Stewardship Online Activities

• Leave No Trace Resources

• Sounds Along the Canal

• C&O Canal Preservation Challenge!

 

 

NPS Infographic / Matt Turner

Leave No Trace Online Resources

Learning how to be an Earth ambassador and steward is super fun with Leave No Trace Online Resources. Watch the 7 Principles Rap video, the Skills Video Library, or play with PEAK online games. Hone your outdoor skills and learn green habits!

 

Scenic view of the Potomac River.

NPS Photo

Sounds Along the Canal

The next time you visit the towpath, close your eyes, and pay attention to what you hear. Along the 184.5 miles of the C&O Canal, you will hear a diversity of sounds! Learn about what a soundscape is, why sound preservation is important to National Parks, and listen to cool sounds recorded along the C&O Canal on the Sounds Along the Canal resource page.

 

Preserving the past and present; Old photo of the Conococheague Aqueduct compared to a new photo.

NPS Photo / Tim Ware

C&O Canal Preservation Challenge

Preservation helps park researchers understand how humans lived throughout the past 13,000 years along the Potomac River. Take a look at historic places preserved along the C&O Canal and learn about the people that care for these places for generations to come. Showcase your creativity with the Preservation Challenge!

 

Students viewing a museum exhibit.

NPS Photo

NPS Museum Centennial

Stagecoaches that carried the first visitors into Yellowstone National Park. Thomas Edison's original recordings. A nearly 40,000 year old fossilized walrus skull. The spoken reminiscences of the Tuskegee Airmen. Handcrafted pottery of the Acoma Pueblo people. National park museums preserve the treasures of our Nation. Throughout the centennial celebration we celebrate the depth and richness of the national park collections. Come back and see what's new!

• Virtual Exhibits for All Parks
• Ask the Conservator
• Treasures of the Nation

 

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) workers making cacti for Zion diorama, Western Museum Laboratory (WML) on Fulton Street, Berkeley, California.

NPS Photo / Zion National Park, Museum Catalog Number ZION 10362

A New Lease on Life: Museum Conservation in the NPS

What do a plaster sculpture of an African-American Civil War soldier, a letter from a young Abraham Lincoln, archeological textile fragments and one of Lady Bird Johnson's dresses have in common? They are all objects in NPS collections that have received conservation treatment to make sure they remain safe as they are worked on, put on exhibit, or placed in storage. View these and many other objects preserved in parks and repositories throughout the NPS system online now!

• More NPS Conservation
• Museum Management Program
• Getting help with your heirlooms