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Volunteer Charles and maintenance team member Bud work together each week to keep the parks’ engines humming, to ensure the historic landscapes are beautiful and inviting to visitors, and habitats preserved for the animals that call its meadows and trees home.
Bryce Canyon National Park
Whiteman Connecting Trail Trailhead
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Experience the solitude of Bryce's forested backcountry on the Under the Rim Trail. Descending from the rim, this 22.9 mile (37 km) trail meanders through forests and meadows, offering stunning views of pink-hued cliffs in the distance.
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The series of storms that pummeled California from January through March 2023 brought record precipitation, river flows, and snowpack to many parts of the state, including the Sierra Nevada. By spring, wildflower blooms splashed across deserts and valleys, and by late summer, higher elevations. Accompanying some of these blooms was an abundance of white-lined sphinx moths, behaving like hummingbirds as they fed on wildflower nectar. Learn more about this "irruption" of moths.
Petroglyph National Monument
Rinconada Canyon Stop 5
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Indiana Dunes National Park
Emma Pitcher
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Emma Bickham Pitcher was a skilled educator who excelled at bridging the information gap between the national park’s science division and an eager public. She was a highly respected amateur naturalist who carefully studied the subtle intricacies of local habitats and enthusiastically relayed them through informative lectures, guided walks, and wonderfully engaging nature-writing.
Acadia National Park
Get to know Acadia's Precious Pollinators
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Get to know Acadia's Pollinators
Bryce Canyon National Park
Riggs Spring Loop Trailhead at Yovimpa
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Experience the solitude of Bryce's forested backcountry on the Riggs Spring Loop. Descending from the rim, this 8.8 mile (14.2 km) trail meanders through forests and raised promontories, offering stunning views of pink-hued cliffs in the distance.
Capulin Volcano National Monument
Outside Science (inside parks): Interns in Capulin Volcano National Monument
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If you've ever completed an internship, you know that it can bring unanticipated opportunities...like banding hummingbirds at Capulin Volcano National Monument. Watch Cassi Hill explain how her internship kickstarted her career.
Capulin Volcano National Monument
Outside Science (inside parks): Hummingbirds–Banding Together in Capulin Volcano National Monument
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The Outside Science crew spends time at Capulin during hummingbird banding time, which is an interactive process involving park visitors, interns, volunteers, and park staff.
Dinosaur National Monument
Island Park Trail
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This hike takes you through a diversity of scenery, including the multi-hued panorama of Island Park, grasslands, desert shrub community, and sandstone canyons. The Island Park Trail connects the Jones Hole Trail with the Island Park area. It follows the historic route that rangers used to access the Jones Hole area prior to the construction of Jones Hole National Fish Hatchery and its access road.
Petrified Forest National Park
Arizona: Painted Desert Inn
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Only one national park in the country includes and protects a section of historic Route 66: the Petrified Forest National Park with one of the world’s largest and most colorful concentrations of petrified wood, multi-hued badlands of the Painted Desert, historic structures, archeological sites, and displays of over 200-million-year-old fossils.
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The ruby-throated hummingbird is the only bird of that species that makes its home east of the Mississippi. Learn more about this remarkable bird.
Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve
Kanat’á - Early Blueberry - Glacier Bay Ethnobotany
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Keep an eye out in late spring for this plant's tiny pink flowers! One of the first flowers of the season, they attract rufous hummingbirds and other early pollinators.
Golden Gate National Recreation Area
2 - Exploring Fort Mason
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KIOSK LOCATION: The kiosk is a four-sided metal structure with interpretive panels. It is located east of building 201, at the intersection of Macarthur Avenue and Franklin Street. It is close to Fort Mason's flagpole.
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One aspect of serpentinite rocks is an abundance of seeps and springs formed where groundwater moves along fracture surfaces and escapes to the surface. This groundwater is often very alkaline and can be home to plant species specifically adapted to those conditions, like Franciscan thistle. The willows seen here grow naturally in wet areas and are indicative of water near the ground surface, in this case coming from serpentine seeps.
Lewis & Clark National Historic Trail
Broad-tailed Hummingbird
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On June 15, 1806, in today’s Clearwater County, Idaho, Meriwether Lewis wrote in his journal, “found the nest of a humming-bird, which had just begun to lay its eggs.” At that time, only two hummingbird species had been identified in North America; today there are eight. So it’s not known with certainty the species observed by Lewis.
Golden Gate National Recreation Area
Birds in the Scrubland
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Keep an ear and an eye out for signs of song birds. You may notice some elaborate calls and wonder where they're coming from in the brush. That's because several species like to hide out in the scrubland, though some may make themselves more prominent if it's springtime.Some song birds that have been observed at Mori Point include the California thrasher, Anna's hummingbird and several species of sparrows.
Cuyahoga Valley National Park
Junior Ranger, Jr. Explores Hummingbirds
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Imagine, make, move and explore the world of hummingbirds! This wildlife activity page is part of a series for ages 3-6.
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Curious about the Anna's hummingbird in southern Oregon and northern California? Explore its natural history in this edition of our monthly “Featured Creature,” brought to you by the Klamath Inventory and Monitoring Network.
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The National Audubon Society has created research summaries for 274 national park units that describe how projected changes in climate under different emissions scenarios are likely to affect local bird populations.