National Park Service

National Parks Conservation Association Names 10 National Parks Most Threatened by New Coal-Fired Power Plants

YubaNet.com (Free subscription) | yesterday

The nation's leading voice for the national parks, the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA), today called on the Administration to halt its efforts to rollback clean air protections for national parks, citing 10 national parks at risk from pollution from new coal-fired power plants.

National Geographic Society; National Park Service: National Geographic Society and National Park Service Host Santa Monica Mountains BioBlitz May 30 and 31

Telecom News (Free subscription) | yesterday

LOS ANGELES, CA (MARKET WIRE) Los Angeles can lay claim to more than the Hollywood Bowl, Grauman's Chinese Theatre and the Venice Beach boardwalk. Sprawling through 160,000-plus acres of the city, and no less stimulating, is the world's largest urban national park — the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area — and Griffith Park. [...]

• National Geographic Society and National Park Service Host Santa Monica Mountains BioBlitz May 30 and 31 - The Earth Times Online Newspaper
• National Geographic Society and National Park Service Host Santa Monica Mountains BioBlitz May 30 and 31 - Red Orbit
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National Geographic Society; National Park Service: National Geographic Society and National Park Service Host Santa Monica Mountains BioBlitz May 30 and 31

Market Wire - Environment (Free subscription) | yesterday

LOS ANGELES, CA (MARKET WIRE) Los Angeles can lay claim to more than the Hollywood Bowl, Grauman's Chinese Theatre and the Venice Beach boardwalk. Sprawling through 160,000-plus acres of the city, and no less stimulating, is the world's largest urban national park -- the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area -- and Griffith Park. To better understand, appreciate...

Park Service buys sites on Gauley

Inbox Robot: Swiss Reinsurance News (Free subscription) | yesterday

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National Geographic Society and National Park Service Host Santa Monica Mountains BioBlitz May 30 and 31

Red Orbit (Free subscription) | yesterday

Los Angeles can lay claim to more than the Hollywood Bowl, Grauman's Chinese Theatre and the Venice Beach boardwalk.

Park Service defends actions after finding arsenic at Fort Reno

Examiner (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008

The National Park Service was fending off uncomfortable questions Wednesday after it waited 14 hours to tell the public that one of Northwest's most popular parks was potentially tainted with poison.

Unilever Employees Spearhead Volunteer Day on Statue of Liberty National Monument - Ellis Island

Business Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday

PermalinkTo save a permanent link to this news, right-click the dateline (Ctl-click on a Mac) to copy the link.Unilever Employees Spearhead Volunteer Day on Statue of Liberty National Monument – Ellis Island NEW YORK--()--Unilever (NYSE: UL, UN), one of the world's largest consumer products companies, proudly announced today that on Saturday, May 17th more than 500 registered Unilever volunteers...

National Geographic Society and National Park Service Host Santa Monica Mountains BioBlitz May 30 and 31

The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday

LOS ANGELES, CA -- 05/16/08 -- Los Angeles can lay claim to more than the Hollywood Bowl, Grauman's Chinese Theatre and the Venice Beach boardwalk. Sprawling through 160,000-plus acres of the city, and no less stimulating, is the world's largest urban national park -- the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area -- and Griffith Park. To better understand, appreciate...

OPTIMUS Awarded Five-Year National Park Service Blanket Purchase Agreement Valued up to $100 Million

Business Wire (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008

ROCKVILLE, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Department of Interior National Park Service (NPS) has awarded OPTIMUS Corporation, a NetStar-1 company, a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) to provide

Judge orders Kane County to remove road signs in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument

Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

Posted: 8:15 PM- Kane County's ongoing bid to claim ownership of roads in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and surrounding federal lands suffered a serious, and perhaps fatal, blow today.

Gettysburg Park rehab is dramatic

Star Tribune (Free subscription) | yesterday

| Gettysburg Park rehab is dramaticBy PHILIP KENNICOTT, Washington Post Last update: May 16, 2008 - 4:28 PM IF YOU GOGettysburg National Military Park is open daily, 6 a.m.-10 p.m. April 1-Oct. 31, and 6 a.m.-7 p.m. Nov. 1-March 31. The visitor center is open daily from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., until 6 p.m. in summer. Admission is free (). More from If you stand on the low rise known...

Yosemite National Park Rangers Honored With Valor Awards from the Department of the Interior

YubaNet.com (Free subscription) | yesterday

... who help endangered species, develop innovative programs, or maintain accurate records.Yosemite National Park Rangers John Dill, Daniel Gleason, David Horne, Gregory Lawler, Edward Visnovske, and Shawn Walters were honored for their work on a 2002 rescue. The team successfully rescued a climber who had been caught in a rock fall that swept over him, injuring his neck and shoulder...

Los Alamos: Parks Service Sparks Wild Fire

Gorilla Radio blog (Free subscription) | yesterday

... huge fire." Aeroplanes are dropping slurry onto the flames There is to be an inquiry into why the National Park Service started the fire, intending to clear brushwood from a Bandelier National Monument. "I love the National Park Service for starting this; they're a bunch of idiots," said Neil Stoddard, one resident forced to evacuate. "I think better...

Saving wolf cost park service $4,000

adn.com: Alaska (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008

FAIRBANKS - The National Park Service says it spent almost $4,000 chasing down a wolf in Denali National Park to remove a cable snare from its neck.Public affairs officer Kris Fister says the agency intervened because the wolf's injury was caused by a human.

Park service spends nearly $4,000 to rid wolf of snare

adn.com: Alaska (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008

FAIRBANKS -- The National Park Service spent almost $4,000 chasing down a wolf in Denali National Park to remove a cable snare from its neck.