Multimedia Presentations

A quite place on the Bluestone River

NPS photo/Dave Bieri

 

Video Links

For a more in depth look at Bluestone National Scenic River, as well as the two other national park sites in southern West Virginia (New River Gorge National Park and Preserve and Gauley River National Recreation Area), check out this film produced by West Virginia PBS.

 

Three Rivers: The Bluestone, Gauley, and New

A new 90-minute documentary from West Virginia Public Broadcasting explores the economic, environmental, cultural, historical and geographic impact of the largest federally protected system of rivers east of the Mississippi. Three Rivers: The Bluestone, Gauley and New examines the ongoing relationship between mankind and nature in this region.

Three Rivers: The Bluestone, Gauley, and New (1:26:56)

 

Resource Management Minutes

 

Paw Paw Seed Collection

October 2020

Early fall is pawpaw season! Pawpaw trees bear the largest edible fruit found in the United States and belong to the scientific family Annonaceae, a group of around 2400 species, of which pawpaw is the only species in the family not found in the tropics. This gives the pawpaw fruit its tropical taste, often considered a mix between a mango and a banana. Learn about how the parks' resource management division is collecting pawpaw seeds to aid in the restoration of native habitats within the three river parks of New River Gorge National Park and Preserve, Bluestone National Scenic River, and Gauley River National Recreation Area.

 

Duration:

1 minute, 36 seconds

Learn about how the parks' resource management division is collecting pawpaw seeds to aid in the restoration of native habitats within the three river parks of New River Gorge National Park and Preserve, Bluestone National Scenic River, and Gauley River National Recreation Area.