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Volunteer Charles and maintenance team member Bud work together each week to keep the parks’ engines humming, to ensure the historic landscapes are beautiful and inviting to visitors, and habitats preserved for the animals that call its meadows and trees home.
Manhattan Project National Historical Park
Oak Ridge Wayside: Enlisting Nature in Fight for Freedom
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A wayside exhibit in Oak Ridge, Tennessee describing a pollinator garden, one aspect of victory gardens that provided fruits and vegetables for the war effort.
Bryce Canyon National Park
Whiteman Connecting Trail Trailhead
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Experience the solitude of Bryce's forested backcountry on the Under the Rim Trail. Descending from the rim, this 22.9 mile (37 km) trail meanders through forests and meadows, offering stunning views of pink-hued cliffs in the distance.
Mesa Verde National Park
Farming Terrace Trail
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Beginning and ending on the spur road to Cedar Tree Tower, this 0.5-mile (0.8 km) loop trail leads through a series of check dams built by the Ancestral Pueblo people over 800 years ago.
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Located at the heart of the Tennessee Hollow Watershed, El PolÃn offers visitors a chance to connect with the Presidio's earliest history, experience some of the park's best birdwatching and enjoy the blooms and wildlife made possible by the year-round flow of the spring.
Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site
El Pomar
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Natchez Trace Parkway
Rock Spring, Milepost 330.2
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Rock Spring - a nature trail offers you an opportunity to explore a small natural spring as it bubbles forth from the ground. Small fish dart about in the deep pools created as the stream wanders through the rich bottomland soil and limestone rock. Vegetation and trees change as you move through an abandoned field past the stream into a rocky hillside. After completing the 20 minute walk you may decide to pull off your shoes and dangle your feet in the swift cool water.
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The series of storms that pummeled California from January through March 2023 brought record precipitation, river flows, and snowpack to many parts of the state, including the Sierra Nevada. By spring, wildflower blooms splashed across deserts and valleys, and by late summer, higher elevations. Accompanying some of these blooms was an abundance of white-lined sphinx moths, behaving like hummingbirds as they fed on wildflower nectar. Learn more about this "irruption" of moths.
Petroglyph National Monument
Rinconada Canyon Stop 5
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Bryce Canyon National Park
Riggs Spring Loop Trailhead at Yovimpa
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Experience the solitude of Bryce's forested backcountry on the Riggs Spring Loop. Descending from the rim, this 8.8 mile (14.2 km) trail meanders through forests and raised promontories, offering stunning views of pink-hued cliffs in the distance.
Capulin Volcano National Monument
Outside Science (inside parks): Interns in Capulin Volcano National Monument
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If you've ever completed an internship, you know that it can bring unanticipated opportunities...like banding hummingbirds at Capulin Volcano National Monument. Watch Cassi Hill explain how her internship kickstarted her career.
Capulin Volcano National Monument
Outside Science (inside parks): Hummingbirds–Banding Together in Capulin Volcano National Monument
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The Outside Science crew spends time at Capulin during hummingbird banding time, which is an interactive process involving park visitors, interns, volunteers, and park staff.
Dinosaur National Monument
Island Park Trail
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This hike takes you through a diversity of scenery, including the multi-hued panorama of Island Park, grasslands, desert shrub community, and sandstone canyons. The Island Park Trail connects the Jones Hole Trail with the Island Park area. It follows the historic route that rangers used to access the Jones Hole area prior to the construction of Jones Hole National Fish Hatchery and its access road.
Petrified Forest National Park
Arizona: Painted Desert Inn
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Only one national park in the country includes and protects a section of historic Route 66: the Petrified Forest National Park with one of the world’s largest and most colorful concentrations of petrified wood, multi-hued badlands of the Painted Desert, historic structures, archeological sites, and displays of over 200-million-year-old fossils.
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The ruby-throated hummingbird is the only bird of that species that makes its home east of the Mississippi. Learn more about this remarkable bird.
Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve
Kanat’á - Early Blueberry - Glacier Bay Ethnobotany
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Keep an eye out in late spring for this plant's tiny pink flowers! One of the first flowers of the season, they attract rufous hummingbirds and other early pollinators.
Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument
Ajo Mountain Drive Stop 15
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Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument
Ajo Mountain Drive Stop 7
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Channel Islands National Park
Torrey Pines Hike
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View one of the rarest pines in the world, the Torrey pine. The moderate route allows visitors to view the pines along the flat Coastal Road. The strenuous route follows the loop trail to the top of the grove, providing spectacular views. . Distance: 5 miles to base of pines; 7.5 miles via the loop trail (both are round trip from pier) Difficulty: Moderate to strenuous
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