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Grand Canyon National Park
Yavapai Geology Museum
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Open daily: 8 am - 7 pm. Yavapai Geology Museum offers one of the best vantage points for an overview of Grand Canyon geology. The building is right on the very edge of the canyon rim at Yavapai Point, The Museum Features: a bookstore and museum shop, large picture windows for viewing the canyon, and a variety of exhibits about the geology of Grand Canyon. Restrooms are in a separate building adjacent to the parking lot. The shuttle bus stop is also on the parking lot.
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
Wayside: What Does Sleeping Bear Dunes Mean to You?
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- Type: Article
Researchers undertook a major effort to document plant communities in Death Valley National Park, producing its most detailed vegetation map to date. This map enhances understanding of the landscape and aids conservation efforts.
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The Accokeek Creek site was excavated in the 1930’s by Alice and Henry Ferguson who purchased land for their home in present-day Piscataway Park in the 1920’s. After excavating tens of thousands of artifacts, the Ferguson’s came to believe that they had rediscovered the site of “Moyaone,” the principal town of the Piscataway chiefdom visited by Captain John Smith in 1608.
Longfellow House Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site
Cuba Vassall
- Type: Person
Cuba Vassall was the matriarch of a family that included abolitionists and community builders. As she navigated slavery and freedom in Massachusetts, Cuba advocated for her own and her family’s interests. In comparison with many formerly enslaved women of her era, Cuba Vassall’s life is relatively well documented.
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Rivers, such as the Colorado and Green River, are vital, but limited, resources in the semiarid and arid intermountain west. The Upper Colorado River Basin is the principal water supply of the western United States and supports habitat for a variety of flora and fauna. For nearly a century, managers have been striving to balance water use needs and ecosystem health. Learn how dams and managed flow variability have affected riparian corridors in Canyonlands National Park.
Indiana Dunes National Park
Henry Blake Fuller
- Type: Person
Henry Blake Fuller was a key figure in the Chicago Literary Renaissance, renowned for pioneering social realism in American literature. He is noted for being one of the first American novelists to explore homosexual themes. Fuller had a complicated love-hate relationship with Chicago. He frequently found solace at Indiana Dunes, which served as a retreat from urban life and a source for inspiration.
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
Georg & Flora Schmidt Farm
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Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
Philip A. Hart Visitor Center
- Type: Place
The Philip A. Hart Visitor Center houses brochures, books, park passes, and all the sound advice you'll need to plan your visit. The visitor center has displays of Sleeping Bear Dune's natural history, fauna and flora, geology, history, and stories about people of the park.
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AUGUST 2022 – Mount Rainier’s subalpine meadows are a glimmering kaleidoscope of flora, from the showy to the understated. This strikingly beautiful diversity is also a key to surviving the harsh reality of life in the narrow belt above where the trees end and below where the glaciers begin. To understand the impact of climate change on these interconnected communities, researchers carry out long-term monitoring on subalpine vegetation.
Casa Grande Ruins National Monument
Climate and Groundwater Monitoring at Casa Grande Ruins National Monument
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At Casa Grande Ruins National Monument, the Sonoran Desert Network monitors climate and groundwater. Understanding changes in these closely linked factors helps managers to make informed decisions affecting park flora and fauna, as well as key cultural resources. Learn about our findings for 2018 in this desert park.
Natchez Trace Parkway
Donivan Slough, Milepost 283.3
- Type: Place
Donivan Slough, a cultural and nature trail invites walkers on an easy hike to learn about historic agricultural practices and the natural habitat of the area.
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Big Bend National Park preserves an important fossil record spanning the Cretaceous / Paleogene boundary. Both marine and terrestrial strata preserve a diversity of vertebrates, invertebrates, plants and trace fossils. A recent inventory of NPS fossil plants from across the national parks includes the important fossil record of flora from Big Bend National Park.
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The Elliott Coues House was the Washington D.C. residence of the prominent American ornithologist Elliott C. Coues from 1887 to his death in 1899. While residing at the home, Elliott Coues studied bird species from across the nation and wrote some of the most important texts in North American ornithology.
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
Pine Plantation - Stop #12
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To survive in the dunes is no easy task. Flora and fauna deal with strong sunlight, poor soils, and constant winds. The wind action alone can dry out plants, expose root systems, or even completely bury vegetation, including trees.The cottonwood is the only common tree of the dunes and is well adapted to the dune environment.
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
Dune Ecology Basswood Tree - Stop #6
- Type: Place
To survive in the dunes is no easy task. Flora and fauna deal with strong sunlight, poor soils, and constant winds. The wind action alone can dry out plants, expose root systems, or even completely bury vegetation, including trees.The cottonwood is the only common tree of the dunes and is well adapted to the dune environment.
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During 2024 scouting for a large eastern grassland restoration project funded by IRA and BIL, several old growth remnant grasslands were identified in National Capital and Northeast Region parks that were previously unknown. These remnants preserve the genetic integrity of the original grassland flora of the eastern US and are true unexpected treasures that in some cases, were hidden in plain sight.
Indiana Dunes National Park
Jens Jensen
- Type: Person
Danish immigrant who settled in Chicago and revolutionized landscape architecture with his "Prairie Style" designs and use of native plants. He was a major influence on the conservation of native landscapes around the Midwest though his work with various organizations.
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This a series of lesson plans about the WWII home front, focused on Pensacola and Escambia County, Florida, as an American World War II Heritage City. The lessons contain photographs, readings, and primary sources, with optional extension activities. The lessons highlight specific contributions, such as USOs, a Vocational School for women, and aviation. The lessons also connect to larger themes and understandings of the US home front during wartime.
Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site
Dr. Edward Lewis Hempstead
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Dr. Edward Lewis Hempstead was a prominent resident at and may have served as head clerk at Bent’s Old Fort, in 1846-47.