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• 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 ...
  14 hours ago

• Senator Burr Supporting National Park Land Grab Eliminating Hunting Access

  
  AmmoLand.com — Authority: 627
  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 ...
  15 hours ago

• More questions than answers from the governments coal policy

  
  Greenpeace UK blogs — Authority: 472
  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 ...
  1 day ago

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

  
  Greenpeace UK blogs — Authority: 472
  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 ...
  1 day ago

• Soda Lake, Carrizo Plain National Monument

  
  The City Project Blog — Authority: 422
  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 ...
  4 days ago

• Park Service, Preservation Group At Odds Over Repairs

  
  Civil War Interactive Newswire — Authority: 147
  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 ...
  4 days ago

• Olmsted Homestead National Historic Site

  
  The City Project Blog — Authority: 422
  See more about National Parks, the PBS documentary America’s Best Idea, and Transit to Trails.
  5 days ago

• Crunching battlefield numbers

  
  Civil War Interactive Newswire — Authority: 147
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Gunpowder expertise equips battlefield chief to blast off

  
  Civil War Interactive Newswire — Authority: 147
  As a little girl, Cathy Beeler loved playing with cap guns.“I even got busted by my mom for sneaking one into a little pink purse and taking it to church when I was about 4 years old,” Beeler said. “My father condoned it all until I was about 9 or 10, when he threw them [...]
  1 week ago

• Questions Remain over Gettysburg Superintendent

  
  Civil War Interactive Newswire — Authority: 147
  Gettysburg is an important historical midstate destination – but there’s a new skirmish being waged after the battlefield’s superintendent was reassigned for viewing porn on a work computer. The fight centers on how much government agencies have to tell you about how they’re spending your money.Those who love ...
  1 week ago

• Recreation Fees Waived on Veterans Day, November 11

  
  Pacific Northwest Backroad Adventures — Authority: 429
  Released: 28 October 2009Contact: Tom Knappenberger, 503.808.2241, Jocelyn Biro, 503.808.2411Portland, OR – The public may visit federal recreation sites for free on Veterans Day, Wednesday, November 11, 2009The fee-free day honors U.S. veterans, members of the U.S. armed forces and their families.The administrative ...
  1 week ago

• Common Ground

  
  Preservation in Pink — Authority: 122
  If you haven’t seen the National Park Service’s quarterly magazine, Common Ground , you ought to check it out. You can sign up for a free subscription or download the issues for free. (Currently Spring 2009 is on the website, but Fall 2009 has arrrived in the mail.) While I’m in favor of saving trees, ...
  1 week ago

• 146th Anniversary of the Battles for Chattanooga

  
  Civil War Interactive Newswire — Authority: 147
  Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park invites the public to attend special programs commemorating the anniversary of the Battles for Chattanooga the weekend of Saturday, November 21 and Sunday, November 22, 2009.Battlefield staff and volunteers will offer a variety of educational programs; walks, talks, ...
  1 week ago

• Park hopes to name the interim super this week

  
  Civil War Interactive Newswire — Authority: 147
  The National Park Service hopes to name an “interim superintendent” at Gettysburg National Military Park sometime this week, and officials are indicating that it won’t be Acting Supt. Brion FitzGerald.NPS Director of Communications David Barna explained that the interim battlefield boss will probably be a park ...
  1 week ago

• Latschar was suspended before demotion

  
  Civil War Interactive Newswire — Authority: 147
  Including the discovery of “very dated but inappropriate” images on John Latschar’s computer hard drive among the findings of an Inspector General’s investigation would have “significantly delayed” the release of the agency’s report to the public, a Department of the Interior official has said in a ...
  1 week ago

• New Tradition for National Tree Lighting Tickets

  
  We Love DC — Authority: 619
  ‘National Christmas Tree’ courtesy of ‘Murmurmel’ Getting ready to stand in line for tickets for the National Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony next week? Don’t bother. The National Park Service is changing the process, much like they did for the White House Easter Egg Roll, to “open the ticketing ...
  1 week ago

• Improper computer use by park official not germane to probe, Interior IG says

  
  Civil War Interactive Newswire — Authority: 147
  A public report from a year-long investigation of the superintendent of Gettyburg National Military Park omitted that he viewed sexually-explicit images on his government computer because the information would have delayed the report’s release and eclipsed its other findings, the Interior Department’s inspector ...
  2 weeks ago

• Volunteers get a shot at making park ‘booms’

  
  Civil War Interactive Newswire — Authority: 147
  Want to fire the 12-pounder “Napoleon” cannon at the Vicksburg National Military Park?Park rangers are calling for volunteers who’d like to spend time on weekends portraying Civil War soldiers. The job entails learning to fire the famous big brass cannon as well as muskets and rifles, dressing in period uniforms ...
  2 weeks ago

• Yosemite Accounts for 25% of Annual Search and Rescue Costs

  
  YosemiteBlog.com — Authority: 129
  A NPS helo brings in a load of SAR gear before beginning a “rope down”. Photo by Brian Zambrano . A report by two researchers in the field of wilderness medice have come to some interesting conclusions. Yosemite seems to account for 1/4 of Annual NPS Search and Rescue costs at nearly $1.2 million in 2005. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Latschar Headed to Maryland

  
  Civil War Interactive Newswire — Authority: 147
  Today is probably John Latschar’s final day working for the National Park Service in Gettysburg.On Monday, Latschar said, he will report to the Historic Preservation Training Center in Frederick, Md., as the new special assistant to the Park Service’s associate director for cultural resources.The 15-year steward ...
  2 weeks ago

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