US National Parks News Archives

The carols around the National Christmas Tree are going to have some serious star power this year.

BILLINGS, Mont. - Park officials say a new comprehensive plan for development in a north-central region of Yellowstone National Park has been adopted.

The Tioga and Glacier Point roads through Yosemite National Park are closed for the season.

Thousands of years of human activity along the Upper Peninsula's Lake Superior shoreline have come into sharper focus after three years of research.

In one of the largest donations ever made by a private landowner, local conservationist M.C. Davis has donated 930 acres of land to the U.S. Forest Service and the Florida Trail Association.

The National Park Service is soon replacing 273 trees and shrubs hit by disease or just plain wear and tear.

ESTES PARK - John Mack hopped out of his government-issue Ford Escape one sunny mid-November day, and confirmed that a lone wind-toppled tree between campsites at Glacier Basin Campground was a lodgepole pine killed by pine beetles.

The Tower-Roosevelt Comprehensive Plan Environmental Assessment was released last June and a finding of no significant impact was recently signed.

Officials at Grand Canyon National Park say a man's body has been found 200 feet below the canyon's South Rim.

An Idaho woman fell about 1,000 feet to her death Friday while hiking the popular Angel's Landing trail in Zion National Park.

Superintendent Jock Whitworth has announced that Zion National Park recently installed solar photovoltaic systems at the park's South and East Entrance Stations.

Old-fashioned all-wood guardrails along more than half the 460-mile Blue Ridge Parkway aren't much use at stopping cars.

Fresno planners are mulling a shuttle service that that would give visitors a new way to travel between the county and Yosemite National Park.

Visitors to the highest point in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park will find better toilet facilities next year.

Dozens of people who live within the boundaries of the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore have celebrated their final Thanksgiving in their homes.

The theme of the 68th anniversary of the Dec. 7, 1941 attack on Ocahu is But Not in Shame: The Aftermath of Pearl Harbor.

Work will begin soon on the first of four improvement projects on the National Mall funded by the federal economic stimulus package.

Two climbers from the San Jose area recently were rescued from Pinnacles National Monument after they had become stranded due to nightfall, according to a press release from the park.

Feed lots and sheds on a western ranch. NPS photo. 1. The accompanying photo was taken in the only unit in the entire 392-unit National Park System that has the word "ranch" in its name.

Visits to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park were down 4.1 percent in October, compared with the year before.

Malaquite Beach at Padre Island National Seashore in November. NPS photo. If you're headed to Padre Island National Seashore in Texas, leave Fido at home.

Guests at President Barack Obama's first state dinner were being treated to an eye-catching scheme of green and purple, from the green curry surrounding the prawns to the purple floral arrangements paying homage to the peacock, India's national bird.Pumpkin was on the menu, too, with Tuesday's dinner coming just two days before Thanksgiving.Hours ...

With its abundance of outdoor recreation areas, world-class wineries and outstanding restaurants, Northern California can be an overwhelming place to visit.

The 17th Pennsylvania Cavalry monument has been the victim of vandalism over the years and has not been restored completely.

KNOXVILLE - After 80 years, a novel set in the Great Smoky Mountains has finally been published.

A Modesto man who went missing in Yosemite National Park in early November still has not been found, according to park rangers.

Take four friends, an idea for a memorable trip, a year's worth of saving, good planning, and what do you get? An unforgettable trip July 25-Aug. 1 to Glacier National Park, Mont.

The National Park Service opposes renaming Pinnacles National Monument as a "national park." Photo of the High Peaks by Clayton Mansnerus via NPS.

Officials at Bandelier National Monument have removed five unbranded, untagged feral bulls from the northern New Mexico monument.

During its heyday, Murfreesboroa s Fortress Rosecrans was the largest earthern fortress build during the Civil War.

Beside them is one of the excavation pits where the team has found ample evidence that tribal people used the mountain's resources some 7,600 years ago.

Officials at the Grand Canyon are proposing to make the national park one of at least 50 in the country that attempts to counter and respond to global climate change.

The public gets a chance Tuesday to comment or ask questions about a proposed new recreational trail that would link Mount Rushmore National Memorial with the George S. Mickelson trail in the Black Hills.

As Rocky Mountain National Park comes close to attracting 3 million visitors this year, a new study shows the park pumped more than $230 million into the economy of the surrounding region in 2008.

The Danbury Middle School eighth grade class recently took a four-day trip to Gettysburg and Washington, D.C. The students left the Danbury school parking lot at 6:45 a.m. and spent their first day in Gettysburg, Pa.

The hunter who went missing in the Big Cypress National Preserve earlier this week has been found safe.

Date: November 5, 2009 Contact: Rich Weideman , 561-4730 Contact: Chris Powell , 561-4732 The National Park Service is soliciting public comments on a proposal to improve three miles of the California Coastal Trail within the Presidio of San Francisco.

By Joel Davis joeld@thedailytimes.com Originally published: November 17. 2009 3:01AM Last modified: November 16.

Search and rescue team members enter a section of the Big Cypress Preserve seaching for missing hunter Jamey Mosch on Thursday, Nov.

The Lincoln Memorial is expanding beyond its marble temple for those who may not get to visit the site on the National Mall.

Officials are searching for Jamey Mosch in an area near a lake southeast of the Bear Island campground, pictured in the upper righthand corner of this National Park Service map of Big Cypress National Preserve.

The Knoxville Museum of Art just announced the acquisition of a print of "Dawn, Autumn Forest, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee," one of only four published photos from Ansel Adams' trip to the Great Smoky Mountains in 1948.

Nearly 1 million cars drove into the nation's capital in 2008. And though Washington is considered one of the grandest cities in the world, it also hosts some of the most lackluster entrances.

Southwest Florida and state agencies continued the search for Jamey Mosch who went missing almost two days ago in the Big Cypress Preserve while on a hunting trip.

Statues don't get much better than the one atop the Washington Monument. You haven't noticed? There's the father of our country, resigning his commission, wearing his uniform -- and wrapped in a gently flowing toga.

If you've missed it, that's because a true appreciation of the Washington Monument requires traveling to Baltimore, which has the Washington Monument, the very first undertaken in this country to honor our first president. It was completed in 1829. The one in the District, also the work of architect Robert Mills, wasn't begun until 1848 and took forever to finish -- until the end of 1884.

A wet, windy stormed pounded Olympic National Park on Tuesday, leaving behind roads closed by downed trees, floodwaters, and heavy snow.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park rangers said Monday they planned to issue charges in what would be the park's first case of elk poaching.

Thousands of tires from a man-made underwater tire reef have washed up on the shore of Assateague Island as a result of last week's storm.

On Monday, November 9, 2009, many years of work by the members of the Georgia Chapter of the Trail of Tears Association and many others culminated in the signing of a certification agreement between the National Park Service and the Cedartown City Commission.

Yosemite National Park is extending the public scoping period for the Merced Wild and Scenic River Comprehensive Management Plan and Environmental Impact Statement.

Officials say the remnants of Tropical Storm Ida brought severe beach erosion to Long Island's South Shore.

A spokesman for Mount Rushmore National Memorial says Superintendent Gerard Baker is on an unexpected medical leave and that an acting superintendent has taken over for the next several weeks.

A Novato man missing since last week has been found dead on a Marin County beach.

A project to demolish and replace parts of the condemned visitor center at Dinosaur National Monument has gone out to bid.

Officials believe arson was the cause of a fire on land in Raleigh County that's part of the New River Gorge National River property.

Georgia land conservation projects will receive $5.5 million from a massive federal funding bill.

A new law that will allow visitors and recreationists to bring an assembled or functional firearm into the National Park System and the National Wildlife Refuge system will be the target of John W. "Bill" Wade, when he serves as the guest speaker at the Shining Mountains Group annual dinner, Saturday, Nov.

Farming has a long history at Cuyahoga Valley National Park. Cuyahoga Valley Countryside Conservancy photo.

It sits in the woods of Charles County, a monument to a man who -- besides signing the Declaration of Independence -- didn't do much to deserve one.

A view along the Blue Ridge Parkway Friday, Nov. 13, 2009 in North Carolina near Cherokee.

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The National Park Service says it is increasing police patrols to stop illegal off-highway vehicle use and vandalism in wilderness areas in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area southeast of Boulder City.

What is this bird, and what national park would be a good place to look for it? USGS National Biological Survey photo by Alan Williams.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials are investigating the attempted taking of an elk's carcass today in the Cataloochee Valley.

It's a computer-generated spectacle on a massive scale that is completely illogical, wholly unbelievable, and surprisingly fun.

Today is Friday, Nov. 13, the 317th day of 2009. There are 48 days left in the year.

What lessons can be learned from the death of Andy Palmer? US Forest Service photo.

Two animal advocacy groups have filed a lawsuit seeking to delay a plan to shoot hundreds of deer in Valley Forge National Historical Park, west of Philadelphia.

Officials say $500,000 in federal funding has been approved for a visitors center at the Chickasaw National Recreation Area in southern Oklahoma.

From Staff Reports Originally published: November 10. 2009 3:01AM Last modified: November 09.

The Wall That Heals, a traveling half-scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., will be on display on Medford Middle School grounds from today through Sunday.

A coalition of environmental and American Indian groups say they have filed a suit against two federal agencies to stop the mass slaughter of bison that migrate outside Yellowstone National Park in search of food.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner will decide which quarter design will be used to commemorate Yellowstone National Park next year.

EMPLE HILLS, Md. - U.S. Park Police say a man was fatally struck by two U.S. Secret Service vehicles at a Suitland Parkway intersection.

The National Park Service says federal stimulus money will pay for resurfacing of about 60 miles of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park towpath from Hancock to Cumberland.

A federal appeals court panel on Tuesday upheld a 2005 court decision that effectively halted the development of what would have been one of the nation's largest landfills near Joshua Tree National Park.

Rangers in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park found three lost hikers. A news release from the National Park Service on Tuesday said the hikers from Knoxville were all in good condition when rangers located them Monday evening in the Abrams Fall area of Cades Cove.

Dozens of wild bison from Yellowstone National Park might be moved to a Montana ranch owned by billionaire Ted Turner, who plans to keep 75 percent of the offspring for commercial purposes.The animals were spared from a slaughter program meant to protect Montana's cattle industry from a disease carried by many buffalo.The plan was to use the spared ...

LAKE MEAD NATIONAL RECREATION AREA, Nev. -- The federal Interior Department says it'll spend $16.7 million in stimulus funds to improve roads at Lake Mead National Recreation Area in southern Nevada.

U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander announced that the conference report to the Interior appropriations bill he co-authored and that passed the Senate today will fund a number of conservation efforts across Tennessee, including increased funding for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and other national parks, the Land and Water Conservation Fund, and ...

To try DC Central Kitchen's house-brined pickles, click here for the recipe. Just a couple of blocks from the Washington Monument, the air carried the ripe, green scent of tomato plants, which were nestled in planters made from salvaged oak and locust planks.

Construction is wrapping up for the winter on part of the major reconstruction of the Going to Sun Road in Glacier National Park.

Pinedale's water and sewer districts should consider dissolving and be absorbed by the city of Fresno, a countywide agency recommended.

Yellowstone National Park officials will use $4.68 million in federal stimulus money to replace a 50-year-old wastewater treatment facility at Madison Junction.

Editor's note: This is the first in a year-long series the Citizen-Times is writing about the 75th anniversary of the Blue Ridge Parkway, ending with the final celebration on Sept.

Instead of leading to the Washington Monument though, the walkway will be a path to a clock tower on a new Circuit Court building beside Hampton's Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court and General District Court.

Reservations are being accepted now for the season's last lantern tour of the Stones River Battlefield, which will take place Saturday.

Work has started on the Ramirez Solar House at the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area.

Smokestack scrubbers will eliminate most of the sulfur emissions from the coal-fired Kingston Fossil Plant, but they will also produce a new waste stream for a site still engaged in a $1 billion cleanup from a massive ash spill.

Is there oil beneath this abandoned jetport in Big Cypress National Preserve? Historical Museum of Southern Florida photo.

The National Park Service says Hot Springs residents will see smoke rising from North Mountain in the middle of the city, but they shouldn't be concerned.

The man who survived a truck barreling over the edge of a cliff near Cabrillo National Monument is meeting his rescuers.

Yosemite National Park will offer free admission on Veterans Day. Free admission on Wednesday, Nov.

Airborne nitrogen pollution from vehicle exhaust and farm fertilizer is turning algae in the alpine lakes of Rocky Mountain National Park into junk food for fish, a study says.

Avid hikers, Dr. Paul Hendricks, a Kings Mountain dentist, and his wife, Mary Ann, didn't wait for a formal invitation to start enjoying the new Gateway Trails portion ready for a grand opening Saturday.

TripAdvisor, the world's largest travel community, recently kicked off the TripAdvisor World Heritage Campaign and has pledged to support the UNESCO World Heritage Centre by making a call to action for the 25 million monthly visitors on TripAdvisor to help protect the places around the world that matter the most.

By Joel Davis of The Daily Times Staff Originally published: November 04. 2009 3:01AM Last modified: November 03.

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Volunteer researchers have found microscopic worms, species of mushrooms and lichen, slender grass and tiger beetles never before documented in Yellowstone National Park.

ST. LOUIS - The shimmering Gateway Arch on the banks of the Mississippi River is St.

Contestants on The Biggest Loser , like a lot of people on reality shows, are given special treatment all the time in order to heighten the drama of the show.

Several controlled fires are planned this week for about 450 acres in scenic Cades Cove in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

A nearly $5 million allocation will allow for the purchase of 1,087 acres to expand the Monongahela National Forest and make other improvements in the forest.

The Blue Ridge Parkway will launch its 75th anniversary this month with a series of events in Cherokee, N.C., near the parkway's southern terminus.

Move over digital maps and interactive displays a ' make room for that green roof, recycled glass countertop, low-flow toilet and passive heating system.

The National Park Service has updated the formula used to estimate monthly and annual visitation to Gettysburg National Military Park.

Opponents of a plan to kill hundreds of deer at Valley Forge National Historical Park are asking members of Congress to halt the effort before the shooting starts.

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer objects to a ban on filing new mining claims on nearly 1 million acres of federal land in northern Arizona for two years while a permanent prohibition is under study.

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks has captured an albino black bear near the town of Olney in northwestern Montana and moved it to Glacier National Park.

Here is the latest South Dakota news from The Associated Press PIERRE, S.D. There's plenty of speculation that he might run for U.S. Senate but the grandson of former Sen.

The next meeting of the Georgia Chapter of the Trail of Tears Association will be held on Saturday, November 14, 2009, at 10:30 a.m. at the Marsh House in LaFayette.

It seems a perfect marriage of nature and commerce. As boats ferry oysters to the shore, pelicans swoop by and seals pop their heads out of the water.

A team from the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve is in South Dakota this week watching as a herd of wild bison is captured to bring back to the Kansas Flint Hills.

A car struck a woman Friday night on the Suitland Parkway at Stanton Road SE shortly after 7. The car stayed on scene.