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Fossil beds in Las Vegas could become next national monument

  • Tule Springs
  • May 1, 2012
Part 20 in a series: What’s the next national park?Half an hour from the neon strobe lights and jangling slot machines of Las Vegas, Nev.,...
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Cuyahoga Valley National Park staff worked cooperatively in FBI investigation

  • FBI arrest anarchists
  • May 1, 2012
It was business as usual in Cuyahoga Valley National Park for the last several months as FBI investigators led the operation to apprehend five men...
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Great Barrington hopes to create W.E.B. Du Bois National Historic Site

  • web du bois
  • April 29, 2012
Part 19 in a series: What's the next national park?The co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and...
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National Park Service plans nation’s first tribal national park

  • Oglala Sioux
  • April 27, 2012
Part 18 in a series: What’s the next national park?We have national parks that commemorate battles between Native Americans and the U.S....
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Fort Ord preserved as a National Monument

  • Fort Ord
  • April 20, 2012
Just in time for Earth Day, President Obama today signed a Proclamation to designate federal lands within the former Fort Ord as a National...
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The California Delta: One man’s passion could produce a national park

Part 17 in a series: What’s the next national park?If you live in California or in America’s southwestern states, you know that a...
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National Park Service fines tour guide for Bigfoot search without a permit

A Bigfoot hunt guide leading a tour in a national park this week got slapped with a fine—not for messing with Sasquatch, but for leading an...
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Quimby woods in limbo during Maine national park debate

  • Maine Woods
  • March 29, 2012
Part 16 in a series: What’s the next national park?Roxanne Quimby owns a lot of land, and she’s ready to give it away.The founder of...
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How America gets more national parks: Introduction to a series

What’s the next national park?With 397 parks already established in the 96 years since the National Park Service was founded, it’s hard...
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What’s the next national park? Part 14: The Manhattan Project

Is there a place for the atom bomb in the roster of national park sites?That’s the question a National Park Service (NPS) study team was...
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