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Fort Smith National Historic Site
Fort Smith Goes to the Movies: Hang 'Em High (Site Bulletin)
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Hang’em High is typical of many films of the western genre in that it took historical truth and exaggerated it to create a captivating movie. Learn more in this site bulletin.
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Thanks to park biologists and partners, visitors can again spot western pond turtles in popular parts of Golden Gate National Recreation Area and the Presidio of San Francisco where they had vanished. But the turtles still need help growing their numbers. Cue an unlikely conservation hero: Canis lupus familiaris, the domestic dog! This May and June, specially trained dogs are helping biologists find and protect vulnerable turtle nests in the parks.
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The mission community included housing for the mission residents and the priest, workshops, class rooms, a cemetery, a mortuary chapel, an irrigation system, gardens, orchards, and grazing lands. In fact, a mission did not always have a church. Tumacácori was established as a mission in 1691, but it did not have a dedicated church building until 1756, over sixty years later.
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Large swaths of bright, olive-green clumps sit atop the rocks between swirling pools in the mid tidal zone. Silvetia compressa, or rockweed as it is more commonly referred, is a dark, leathery seaweed with long, branched fronds. Though they don’t look like much at first glance, these marine plants are what a research team has come to Santa Cruz Island to find.
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NPS ABPP’s Battlefield Interpretation Grants empower preservation partners nationwide to modernize and enhance battlefield interpretation – to inspire wonder, understanding, and empathy at the places that witnessed some of our nation’s most challenging events.
National Center for Preservation Technology and Training
Preservation Matters: Remote Sensing Magnetic Susceptibility
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Magnetic susceptibility is an electromagnetic (EM) technique which assesses the ability of soils and the features within it to be temporarily magnetized in the presence of a magnetic field. This effect is called induced magnetism. Researchers interpret these anomalies as target areas for further investigation, or for preservation on culturally sensitive sites.
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NPS ABPP’s Battlefield Interpretation Grants empower preservation partners nationwide to modernize and enhance battlefield interpretation – to inspire wonder, understanding, and empathy at the places that witnessed some of our nation’s most challenging events.
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NPS ABPP’s Battlefield Interpretation Grants empower preservation partners nationwide to modernize and enhance battlefield interpretation – to inspire wonder, understanding and empathy at the places that witnessed some of our nation’s most challenging events.
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Meet GIS Intern Shea Nolan, get a peek at post-field season indoor botany, and test your invasive species ID skills in this fall-winter issue. Also catch invasive species profiles of two grassland troublemakers, Bromus tectorum and Rytidosperma penicillatum, and a native species profile on the charming redwood forest floor groundcover Oxalis oregana.
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The National Natural Landmarks (NNL) Program includes dozens of important fossil sites throughout the United States, a handful are recognized for significant dinosaur fossils.
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The Landmark for Peace is a memorial sculpture in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Park in Indianapolis, Indiana. It commemorates the contributions of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Senator Robert F. Kennedy, both of whom were assassinated months apart in 1968.
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Keeping invasive plants at bay is a powerful way to help native plants and wildlife flourish. But that’s no easy task when you aren’t quite sure where they are; first, you have to find them. The One Tam Conservation Management Team recently set out to do just that to help land managers keep one particular species of concern off of upper Mount Tamalpais: thoroughwort (Ageratina adenophora).
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Orange you excited for autumn? Get ahead of the carve by creating a gourd-geous park pumpkin this fall season and give ‘em pumpkin to talk about. Find more templates, including printer-friendly options to create your park pumpkin art.
Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument
Series: Prehistoric Life of Tule Springs
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Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument preserves thousands of Pleistocene (Ice Age) fossils that help tell the story of an ever-changing ecosystem. These fossils were preserved within expanding and contracting wetlands between 100,000-12,500 years ago. Many of the Pleistocene animals of Tule Springs are still alive today, including the coyote (Canis latrans), jackrabbit (Lepus sp.), and aquatic snails. Some animals went extinct, disappearing from North America entirely.
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Horses first evolved in North America during the Eocene epoch and adapted to the changing climate over tens of millions of years. Equus scotti was one of the last of the native North American horses and had a wide distribution over the continent, before it went extinct 10,000 years ago.
Point Reyes National Seashore
Woodward Fire Kickstarts Monitoring of the Point Reyes Mountain Beaver
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The 2020 Woodward fire has created a unique opportunity for biologists to investigate an elusive and mysterious mammal population: Point Reyes mountain beavers (Aplodontia rufa phaea). In some areas, fire burned off the top layer of soil, exposing complex networks of tunnels two or three inches under the ground. Biologists are applying this 'x-ray' vision of mountain beaver habitat to locate active burrows in unburned areas.
Boston National Historical Park
The Wardroom
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Though a small ship, a hierarchy still existed aboard USS Cassin Young
National Park of American Samoa
Scientists Discover One of the World’s Largest Corals Near Ta'u Island, American Samoa
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The National Park of American Samoa, in collaboration with local partners, recently discovered one of the largest known corals in the world at the island of Ta’u in park waters. This Porites coral was 22.4 X 8 meters, with a circumference of 69 meters. Scientists estimate the coral is between 420 and 652 years old. The team also documented 84 other Porites colonies measuring over 10 meters.
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Klamath Network botanist, Sean Smith, has been monitoring whitebark pine conditions in two network parks since 2012. Jenell Jackson, the graduate student he worked with early on, recently coauthored a paper with Smith and other scientists in the journal Forests sharing what they’ve learned about whitebark pine. Their study aims to support park managers grappling with how best to protect this increasingly threatened tree in the southern Cascades.
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Dozens of deep-sea sponges thrive off the California coast, but many are still unknown to science. Scientists recently described a new species of deep-sea sponge in Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary, located just northwest of Point Reyes National Seashore. The white ruffled sponge is named Farrea cordelli for its discovery in the 1,286 square mile sanctuary.