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Park Science Magazine: Greatest Hits

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Park Science is the flagship science magazine of the National Park Service. It covers research and stewardship related to our national parks. Discover the advances in science and technology that help us preserve, understand, and enjoy our public lands. Check out some of our "Greatest Hits" — Park Science stories that really resonated with readers.

Heartland Network Junior Scientist

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You can be a Heartland Inventory and Monitoring Network Junior Scientist! Explore what it is like to be a scientist that monitors plants, animals, and their habitats national parks. You will explore the 15 parks of the Heartland Network, make observations, identify animals and plants, and learn why scientists use scientific names for organisms. Visit a Heartland Network Park to complete the activities in the booklet or download the booklet here.

Reconstruction Era National Historical Park

May We Pray?

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This poem is part of a series by Ellen Murray, a co-founder of the Penn School on St. Helena Island, SC. "May We Pray?" was first published in the National Anti-Slavery Standard on January 11, 1862.

Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve

Liberty Theatre

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Nicodemus National Historic Site

A.M.E. Church

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The A.M.E. (African Methodist Episcopal) Church formed in Nicodemus in 1879 and met in different buildings until they obtained this building from the Mount Pleasant Baptist Church in 1910, which had built it in 1885. The A.M.E. Church worshipped here until around the 1950s when it closed due to a declining congregation. The restored building is open to the public during site business hours.

Nicodemus National Historic Site

Township Hall

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Built from 1937-1939 as a Works Progress Administration (WPA) project with local limestone, the Nicodemus Township Hall has served as a central meeting place for the community for decades. Representing the pillar of self-determination in African American communities, this building hosted everything from voting and township meetings to dances and roller-skating. It currently houses the site's visitor center.

Lava Beds National Monument

Captain Jacks Stronghold, Tulelake, Ca

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Valles Caldera National Preserve

The San Antonio Cabin

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San Antonio Cabin often housed cowboys when this land was privately-owned and operating as a ranch.

Vegetation Monitoring at San Antonio Missions National Historical Park: Results for 2023

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The Gulf Coast I&M Network conducts vegetation monitoring fieldwork once every four years in each park. This article presents a brief project overview and key findings from the 2023 I&M vegetation monitoring event in San Antonio Missions National Historical Park (NHP), Texas, which was the second round of sampling for the park.

Joshua Tree National Park

Rattlesnake Picnic Area

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Picnic area in Indian Cove

Timber Rattlesnakes Show Their Tender Side

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Sixty seconds is all it takes to be captivated by this reclusive animal’s motherly instincts.

The White House and President's Park

1979 March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights

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Participants in the first National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights marched across E Street in front of the South Lawn of the White House on October 14, 1979. The 1979 march is seen as the birth of a national movement for LGB rights that helped small, local organizations unite, know that they were not alone, and bring their issues to a national stage showcasing their collective power.

Murphy Wagon Replica

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The Murphy Wagon was used first by traders on the Santa Fe Trail. Later, emigrants adapted the Murphy wagon to haul their belongings to Oregon and California.

Indiana Dunes National Park

Henry Blake Fuller

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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.

Willa Cather

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Born December 7, 1873, in Virginia, Willela Sibert Cather grew up on the dusty plains of Red Cloud, Nebraska. Her life took her across the country, and she would become one of the premiere American authors of the 1900s.

Katharine Lee Bates

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Katharine Lee Bates was a professor and writer best remembered as the author of the lyrics to the song “America the Beautiful.” She shared a home for almost three decades with her companion, fellow academic and social reformer Katharine Coman.

Places of Katharine Lee Bates and “America the Beautiful”

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The opening lines of “America the Beautiful” first struck Katharine Lee Bates atop Pikes Peak in the Rocky Mountains. During the summer of 1893, she embarked on a journey across the United States. Originally written as a poem, many of the lines in Bates’ ode to the American landscape refer to geographical features she encountered during her travels.

Rebecca Winters

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Rebecca Winters was emigrating to Utah with her family in 1852 when she contracted Cholera and died within sight of Scotts Bluff. Her grave site was marked with a metal wagon wheel rim that was engraved “Rebecca Winters, Age 50.”

Scotts Bluff National Monument

Prairie View Trail

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The West Trailhead of Scotts Bluff National Monument's Prairie View Trail. This trail is open to bicyclists and hikers and connects to the City of Gering's Monument Valley Pathway.