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Return of the Coho! 2024-2025 Spawner Surveys Exceed Expectations
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As the San Francisco Bay Area Network coho and steelhead monitoring crew wraps up the 2024-2025 spawner season, we are looking back at one of the busiest winters since the beginning of this monitoring program! We observed increased coho spawning in all three creeks we monitor—Olema, Pine Gulch, and Redwood Creeks. Olema took the cake with the strongest cohort of all.

Grand Teton National Park

Jenny Lake Plaza
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Dive deeper into the history of Grand Teton National Park. Interpretive signs introduce topics like the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, grizzly bear research, geologic forces and features, glaciers, and the Hayden Survey. A large bronze tactile relief map will help orient you in relation to where you are in the park. Different peaks, canyons, lakes, falls, and other park features are labeled throughout the map.

Greenwich Village Historic District
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Greenwich Village Historic District’s reputation for dynamism can be attributed to its history of emerging artists and writers as well as the political unrest and activism of its inhabitants. With the rise of the counterculture movement during the 1960s, Greenwich Village’s Washington Square Park became a hub for writers and musicians. In 1969, LGB residents of Greenwich Village pushed back against police harassment at the Stonewall Inn.

Point Reyes National Seashore

Researchers Complete First Season of Point Reyes Mountain Beaver Habitat Surveys
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The Point Reyes mountain beaver—a primitive rodent that isn’t a beaver—is a sort of mythical creature at Point Reyes National Seashore. Almost no one has seen one in-person with their own eyes. Not even National Park Service Wildlife Biologists Taylor Ellis and Matt Lau, who just completed their first season of surveys as a part of a 2-year mountain beaver habitat modeling project in collaboration with UC Berkeley. Still, the survey season was a great success.

Fort Des Moines: A Series of Firsts in Wartime Service
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Fort Des Moines is a military installation in Des Moines, Iowa. During World War I, the fort served as the first and only training site for African American officers. During World War II, Fort Des Moines was the first training site for the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) and the Women’s Army Corps (WAC), and the only training site for WAC and WAAC officers.

The White House and President's Park

Zero Milestone
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This four-foot-high shaft of pink granite stands on the north and south meridian of the District of Columbia. It is symbolically the official starting point for measurement of highway distances from Washington, DC. On July 7, 1919, the first transcontinental military motor convoy, destined for San Francisco, California, started from this spot.

The Search for Scat— Surveying Appalachian Cottontail in Fort Necessity National Battlefield
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Fort Necessity National Battlefield park staff aimed to find out if Appalachian cottontail inhabited the park, so they collaborated with the Inventory and Monitoring Division to survey for their scat.

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: Loon Lake's Glacial Past
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Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

Wayside: Where is the Sleeping Bear and Welcome to Sleeping Bear Dunes
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Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park

Employee Surveys Give Clues to Reducing Tick-Borne Disease
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Two studies show the value of standardized procedures, in-person training, and site-specific information.

Grand Canyon National Park

Park Store at the Visitor Center - Grand Canyon Conservancy
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Hours of Operation —Open 8 am to 7 pm daily. Located on the south side of Grand Canyon Visitor Center Plaza, adjacent to parking lot 4. This large store features books, maps, apparel, souvenirs, and gifts to help you plan, or share your trip to Grand Canyon with friends and family back home. A large variety of publications provide in-depth information about the canyon's geology —as well as natural and cultural history.

Grand Canyon National Park

Yavapai Geology Museum Bus Stop - Kaibab Rim (Orange) Route
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Located on the northeast end of the parking lot below Yavapai Geology Museum, this shuttle stop is for passengers arriving from, or returning to the Visitor Center. The small restroom building is alongside this parking lot. The level footpath behind the shuttle stop goes to the outdoor amphitheater on the rim. Follow the path up the hill to Yavapai Geology Museum and Yavapai Point. The paved Canyon Rim Trail continues both east and west from here. Visit the link for schedule

Grand Canyon National Park

Mather Point Bus Stop - Kaibab Rim (Orange) Route
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From the Visitor Center shuttle bus terminal, Mather Point is the first stop on the Westbound Kaibab/Rim (Orange) Route. From here the bus travels to Yavapai Geology Museum, then returns directly to the Visitor Center. From this bus stop, a very short walk to the east will take you to a wide open vista of Grand Canyon. However, the wheelchair accessible, Mather Point overlook is a short walk further east (to the right when facing the canyon). Visit link for current schedule.

Grand Canyon National Park

Grand Canyon Visitor Center Shuttle Bus Terminal
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This terminal is the main hub for the park's free shuttle buses. During winter, the Village (Blue) Route shuttle connects the Visitor Center Plaza with lodges, campgrounds, the Backcountry Information Center, and Market Plaza (general store, deli, and U.S. Post Office). The Kaibab Rim (Orange) Route eastbound to South Kaibab Trailhead, or westbound to Yavapai Geology Museum. During summer only, the Tusayan (Purple) Route - transports visitors to the gateway town of Tusayan.

Cinema Follies, DC
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Between 1975 and 1977, the building was occupied by the Cinema Follies, an adult film theater that catered to gay men. The Cinema Follies was frequently targeted by the Metropolitan Police Department during this short period. This building was recorded by the Historic American Buildings Survey.

Phase One, Washington, DC
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Phase One, a women’s bar, opened here in 1970. The bar was one of the few women-centric establishments within the District’s gay and lesbian nightlife scene. When it closed in January 2016, Phase One had earned the distinction of being one of the oldest continuously-operating women’s bars in the United States. Phase One was surveyed by the Historic American Buildings Survey.

Nina Otero-Warren
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In 1921, Otero-Warren ran for federal office, campaigning to be the Republican Party nominee for New Mexico to the US House of Representatives. She won the nomination, but lost the election by less than nine percent. She remained politically and socially active, and served as the Chairman of New Mexico’s Board of Health; an executive board member of the American Red Cross; and director of an adult literacy program in New Mexico for the Works Projects Administration.

Jane Addams
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When Jane Addams penned Twenty Years at Hull House: With Autobiographical Notes, she presented her life story as inextricably tied to her work in running a settlement house. Addams was born into an affluent family in Illinois, but comfort and leisure did not suit her. After spending much of her early life searching for outlets for progressive work, Addams became a reformer.

Dr. Clyde Wahrhaftig
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Dr. Clyde Wahrhaftig was a geologist, LGBTQ activist, environmentalist, and scientist who studied the geology of Golden Gate National Recreation Area and Yosemite National Park.