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This elephant seal breeding season, the single-day cow count peaked at 1,159 on 1/27, which is similar to last year’s peak count of 1,165. Pup counts were higher than the five-year average this season. This is likely due to the lack of strong storms this winter and thus high pup survival.
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Only 16 cows and 14 nursing pups remain at the Seashore! There are still 112 males scattered around, looking for their last chance to mate. This year’s weaned pup counts are higher than average. A total of 1063 weanlings were counted on 3/6.
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Fala, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s beloved Scottish Terrier, was a constant companion to the President, traveling with him, charming the public, and even inspiring a famous speech. After FDR’s death, Fala lived with Eleanor Roosevelt until his own passing, earning a place near his master’s grave.
Yellowstone National Park
Lamar Valley - Wolf Watching
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Tumacácori National Historical Park
Melhok Ki (ocotillo and mud house)
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The O'odham word for house is "ki" (kee). Melhok (pronounced moo' ro) is the word for the plant known in Spanish and English as "ocotillo." The particular structure that you see here is a modern construction of a traditional O'odham dwelling, made of mesquite timbers, ocotillo sticks, and mud.
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When they come ashore to breed each winter, male northern elephant seals usually show off a predictable, mating-focused behavioral repertoire. Heroic or even helpful acts are basically not in there. It's not just them; helping others is quite rare among male marine mammals in general. So Marine Ecologist Dr. Sarah Allen and Wildlife Biologist Matt Lau could hardly believe their eyes as they watched a bull rescue a pup on January 27, 2022, at Point Reyes National Seashore.
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The Ken Patrick Visitor Center area was a busy pupping site this year. The seal count on the beach in front of the Visitor Center was the highest it has ever been, peaking at 139 cows and 96 pups during the first week of February. All told, approximately 950 pups weaned across Point Reyes this year, compared to the highest count of 1,153 weaned pups in 2021.
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The 2021-2022 elephant seal pupping and breeding season is just getting underway at Point Reyes National Seashore. The elephant seal monitoring crew recorded the season’s first pup on December 25th. Drakes Beach was closed on January 5th due to a large number of male seals in front of the Ken Patrick Visitor Center. It will remain closed unless seal numbers decrease. Other annual beach closures are also in effect.
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Keely Rennie-Tucker is a Museum Curator with the Museum Services Program in the Regional Office for Regions 3, 4, and 5, located in Omaha, Nebraska.
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National Park Service and Marin County Parks staff and volunteers counted 682 harbor seal pups in 2024, well below the long-term average of 1,052 pups. And just like during the breeding season, the molt season count of all seals was the lowest on record. Only 1,788 seals hauled out to molt during the summer of 2024. That's about a 50 percent decline from the long-term average of 3,366 molting seals. Reasons for the declines remain largely mysterious.
Point Reyes National Seashore
Elephant Seal Overlook at Chimney Rock
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Perched above Drakes Bay, the elephant seal overlook at Chimney Rock provides excellent viewing opportunities to see breeding and pupping seals in the winter and spring and molting seals in the summer and fall.
Padre Island National Seashore
Grasslands Nature Trail
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The Grasslands Nature Trail is a 0.75-mile (1.2 km) loop trail with paved access to the grasslands and dunes of the island, and provides benches interspersed throughout the loop. Among the abundant dune grasses and wildflowers of the coastal prairie, hikers may also spot ground squirrels, keeled earless lizards, crested caracaras, and a variety of other wildlife from the trail.
Great Basin National Park
Nevada Bat Plan
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On warm summer nights, vast numbers of bats fly above our heads. Bats are the only mammals capable of true flight and use high frequency echolocation calls to detect and capture insect prey. Because we can’t see or hear them, we are largely unaware of the incredible abundance of bats.
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Scott Gende is the Natural Resources Team Lead for the Alaska Region.
Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park
Mural II, III, IV- Ke Ali'i
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Lewis & Clark National Historic Trail
Boats on the Missouri
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Mackinaw boats and keeled boats were among the craft used to navigate the Missouri River in the 19th century.
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The female elephant seal is ready. It’s early January in Point Reyes, and she’s been hauled out on Drakes Beach for a few days. She’s waiting to give birth. The seal mom’s choice to birth her pup on Drakes Beach this year might have been motivated partially by the treacherous conditions at another beach spot, the Point Reyes Headlands. Little does she know, climate change is the driving cause behind beaches becoming less hospitable for elephant seals.
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Visitors to Bay Area coastlines might spot cautious, curious harbor seals snoozing on rocks or sandbars any time of year. But annual harbor seal monitoring efforts focus on the pupping and molting seasons, from March to July. This is when the seals spend greater amounts of time hauled out of the water. With the 2023 pupping season peak now past, we have counted fewer pups than average across all Marin County haul out sites.
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The beach in front of The Ken Patrick Visitor Center (KPVC) once again became a haul out site this breeding season, likely in response to the intense storms in early January. Near the season peak, 77 females were present, and 62 pups were nursing. Similar behavior was observed in 2019 and 2021. These storms caused the peak of pupping to lag about a week behind last year’s peak, and about 100 less females and weaned pups were counted compared to last year.
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Understand how battlefield medical care developed during the Civil War, particularly in the Union Army.