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Shooting Stars

• Type: Article

Did you know? Shooting stars are not actual stars! What we call a shooting star is a streak of light from the burning dust of meteors entering Earth’s atmosphere at high speeds and vaporizing.

Capitol Reef National Park

Scenic Drive Stop 2

• Type: Place

What is the Waterpocket Fold? The tilted cliffs along the Scenic Drive are part of this massive wrinkle in the Earth’s crust.

Capitol Reef National Park

Scenic Drive Stop 1

• Type: Place

Capitol Reef’s sedimentary rock layers tell us stories from Earth’s ancient past.

Cedar Creek & Belle Grove National Historical Park

Lucy Buck

• Type: Person

Lucy Buck (left) and her sister, Nellie (right), witnessed the Battle of Front Royal. Lucy’s wartime diary was later published as Sad Earth, Sweet Heaven.

Capulin Volcano National Monument

Capulin Volcano National Monument

• Type: Place

Capulin Volcano National Monument provides access to nature’s most awe-inspiring work. Come view a dramatic landscape—a unique place of mountains, plains, and sky—born of fire and forces continually reshaping the earth’s surface.

The connection between glacier debris and melt

• Type: Article

Read a summary and get the link to a published article that describes how debris and surface hydrology account for melt on debris-covered glaciers: Petersen, E., R. Hock, and M. G. Loso. 2024. Stream hydrology controls on ice cliff evolution and survival on debris-covered glaciers. Earth Surface Dynamics (12)3: 727-745.

Why is Mount McKinley so big?

• Type: Article

Read a summary and link to a paper that describes the conditions that create Denali's height, in: Matmon, A., P. Haeussler, and M. G. Loso. 2024. Anomalously high relief on Denali, Alaska, caused by tectonic, lithologic, and climatic drivers. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 646: 118999.

JOINING VINCE'S CREW

• Type: Article

On a crisp fall morning in Annapolis, Wendy O'Sullivan met Vince Leggett just a few months into her role as Superintendent of the National Park Service Chesapeake Gateways program. Vince’s reputation as a change-maker preceded him, but for Wendy, meeting him felt like opening the first chapter of a treasured book—the kind you can’t put down, filled with dog-eared pages shared and reread time and again.

Bat-tastic Biodiversity: Big Thicket National Preserve Bat Inventory Update

• Type: Article

At Big Thicket National Preserve in Texas, the presence of bats yields several ecological benefits while roost trees offer the vital havens they need to thrive. Researchers conducted a species inventory to assess the bat population and health of their preferred habitat. Two at-risk species— Rafinesque’s big-eared bat and southeastern myotis, require old-growth wetland forest habitats with hollow trees for survival.

Yellowstone National Park

Ear Spring

• Type: Place

A hot spring in the Upper Geyser Basin

Homestead National Historical Park

Deep Roots in the Earth, wayside exhibit

• Type: Place

The soil stability offered by deep and integrated root systems is a hidden and yet key aspect of prairie.

Park Planning, Facilities and Lands Directorate

Beyond the Classroom: Your STEM Skills Can Build a Greener Future National Park Service

• Type: Article

Imagine a career where you could use your love of science and math to protect some of the most amazing places on Earth – our national parks! That's exactly what the National Park Service (NPS) is doing every day, thanks to the power of STEM.

Blue Ridge Parkway

Sims Pond

• Type: Place

Sims Pond is a small, man-made pond formed by and earth and stone dam and fed by Sims Creek. It's a picturesque spot that serves as the trail head for the Green Knob Trail.

Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site

Architecture born of earth and Colonization

• Type: Article

Construction of Bent’s Old Fort was started in 1833, interrupted by smallpox epidemic, and completed probably in the spring of 1835. Presumably it was designed by Charles Bent with William assisting and in charge of construction. It was probably based on forts he had seen in the East, and then influenced by the Mexican-Indian pueblos he saw in the Mexican Territory.

Golden Gate National Recreation Area

Battery Wallace

• Type: Place

When construction on Battery Wallace began in 1917, making the battery resistant to airstrikes was not considered in the design. The battery's primary weaponry, two 12-inch diameter guns, had no overhead protection against bombers. Despite this flaw, Battery Wallace became instrumental as a defense post during WWII. To give the battery some protection against potential Japanese bomber attacks, the 12-inch guns were buried under thick covers of earth and concrete.

Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park

Earth Lodge

• Type: Place

Visitors experience a view of the ancient past when they enter the Earth Lodge, a reconstructed council chamber of the Mississippian culture. The clay floor inside is the original floor, making it over 1,000 years old.

A Stellar Partnership: National Park Service and NASA partner on 2024 Eclipse Programming through Earth to Sky

• Type: Article

Public programming for the 2024 Total Eclipse was a team effort! With help from Earth to Sky—an organization that fosters collaboration between NASA and the National Park Service—visitors at Hot Springs National Park and other NPS sites in the eclipse path got to experience awe and learning as they witnessed the April 8, 2024 Total Eclipse.

Time Is Running Out: Maui’s Forest Birds Will Go Extinct without Action

• Type: Article

The island of Maui is known for beautiful sand beaches, rich Hawaiian culture, and stunning biodiversity, but the island is at risk of losing one of its most iconic features – the native forest birds, a group of species found nowhere else on earth.

Santa Fe National Historic Trail

Camp Grierson / Station Little Arkansas

• Type: Place

Troops were deployed to Camp Grierson to help protect travelers on the Santa Fe Trail. Visible depressions in the earth are remnants of the dugouts constructed for troop protection.

Channel Islands National Park

Chumash Rainbow Bridge Creation Story

• Type: Article

For Chumash elder Julie Tumamait-Stenslie, stories matter deeply. They are teachings that preserve knowledge and connection to the natural world. The Chumash “Rainbow Bridge” creation story teaches about honoring all life, connecting past to present, land to sea. If we listen closely to the stories that come from Indigenous forebears, they will help us find our way back to living in a more reciprocal, sustainable relationship with our one home, Mother Earth.