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Randi Minetor is the author of the Passport To Your National Parks® Companion Guides series, the first three of which are now available from FalconGuides. She is also the author of eight current and upcoming books in FalconGuides' National Park Pocket Guides series.

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Visit a national park for free on Veterans’ Day

Saturday, November 7th, 2009

As a gesture of honor to all of America’s veterans, all of the country’s national park sites are waiving admission fees on Veterans’...
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Appropriations for national parks pass quietly in Congress

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

Slipping in quietly beneath the health care reform hoopla on October 30, a final bipartisan vote in Congress passed...
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Want to attend the White House Christmas tree lighting? Enter the lottery

Monday, November 2nd, 2009 · 3 comments

Would you like to see President Barack Obama and his family light the White House Christmas tree for the first time? You can watch the ceremony on the...
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Senate subcommittee considers a 21st century Civilian Conservation Corps in our national parks

Sunday, November 1st, 2009 · 2 comments

Every fan of the national parks can name several projects undertaken in the 1930s by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), a working force created by...
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National Park Service launches 11 search and rescue missions a day, new study shows

Saturday, October 31st, 2009

When massive search operations in national parks make headlines, most people believe that such rescue missions are the anomaly rather than the norm....
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So now, people trying to see all the national parks are the bad guys

Friday, October 30th, 2009 · 1 comment

If we’ve made it a life goal to see all 392 units in the National Park Service system—or even just the 58 properties with “National...
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Port Chicago Naval Magazine becomes national park unit #392

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

With the stroke of a pen on Wednesday, October 28, President Barack Obama turned Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial into the 392nd unit of...
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National park in Delaware moving closer to reality

Don’t run for your Passport books just yet, but a senator and a congressman from Delaware introduced a bill on Tuesday, October 20, to create...
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Get out to the national parks this weekend!

Now that you’ve re-watched your DVR’d copies of Ken Burns’ documentary, The National Parks: America’s Best Idea,” are...
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Study finds Yosemite black bears partial to minivans

Minivan owners may think twice before parking overnight in Yosemite National Park, if the results of a study published in the October 2009 issue of...
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