Recently added articles from Cobblestone:
Editor's note.(National Park Service)(Brief article)(Column)
Sep 01, 2009; ... Do you like hitting the beach? The National Park Service (NPS) has seashores, lakeshores, and rivers you can explore. Do memorials and monuments move you? There are more than 100 of these in the NPS. Is military history more your thing? Check out the NPSs 24 battlefield sites. Fascinated ...
For the public to enjoy.
Sep 01, 2009; ... Geysers shooting water into the air, bubbling hot mud springs, and herds of bison ... what do these things make you think of? If you said Yellowstone National Park, you'd be rights. Yellowstone is the nation's oldest and most familiar national park. People come from all over the world to ...
Nature's champion.(Theodore Roosevelt)
Sep 01, 2009; ... "We have fallen heirs to the most glorious heritage a people ever received, and each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune." --Theodore Roosevelt [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Nature and animals fascinated Theodore ...
Remembering TR.
Sep 01, 2009 ... The National Park Service currently maintains five sites dedicated to Theodore Roosevelt. Both his childhood home, the Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site, in New York City, and the home he lived in from 1886 to 1919, Sagamore Hill National Historic Site in Oyster Bay, New ...
Mountain man.(John Muir)
Sep 01, 2009; ... "Nature has always something rare to show us." --John Muir What's the quickest way out of town?" John Muir asked. In 1868, San Francisco, California, seemed much too crowded to the 30-year-old naturalist. He headed east, passing fields and orchards. Ahead of him ...