks Corporation has proposed a 100 per cent increase in the entrance fees for foreigners at its national parks statewide...