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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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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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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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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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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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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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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As the National Park Service runs the National Mall, it seems that it would fall to the park to total up the number of people who attended President...
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