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Assateague Island National Seashore

Outside Science (inside parks): Bird Health at Assateague Island
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Assateague Island, way out on the Maryland coast, may be famous for its wild horses, but it’s also a great spot for birds. In this episode of Outside Science (inside parks), park scientists and interns are giving birds a health check-up to make sure they’re doing okay.

Invasive Exotic Plant Monitoring at Curecanti National Recreation Area
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Invasive exotic plants are one of the most significant threats to natural resources in the national parks today. To provide early warning of weed invasions, the Northern Colorado Plateau Network monitors target plants in park areas where they are likely to first establish: along roads, trails, and waterways. Find out what we've learned at Curecanti National Recreation Area.

Hampton National Historic Site

Ann's story at Hampton
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Ann is with our friend's group Historic Hampton Inc (HHI). She has played a role in supporting and helping Hampton for decades! It all started when her friend invited her to a meeting. She told us all about her experience with Hampton, click to learn more!

Arkansas: Little Rock Central High School
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At Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site in Arkansas, exhibits tell the story of those times, and interactive oral history stations give you a chance to hear the people who were there tell the story in their own words.

Valles Caldera National Preserve

Valles Caldera Announces 2025 Artists in Residence
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Valles Caldera National Preserve has selected five artists to take part in its inaugural Artist in Residence (AiR) program during the 2025 summer season. Through the AiR program, selected artists will immerse themselves in the park’s natural and cultural landscapes to create original artistic works inspired by the setting. During their residencies, they will also share their work with the public through presentations and interactive workshops. Meet this year's artists!

Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site

Little Rock Central High School
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Little Rock Central High School, a functioning 9th - 12th grade facility, is a combined Collegiate Gothic and Art Deco style building that covers much of two city blocks and contains over 150,000 square feet. The school is closed to the public.

Liberty Theatre
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Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park

Eruption Viewing from Wahinekapu
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Experience the heat from nearby steam vents as you take in the breathtaking views of the eruption, with unobstructed, panoramic views of the entire cinder cone. Located on Crater Rim Drive West, 1 mile (4 minutes) from entrance station. A popular, but congested spot due to being the first overlook you encounter upon entering the park.

Series: Northeast Coastal and Barrier Network Publications
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Explore the recent publications on NPS.gov from the Northeast Coastal and Barrier Network. The listed items were created by Michaela Compo, NCBN Biological Science Technician, with technical expertise contributed by the whole NCBN team.

Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park

Old Slater Mill
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A New Way to Study Bees
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The National Park Service (NPS) is on a mission to deepen its understanding of the bees living in parks. Traditional survey methods require significant time, specialized expertise, and the collection of specimens from their natural habitats for species-level identification. With limited bee specialists available and a growing need for efficient, cost-effective methods, the NPS sought an alternative approach.

Manhattan Project National Historical Park

Manhattan Project Scientists: Louis Alexander Slotin
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Louis Slotin was a Manhattan Project physicist who witnessed both CP-1 and X-10 reach criticality. In May 1946, Slotin received a lethal dose of radiation during a criticality experiment at Los Alamos, dying nine days later. Read more about his life and death at the link.

Manhattan Project National Historical Park

Manhattan Project Scientists: Ernest Orlando Lawrence
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Ernest Lawrence was the inventor of the cyclotron, one of the most important contributions to the success of the Manhattan Project. Learn more about this Nobel Prize-winning physicist at the link.

Manhattan Project National Historical Park

Manhattan Project Scientists: Enrico Fermi
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Enrico Fermi, under the direction of Arthur Compton, developed the Chicago Pile (CP-1), the world's first nuclear reactor. Due partly to this success, Fermi was recruited by J. Robert Oppenheimer to be an associate director of the secret laboratory at Los Alamos. Learn more about Fermi at the link.

Manhattan Project National Historical Park

Manhattan Project Leaders: Henry L. Stimson
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Secretary of War during the Manhattan Project, Henry L. Stimson was General Leslie Groves’ immediate supervisor, authorized project sites, and made sure the project was given anything needed to be successful. President Harry Truman once said of Stimson, “I felt how fortunate the country was to have so able and so wise a man in its service.”

Manhattan Project National Historical Park

Manhattan Project Scientists: J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Often referred to as the "father of the atomic bomb", physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer directed atomic bomb development at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project. The top-secret work at Los Alamos culminated in Trinity, the world's first successful nuclear test on July 16, 1945. Learn more about Oppenheimer's role in developing the atomic bomb at the link.

Forest Regeneration 2024
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Forest regeneration in the National Capital Region continues to slowly improve, especially in parks that manage their deer populations. A look at forest regeneration capacity based on monitoring data from 2024.

2021 Estuarine Nutrient Enrichment Status Report: Cape Cod NS
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Cape Cod is a large glacial moraine peninsula that extends 96.5 km into the Atlantic Ocean from the coast of Massachusetts. Cape Cod National Seashore (CACO) is located on the outer portion of Cape Cod. Almost all the estuarine habitat at CACO is associated with two large coastal lagoon systems, Pleasant Bay (PB) and Nauset Harbor/Marsh (NH). Due to restricted flushing with the ocean and residential development pressures outside the seashore boundary...

Grand Canyon National Park

Tusayan Pueblo Site and Self-guiding Trail
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The pueblo site and self-guiding trail are open Thursday through Friday, from 9 am to 4 pm. Located 3 miles (4.8km) west of Desert View Watchtower, the site is a small Ancestral Puebloan village showing the outlines of rooms and a round kiva. Visitors can walk a relatively flat 0.1 mile (200 m) self-guiding trail around the site. Visit the Native American Artisan Market with authentic and beautiful arts and crafts for sale. The adjacent museum is CLOSED until further notice.

Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park

Eruption Viewing from Uēkahuna
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The overlook at Uēkahuna offers great views into Halemaʻumaʻu crater and surrounding areas from the summit of Kīlauea volcano. Located at the end of Crater Rim Drive West, a 2.8 mile (7 minute) drive from the entrance station. Family-friendly location with ranger's on-site for information. More available parking compared to other locations.