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Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park
Pollinator Garden
- Type: Place
The pollinator garden at Resaca de la Palma Battlefield helps provide plants for use by local wildlife in a landscape where their habitat is highly fragmented.
Manhattan Project National Historical Park
Latinx Experiences at Hanford: Frank Armijo
- Type: Article
Listen to clips from an oral history interview with Frank Armijo as he shares memories growing up in Pasco, his joy and passion in the work that he accomplished at Hanford, and advice for youth. Frank Armijo’s parents were initially migrant farm workers from Texas who had met in Walla Walla. On one of the family’s work trips to the state, Frank’s dad, Rosalio, picked up additional work with a construction company that brought the family to Tri-Cities around the early-1960s.
Golden Gate National Recreation Area
Jose Sarria
- Type: Person
Military history, LGB culture, immigrant stories, and much more make up GGNRA's roots. For José Sarria, a LGB activist in San Francisco, all the above apply. Born in the Bay Area to a single mother from Colombia, Sarria became the first openly gay, public figure. He ran for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1961.
Stonewall National Monument
Stonewall National Monument: Rising for Equality
- Type: Article
Stonewall National Monument commemorates an important site and historic event in the the movement for LGBTQ rights. The Stonewall Inn was popular with the African American and Latinx LGBTQ community, and the crowd that gathered to demonstrate in the early hours of June 28, 1969 included many people of color. Today the site is recognized for its connection to LGBTQ history, African American history, and the history of civil rights for all in America.
- Type: Article
On June 24, 1973, thirty-two people were killed when a meeting of Metropolitan Community Church (MCC) members and friends was attacked by arson in this New Orleans lounge. In the aftermath of the horrific event, survivors and church members suffered rejection and homophobic ridicule from police, community members, and neighboring churches.
- Type: Article
Just like jazz, researchers and historians are still learning about salsa history; there are many and various opinions about what salsa is, how it came to be, and what is important in the history of salsa. Instead of defining what salsa is, Oíste? Listening to the Salsa Stories of Afro Latin Music presents some of many salsa stories so that we can start to better understand what salsa means to people both now and then.
Santa Fe National Historic Trail
Boggsville Historic Site
- Type: Place
Boggsville was once a stage stop on the Santa Fe Trail. Key businesses there were trading stores, owned by Thomas O. Boggs (built in 1862) and John W. Prowers (built in 1867). Boggsville became the seat of Bent County in 1870, but the coming of the railroad to nearby Las Animas brought about the town's downfall by 1880.
Manhattan Project National Historical Park
Latinx Experiences at Hanford: Michelle Molina
- Type: Article
Listen to clips from an oral history interview with Michelle Molina as she shares memories of living in Ecuador with friends and family as well as adjustments she made in her move to the Tri-Cities as a teenager in 2009. Many of the ways Michelle found community in the Tri-Cities was connecting with other students who had roots outside the United States. Her involvement with the International Club at Hanford High School was a definitive moment in her life.
Manhattan Project National Historical Park
Latinx Experiences at Hanford: Magdaleno Gamboa
- Type: Article
Listen to clips from an oral history interview with Magdaleno Gamboa as he shares memories from his experiences in the Army, where he was stationed in Germany and trained as a mechanic. After serving in the Army, Magdaleno eventually found work at Hanford, doing overhauls on buses, trucks, and large vehicles. Magdaleno spent about twenty years as a mechanic at Hanford from the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s.
Manhattan Project National Historical Park
Latinx Experiences at Hanford: Carlos Leon
- Type: Article
Listen to clips from an oral history interview with Carlos Leon. Carlos holds strong roots in multiple communities of Eastern Washington, having been born in Toppenish in the 1950s and living in the Tri-Cities for over fifty years. At the age of twenty-one, Carlos became the first Latino reactor operator to work at Hanford.
Manhattan Project National Historical Park
Latinx Experiences at Hanford: Ruben Lemos
- Type: Article
Listen to clips from an oral history interview with Ruben Lemos as he shares his experiences growing up as a child of migrant farm workers. During the 1950s, Ruben and his family traveled year-round to places for work in Washington, Oregon, California, and Arizona. Ruben remembers picking strawberries in the Skagit Valley, asparagus in the Yakima Valley, and cotton in Arizona.
Manhattan Project National Historical Park
Latinx Experiences at Hanford: Adán
- Type: Article
Listen to clips from an oral history interview with Adán as he shares his experiences living with his family in Pasco, Washington for nearly a half of century. Embodying a lifelong commitment to giving back to his community, Adán excelled in education and eventually became an educator and counselor at Pasco High School and Columbia Basin College after working at Hanford for seven years.
Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument
Aliante Parkway Kiosk
- Type: Place
This interpretive kiosk is located at N. Aliante Pkwy & W. Moonlight Falls Ave. The kiosk describes the history of scientific research at Tule Springs, safety tips, park regulations, and a map of the monument. This area features relatively flat terrain, creosote desert scrub habitat, and views of the Las Vegas and Sheep ranges.
Boston National Historical Park
First Public School Site
- Type: Place
A statue of Benjamin Franklin overlooks the first site of the Latin School, the oldest public school in America. Franklin, Samuel Adams, and John Hancock all attended the Latin School. Puritan settlers built the first schoolhouse on this location in 1635.
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El Programa de Inventario y Monitoreo está dedicado a aportar la información necesaria para que los directores de los parques tomen decisiones acertadas con base científica. Estas decisiones ayudarán a apoyar la misión del National Park Service, que es conservar los recursos de los espacios más especiales y valorados de América para las generaciones futuras.
- Type: Article
El monitoreo de signos vitales del Programa del Inventario y Monitoreo (I&M) del NPS aporta datos e información científicamente fiables del estado y la tendencia de determinados recursos naturales a los directores de parques, planificadores, y demás sectores interesados. Esta información sirve como base para tomar decisiones y trabajar con otras agencias y con el público, para la protección a largo plazo de los ecosistemas de los parques.
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Every time I venture on a new trail, I scan the mountains, looking for burn scars, trying to gauge the extent of the Las Conchas (2011) and Thompson Ridge (2013) fires. It’s one thing to study a color-coded map that shows severity and extent of the burns, it’s another to stand on a hillside among acres and acres of downed trees, then see similar damage miles away caused by the same fire.
Valles Caldera National Preserve
"Cerro La Jara" by Melissa Fu
- Type: Article
On my first walk around Cerro La Jara, when rounding the north side of the dome, I see two coyotes hunting and loping along. Their tawny browns, blacks and grays blend in with the grasses. I hold my phone camera up, recording a video while tracking them with my bare eyes. Transfixed, I watch until they dissolve into the landscape. When I look at the video later, they aren’t there. Of course they aren’t.
Grand Portage National Monument
Ojibwe Horse Visits Grand Portage
- Type: Article
Lac La Croix ponies or Ojibwe horses, known in the Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) language as bebezhigooganzhii or mishtadim, stand only 14 hands high (just under 5 feet). They once roamed free in Minnesota and northwestern Ontario and are perfectly adapted to life in the north country. At one time they were community animals, serving as winter labor and wandering free to forage in the summer months.
Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument
Corn Creek Visitor Center - US Fish & Wildlife Service
- Type: Place
Desert National Wildlife Refuge is a neighbor and partner to Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument. Encompassing six major mountain ranges and seven distinct life zones, Desert NWR showcases the abundance and variety of nature that can be found in Southern Nevada, all just a short drive from Las Vegas. The Corn Creek Visitor Center is staffed by US Fish & Wildlife Service staff and volunteers.