Recently added articles from National Parks:
Pivotal moments.(PRESIDENT'S OUTLOOK)(The National Parks: America's Best Idea)
Mar 22, 2009; ... How many of us remember our first experience in a national park? Perhaps it was with our parents during a summer vacation to Sequoia National Park, or a class trip to Gettysburg National Military Park to learn about the Civil War. Maybe it was an excursion with our grandparents, who wanted ...
Moving pictures.(EDITOR'S NOTE)(Editorial)
Mar 22, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] I'm a documentary nut. In the last year, I've seen films about the font Helvetica, the bizarre world of competitive video-gamers, a heavy-metal rock band in therapy, and, of course, environmental pieces like Planet Earth and Who Killed the Electric Car? As ...
Hard work in hard times.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
Mar 22, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Thomas Kiernan's "Another New Deal?" [President's Outlook, Winter 2009] brought back memories of my six months in the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) during the Great Depression in the 1930s. We cleared underbrush and thinned tree growth in Chippewa ...
The exception to the rule.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
Mar 22, 2009; ... I am responding to a letter about off-road vehicles (ORVs) in the Winter 2009 issue. For more than 35 years, my family has visited Cape Hatteras National Seashore in North Carolina, and we have long been proponents of restricted ORV use, especially during nesting season. But we do not ...
Leave no trace.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
Mar 22, 2009; ... As the daughter of a retired Park Service ranger, I was heartened to know that the National Park Service's motto, "take nothing but pictures; leave nothing but footprints"--is a reality in Denali National Park ["Rescue Under a Midnight Sun," Winter 2009]. I grew up in parks and monuments ...
Call of the wildflowers.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
Mar 22, 2009; ... My husband and I had been talking about a return visit to Death Valley this spring, but had done nothing about it ... until, that is, we got the latest issue of National Parks magazine. The article by Jeff Rennicke ["And Heaven in a Wild Flower," Winter 2009] on ...
We've got issues.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
Mar 22, 2009; ... I have started to read each issue of National Parks cover to cover, and I must say I was particularly impressed with two articles in the Winter 2009 magazine--"Solar Rush" and "Just Add Water." I was impressed not only with the thorough explanation of the issues, but also with the ...
Friends in high places.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Winter 2009 was another well-orchestrated issue, and "Wolves, Moose, Researchers, and Me" strummed a special chord. Twenty-plus years ago, a friend pulled me into the world of Isle Royale wolves and Roll Peterson. From there, I joined an Earthwatch expedition in tiny Ovindoli, Italy, high ...
Corrections.(LETTERS)(Correction notice)
Mar 22, 2009 ... CORRECTIONS: Gray Davis was governor of California in 2002, not Arnold Schwarzenegger, as noted in "Solar Rush," Winter 2009. The locoweed flowers pictured on page 36 ...
After midnight: a quick took at the current status of President Bush's midnight regulations.(Trail Mix)(George W. Bush)
Mar 22, 2009; ... As National Parks' Winter issue went to press, the Bush Administration was pushing through several last-minute proposals that would have posed serious harm to national parks and adjacent lands. An update on the key proposals: In December, the Environmental Protection Agency ...
Bristol Bay, Alaska, is one of our nation's most abundant sources of sockeye salmon, but two mining companies have set their sites on $300 billion worth of gold, copper, and molybdenum in the ground not far from its source.(EYE-OPENER)(Brief article)
Mar 22, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] BRISTOL BAY, ALASKA, is one of our nation's most abundant sources of sockeye salmon, but two mining companies have set their sites on $300 billion worth of gold, copper, and molybdenum in the ground not far from its source. History and science suggest a ...
A river restored: forty years after the Cuyahoga River fires.(Trail Mix)(Brief article)
Mar 22, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] If you've ever wondered what an ecosystem looks like when it hits rock-bottom, picture Ohio's Cuyahoga River during the industrial revolution. For more than a century, cities and factories along the river's banks dumped waste directly into the water. All ...
Echoes.(Trail Mix)(Brief article)
Mar 22, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] It's like burning Rembrandts to heat the castle. I'm not sure we're that desperate. DAVID NIMKIN, director of NPCA's Southwest regional office, quoted by the Los Angeles Times, in response to a Bureau of Land Management proposal to auction more ...
49.6.(Trail Mix)(Brief article)
Mar 22, 2009 ... 49.6 MILLIONS OF DOLLARS that Fredericksburg Spotsylvania National Military Park generates each year for local economies in eastern Virginia. In 2007, the 8,400-acre park created 594 jobs--the average company in the area supports roughly half that number. The top ...
Sand traps: there are thousands of abandoned mines in California's desert parks, and balancing visitor safety with conservation poses more challenges than you might expect.(Trail Mix)
Mar 22, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When Bob Bryson saw two large, snowy-white barn owls erupt from the entrance of an old mine shaft in Mojave National Preserve last winter, he was instantly reminded why he treasures his position as the park's chief of natural resource management. But the ...
Beetle battle: pine beetles are changing the landscape of Rocky Mountain National Park.(Trail Mix)
Mar 22, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Visitors to Rocky Mountain National Park are seeing red. The pine trees that once gave these peaks a velvety green cloak are increasingly taking on a strange, rust-red color as they succumb to an unprecedented onslaught of bark beetles. For most visitors, ...
20,000.(Trail Mix)(land donation)(Brief article)
Mar 22, 2009 ... 20,000 ACRES OF LAND being donated to California's desert parks, thanks to the Mojave Desert Land Trust's recent purchases of privately-owned homesteads, ranches, and mines within Death Valley, Joshua Tree, and Mojave National Preserve. Before handing the ...
National Parks: the film: Ken Burns focuses his tens on America's best idea.(Q&A)(Interview)
Mar 22, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Filmmaker Ken Burns made a name for himself with "The Civil War," an 11-hour documentary that originally aired on PBS in 1990, capturing the attention of 40 million viewers. Since then, he's devoted his life to documenting the American experience, turning ...
Setting the stage: after an 18-month renovation, Ford's Theatre is reincarnated.(Trail Mix)
Mar 22, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] John T. Ford arrived in Washington, D.C., from nearby Baltimore, Maryland, in 1861, with his hopes set on running a successful playhouse in the nation's capital. His search for the perfect locale ended at an abandoned Baptist church near the corner of 10th ...
Building a mystery: what do we really know about Ocmulgee's mounds?(PARK MYSTERIES)
Mar 22, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] If there's one thing humans are good at, it's building stuff. Our cities boast towering office buildings, sprawling museums, and architecturally stunning hotels. Yet we rarely give thought to what these structures say about our culture. What subtle ...