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Boreal shrub and tree expansion promotes soil warming
  • Type: Article

Read the abstract and get the link to an article published in Environmental Research Letters that connects vegetation shift to warming Arctic and Boreal soils under vegetation. Kropp, H., M. M. Loranty, S. M. Natali, A. L. Kholodov, A. V. Rocha, … J. A. O’Donnell … et al. 2020. Shallow soils are warmer under trees and tall shrubs across Arctic and Boreal ecosystems. Environmental Research Letters.

Johnstown Flood National Memorial

George Thompson Swank
  • Type: Person

George T. Swank was the editor and proprietor of the Johnstown Tribune.

Remarkable, Boring Mussels: Why Scientists Take Photos of Them Anyway
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Freshwater mussels help keep our waterways clean, among other benefits. But many mussel species are highly imperiled. Photo documentation is an important part of the work to rescue them.

Boston National Historical Park

Old State House
  • Type: Place

Built in 1713, this historic landmark served as the seat of colonial and state governments as well as a merchants’ exchange. In 1761 patriot James Otis opposed British Writs of Assistance here, inspiring John Adams to state, “then and there the child independence was born.” Nine years later, the building bore witness to the Boston Massacre, and on July 18, 1776, Bostonians heard the Declaration of Independence for the first time, read from the balcony of the building.

Grand Portage National Monument

Building a Bark Canoe at Grand Portage
  • Type: Article

Birch canoes were an integral part of the fur trade. The technology was born of the boreal forest and developed by the Anishinaabe and other Indigenous people to navigate the area's many rivers and lakes. This is the process used for hundreds of years.

Sitka National Historical Park

Teri Rofkar
  • Type: Person

She is remembered not just for beautiful works of art, but also for her passion and dedication to learning, teaching, and passing on the traditional ways of Lingít people. She held a deep connection to her natural world, and her inspiring humility is what her friends and family cherished most deeply.

Documenting History: Eisenhower and the Holocaust
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General Dwight D. Eisenhower made many decisions in his lifetime, but his passionate pleas to document the atrocities of the Holocaust was among the most important. Explore how Eisenhower and the Allies bore witness to the Holocaust in this article.

Monitoring Amphibians in Glacier
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Amphibians are excellent ecological indicators due to high sensitivity to slight changes in their environment. Worldwide declines in amphibian populations prompted the U.S. Geological Survey to begin a national effort to document trends of amphibian populations on federal lands. Research on amphibians in Glacier, particularly boreal toads, began in 2000. Researchers are documenting changes to population size, survival rates, and occupancy of suitable habitat.

Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore

Au Sable Light Station Wayside
  • Type: Place

Au Sable Light Station wayside. Located at the end of the Light Station Trail.

Project Profile: Assess Climate Change Effects on Colorado River National Parks to Inform River Management Planning
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Climate change is rapidly impacting National Park Service (NPS) units on the Colorado River, necessitating proactive planning to safeguard vital resources. The Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) is initiating a planning process post-2026, which will reevaluate dam operations, directly impacting the rivers and reservoirs in multiple parks. To inform these decisions, NPS will quantify the impacts on priority park resources through Climate Change Vulnerability Assessments (CCVAs).

An Economy of Adventure: The Life of a Voyageur
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Voyageurs National Park straddles a segment of the old “Voyageur’s Highway,” a 3,000-mile canoe route. The men who traversed this route, which included some 120 portages, 200 rapids, and 50 lakes, proudly bore the title of voyageurs. Archeological projects in the late 1970s to the present deepen understandings of the voyageurs’ lives—how they moved, shared cultures, and forged a lasting economy across an unfamiliar frontier.

Wrangell - St Elias National Park & Preserve

Yakutat
  • Type: Place

Accessible only by plane or boat, this area encompasses the park's coastal region, with 155 miles of little-known coastline. Here, huge mountains, enormous glaciers, and temperate rainforest meet the ocean. Visitor services are only found in the town of Yakutat, which is a plane or boat ride away from the park. https://www.nps.gov/wrst/planyourvisit/yakutat-and-coast.htm

Fire in Ecosystems: Arctic Tundra
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Fires in the tundra happen less often than in the boreal forest. Fires can be sporadic and widely distributed. The years between fire events, called fire return intervals, vary widely from 30 years to over 1,000 years in the tundra.

Wrangell - St Elias National Park & Preserve

Entrance Loop Information Sign
  • Type: Place

The Wrangell-St. Elias Entrance Loop Information Sign is located at the north end of the Headquarters driveway entrance loop, off the Richardson Hwy at mile 106.8 near Copper Center. There are three panels which include the park map, visitor center and ranger station locations, scenic images, map of the visitor center complex and map of the Bluff Overlook - Boreal Forest Trail.

Boreal forest ecology and wildland fire fuel treatments
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Read the abstract and access a paper on how wildland fire fuel treatments impact the ecology of boreal forests in Alaska: Boyd, M. A., X. J. Walker, J. Barnes, G. Celis, S. J. Goetz, J. F. Johnstone, N. T. Link, A. M. Melvin, L. Saperstein, E. A. G. Shuur, and M. C. Mack. 2023. Decadal impacts of wildfire fuel reduction treatments on ecosystem characteristics and fire behavior in Alaskan boreal forests. Forest Ecology and Management 546: 121347.

Acadia National Park

Essential Acadia: French
  • Type: Article

Bienvenue au Parc National de l'Acadie, le joyau de la couronne de la côte de l'Atlantique Nord. Visitez nps.gov/acadia pour apprendre plus sur le parc et pour planifier votre visite.

National Center for Preservation Technology and Training

Podcast 031: Cultural Heritage Recovery in Haiti
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Jason Church speaks with Karen Pavelka, a lecturer in the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin. Karen will talk about her experiences helping to setup a conservation lab at the Cultural Recovery Center in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Acadia National Park

Rachel Panitch
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Composer Rachel Panitch shares an audio recording of "Ambedo," which was inspired by time she spent at Isle au Haut. She participated as an Artist-in-Residence at Acadia National Park in 2018.

Acadia National Park

Kim O'Connell
  • Type: Article

Kim O'Connell shares an audio recorded reading of her essay about a zebrafish, a toenail, and a solo trip to a rustic cabin on Isle au Haut. She participated as an Artist-in-Residence at Acadia National Park in 2018.

Boreal Toad Research in Rocky Mountain National Park
  • Type: Article

Collecting soil samples at Lost Lake which are utilized to isolate potentially beneficial, naturally occurring bacteria from the boreal toad’s environment.