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• Paramount Ranch National Park 2009

  
  The City Project Blog — Authority: 126
  See more about National Parks, the PBS documentary America’s Best Idea, and Transit to Trails.
  8 hours ago

• In Gettysburg, has monument money gone missing?

  
  Civil War Interactive Newswire — Authority: 148
  The president of the Gettysburg Battlefield Preservation Association is accusing staff at Gettysburg National Military Park of misappropriating funds given to the park for the repair of more than 140 Pennsylvania monuments.Kathi Schue said $77,580 appears to have gone “missing” from money secured by a state ...
  1 day ago

• In 1864, like today, many tables had an ‘empty chair’

  
  Civil War Interactive Newswire — Authority: 148
  For most families in the eastern and southern United States, Thanksgiving in 1864 was a holiday with mixed emotions. With boys and men gone off to the third year of war, many chairs at family dinners stayed empty. But what was Thanksgiving like for those in the field?A tour at Petersburg National Battlefield last ...
  1 day ago

• LIVE WEBCAST: DEDICATION DAY CEREMONY, NOVEMBER 19 10 a.m. Eastern Time

  
  Civil War Interactive Newswire — Authority: 148
  DATE:           THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19TIME:              10:00 A.M.LOCATION:   WWW.PALINCOLN.ORGWHAT:                On Thursday, November 19, the 2009 Dedication Day Ceremony will be live streamed on the Pennsylvania Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission webpage at ...
  6 days ago

• A fitting facility for Five Forks Battlefield

  
  Civil War Interactive Newswire — Authority: 148
  The Petersburg National Battlefield recently opened a major new addition that will significantly expand the ability to tell the story of one of the pivotal battles during the Civil War.Last month, the National Park Service unveiled a new $3 million visitor contact station at the Five Forks Battlefield. The ...
  6 days ago

• UK government plans energy sector overhaul

  
  Electric.co.uk News — Authority: 438
  Future plans to completely overhaul the UK’s energy sector have been officially announced by the government. The proposals include 10 new potential nuclear sites, a framework for developing clean coal technology and guidelines on new energy infrastructures. One-third of the country’s required power capacity by ...
  6 days ago

• Anacapa Island National Park

  
  The City Project Blog — Authority: 126
  See more about National Parks, the PBS documentary America’s Best Idea, and Transit to Trails.
  1 week ago

• PG School Aids in Domestic Counterinsurgency

  
  Information Dissemination — Authority: 135
  Fascinating article here from this mornings WaPost on an effort by local authorities in Salinas, CA to combat a growing gang-violence problem using the tenets of the proliferating cottage industry of counterinsurgency. Deep in the heart of this approach are faculty and students from the Naval Postgraduate School ...
  1 week ago

• (CSC) Computer Sciences Corporation’s Revenue Up – Earnings Per Share Exceeds

  
  Stock Blog Hub — Authority: 165
  Computer Sciences Corporation ( CSC ) reported second quarter 2010 EPS of $1.40, exceeding the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.35. Revenue The company reported second quarter revenue of $4.0 billion, up 4.7% from $4.2 billion reported in the year-ago quarter. The company witnessed new business bookings and ...
  1 week ago

• Dedication Day 2009

  
  Civil War Interactive Newswire — Authority: 148
  November 19, the anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, was formally designated as Dedication Day by a joint resolution of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives on August 7, 1946. Through the efforts of Congressman Todd R. Platts (PA-19) a 2009 resolution (HRes736) was introduced and passed by unanimous vote of ...
  1 week ago

• Interim Superintendent Appointed

  
  Civil War Interactive Newswire — Authority: 148
  National Park Service Northeast Regional Director Dennis R. Reidenbach has named Mel Poole as interim superintendent of Gettysburg National Military Park. Poole, who is currently superintendent of Catoctin Mountain Park in Thurmont, Maryland, will assume his duties on November 23, 2009. Reidenbach also named ...
  1 week ago

• Transit to Trails

  
  The City Project Blog — Authority: 126
  Transit to Trails takes inner city youth and their families and friends on fun mountain, beach, and hiking and biking trips. The project enriches their education about water, land, wildlife, and cultural history, and the importance of physical activity and healthy eating for life-long health.In April 2007, Secretary ...
  1 week ago

• BK’s National Park

  
  Going Coastal — Authority: 128
  Nationally, parks mean Old Faithful, Yosemite and delightful black bears hungry for picnic baskets. Here in Brooklyn it’s swings, a seesaw – maybe a ball field or two.Well, not exactly. While our borough certainly boasts a vast and varied network of top-notch green spots where you can go to shag a few pop-flies ...
  2 weeks ago

• Senator Burr Supporting National Park Land Grab Eliminating Hunting Access

  
  AmmoLand.com — Authority: 607
  Why Is Senator Burr Supporting National Park Land Grab Eliminating Hunting Access Grass Roots North Carolina for Firearms Education North Carolina - - (AmmoLand.com) - As we were alerted by members in the Blowing Rock area months ago, the Town of Blowing Rock plans to turn over town-owned land that local ...
  2 weeks ago

• More questions than answers from the governments coal policy

  
  Greenpeace UK blogs — Authority: 502
  With Kingsnorth on hold, whats the future for coal in the UK? National policy statements sound cool. They sound like they might actually sort stuff out. Instead of scrabbling around doing little bits of policy here and there, like some sort of policy tapas, a national policy statement means youre going for the ...
  2 weeks ago

• It’s coal, not nuclear, that is the important issue today

  
  Greenpeace UK blogs — Authority: 502
  With Kingsnorth on hold, what future for coal in the UK? National policy statements sound cool. They sound like they might actually sort stuff out. Instead of scrabbling around doing little bits of policy here and there, like some sort of policy tapas, a NPS means youre going for the policy hog roast - go on, have a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Soda Lake, Carrizo Plain National Monument

  
  The City Project Blog — Authority: 126
  The Carrizo Plain is the largest remaining tract of the San Joaquin Valley biogeographic province with only limited evidence of human alteration. Lying adjacent to the southwest edge of the San Joaquin Valley in eastern San Luis Obispo County, the 250,000 acre area is a diverse complex of habitats similar to those in ...
  2 weeks ago

• Park Service, Preservation Group At Odds Over Repairs

  
  Civil War Interactive Newswire — Authority: 148
  A battle is brewing at the Gettysburg Military Park over money donated to repair more than 100 monuments.The Gettysburg Battlefield Preservation Association raised over $1 million 10 years ago, which was enough to repair all 140 Pennsylvania monuments.The group said that half of the monuments are still missing ...
  2 weeks ago

• Olmsted Homestead National Historic Site

  
  The City Project Blog — Authority: 126
  See more about National Parks, the PBS documentary America’s Best Idea, and Transit to Trails.
  2 weeks ago

• Crunching battlefield numbers

  
  Civil War Interactive Newswire — Authority: 148
  New calculations indicate about 450,000 fewer people than originally estimated actually visited the Gettysburg Battlefield in 2008 — which means Gettysburg National Military Park overestimated the figure by about 42 percent.By plugging some different numbers into its National Park Service-approved formula, the park ...
  3 weeks ago

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