California Condor Egg

2010-03-09T13:48:43Z

This photo provided by the National Park Service shows a nesting California condor on Friday, March 5, 2010, in a cranny near the High Peaks Trail in Pinnacles National Monument, Calif. Biologists at Pinnacles are celebrating the first condor egg laid by a mating pair in more than a cent...

Cherry Blossom Festival

2010-03-04T10:21:01Z

National Park Service Chief Horticulturalist Rob DeFeo announces the peak bloom dates for the 2010 National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, on Thursday, March 4, 2010. DeFeo announced that the cherry blossoms will be in bloom from March 31 through April 11, wit...

Park Service predicts DC cherry blossom bloom

2010-03-04T08:33:09Z

<div id="subtitle">National Park Service predicts DC's peak cherry blossom bloom will start April 3</div><div><p>The National Park Service is hinting at when spring will arrive in Washington.</p><p>National Park Service Chief Horticulturalist Rob DeFeo announced Thursday that the cherry blossoms will be in bloom from March 31 through April 11. He is predicting the peak bloom period will ...

National parks '09 visitation up but misses record

2010-02-24T10:18:29Z

<div id="subtitle">National parks 2009 visitor numbers up from 2008 despite economy, but misses 1987 record</div><div><p>Ten million more people visited national parks last year than in 2008, but the numbers fell short of the all-time record for park visitation from 1987.</p><p>More than 285 million people visited national parks and other units of the National Park Service during 2009, u...

Dinosaur Discovery

2010-02-23T13:46:40Z

This image provided by the National Park Service on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010 shows the right and left views of the complete skull of the newly-discovered dinosaur Abydosaurus mcintoshi. Paleontologists say this new species of dinosaur was found in Dinosaur National Monument, Utah hidden in slabs of sand...

Arts panel rejects labels for DC monuments

2010-02-22T08:35:38Z

<div id="subtitle">Federal arts panel rejects Park Service plan to label monuments in DC</div><div><p>The Washington Monument and other memorials in the nation's capital probably won't get labels for confused visitors after all.</p><p>The National Park Service is backing ...

Flags Fly At Half Staff In Washington DC In Memory Of John Murtha

2010-02-09T16:31:04Z

WASHINGTON - FEBRUARY 09: As snow begins to fall, National Park Service employees Frank Brown (L) and Matthew Newman lower the last flag around the Washington Monument that had been flying at half-staff February 9, 2010 in

Martin Luther King Memorialized In DC At Lincoln Memorial

2010-01-14T13:31:32Z

WASHINGTON - JANUARY 14: National Park Service park guard Eric Schreiner moves a wreath from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to the Martin Luther King Jr. new memorial site which is currently under construction January 14, ...

Park Service partly faults Yosemite for wildfire

2010-02-22T23:20:12Z

<div id="subtitle">National Park Service says Yosemite fire crews were overconfident they could manage wildfire</div><div><p>The National Park Service says Yosemite officials were overconfident in their ability to manage a controlled burn last summer that whipped into an explosive wildfire.&am...

Feds side with tribes in Cape Cod wind farm case

2010-02-23T01:30:02Z

<div id="subtitle">National Park Service says Nantucket Sound eligible for special protections</div><div><p>Federal officials on Monday agreed to a request by two Indian tribes for special protections for Nantucket Sound, a move that could delay construction of a proposed wind farm off

Van slides over embankment in Grand Canyon park

2010-02-23T08:08:49Z

<div><p>Authorities say a van slid over the edge of a Grand Canyon National Park embankment, but the vehicle's six passengers got out before emergency workers arrived and no life-threatening injuries were reported.</p><p>The National Park Service says emergency crews responding to acci...

Old Texas mission ranch buried in funding limbo

2010-02-23T11:44:49Z

<div id="subtitle">Ruins of historic mission ranch among few remains of original cowboy culture that shaped Texas</div><div><p>Ruins that archeologists call one of the last links to the original ranches and cowboys that shaped Texas have been kept behind a gate, literally buried, for more than two decades — awaiting the funding that would allow people to see them.</p><p>T...

Valley Forge sharpshooter deer hunt postponed

2010-02-23T12:02:21Z

<div id="subtitle">Feds halt plan to use sharpshooters to cull 1,000 deer devouring Valley Forge vegetation</div><div><p>The National Park Service has called off its plan to deploy silencer-equipped sharpshooters this winter to cull the nearly 1,300 deer overtaking Valley Forge.</p><p>With a lawsuit pending and facing the logistics of deplo...

Deer Valley Forge

2009-12-23T10:31:13Z

In this Dec. 2, 2009 photo, a deer is shown at Valley Forge National Park, in Valley Forge, Pa. The National Park Service has called off a planned deer hunt at Valley Forge National Historical Park this winter. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Vietnam Vets Hold Christmas Tree Ceremony At Memorial In DC

2009-12-21T11:46:09Z

WASHINGTON - DECEMBER 21: A thick blanket of snow sits on top of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial as U.S. Park Service volunteer Paul Stancliff decorates a Christmas tree near the apex of the memorial on the

Grand Canyon N.P. Gets Stimulus Dollars To Re-Build Trails

2009-12-18T16:30:56Z

GRAND CANYON, AZ - JUNE 10: (BEST OF YEAR PACKAGE) National Park Service trail crew members prepare to repel down the side of a cliff while repairing a trail on June 10, 2009 in the Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. Work began this week on a major federal stimulus funded project to repair ...

Groups criticize Park Service profit-sharing plan

2010-02-23T14:44:56Z

<div id="subtitle">Environmentalists critical of plan for national parks to share any profits from research</div><div><p>Five environmental groups are voicing concern about a soon-to-be-implemented National Park Service policy that would enable parks to share profits from research within their boundaries.</p><p>The plan would be impractical...

Winter season at Yellowstone opens Tuesday

2010-02-23T15:51:45Z

<div id="subtitle">Winter season at Yellowstone opens Tuesday for guided snowmobile and snowcoach trips</div><div><p>Yellowstone National Park's winter season begins this week.</p><p>The nation's oldest national park opens for commercially guided snowmobile and snowcoach trips on Tuesday, Dec. 15.</p><p>A...

Nat'l parks seek to share of profitable science

2010-02-23T22:59:08Z

<div id="subtitle">New policy to give National Park Service share of profits from bioprospecting in parks</div><div><p>A soon-to-be-implemented policy for scientists who are permitted to conduct research in national parks will give the National Park Service a share of any profits from their work.</p><p>The policy is expected to go into effe...

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