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Great Basin National Park

Series: The Midden - Great Basin National Park: Vol. 24, No. 2, Winter 2024

• Type: Article

The Midden is the Resource Management Newsletter of Great Basin National Park, published each summer and winter. Find out the latest going on at Great Basin National Park, Nevada in resource management and research. The The Midden – Great Basin National Park: Vol. 24, No. 2, Winter 2024

Great Basin National Park

Sounds in Lehman Caves

• Type: Article

What do you hear when you go in Lehman Caves? This study set out to make some recordings to help answer that question.

Great Basin National Park

A Winter in Great Basin National Park

• Type: Article

Although winter is often the slow season at Great Basin National Park, that's not the case when you're working underground. Find out how Scientist in the Park Heather Hansen spent her winter.

Great Basin National Park

Minerals and Microbes in Lehman Caves

• Type: Article

Lehman Caves is world famous for its many shields and other spectacular speleothems. But it also has other, less conspicuous minerals that hold important clues about the history of the cave. Find out more in this article.

Great Basin National Park

Series: The Midden - Great Basin National Park: Vol. 16, No. 1, Summer 2016

• Type: Article

The Midden is the Resource Management Newsletter of Great Basin National Park, published each summer and winter. Find out the latest going on at Great Basin National Park, Nevada in resource management and research. The Midden - Great Basin National Park: Vol. 16, No. 1, Summer 2016.

Great Basin National Park

Quantifying Wildlife at Cave Entrances

• Type: Article

What animals use cave entrances in Great Basin National Park? Remote cameras were deployed to answer that question during the summer of 2013. The cameras took photos when movement triggered them and were active 24 hours a day. Data from eight caves was analyzed. Cameras were deployed for a total of 372 trap days, with an average of 46.5 days per cave (range 28-62).

Cumberland Gap National Historical Park

Gap Cave

• Type: Place

Great Basin National Park

Cave Management Plans Finalized

• Type: Article

Great Basin National Park now has an approved Lehman Caves Management Plan and a Wild Caves and Karst Management Plan. These are the first cave management plans for the park, and they will help direct future management actions for the park’s 40 known caves and over 20,000 acres of karst (bedrock that may include caves).

Great Basin National Park

Series: The Midden - Great Basin National Park: Vol. 21, No.1, Summer 2021

• Type: Article

The Midden is the Resource Management Newsletter of Great Basin National Park, published each summer and winter. Find out the latest going on at Great Basin National Park, Nevada in resource management and research. The Midden - Great Basin National Park: Vol. 21, No. 2, Summer 2021

Great Basin National Park

International Year of Caves and Karst 2021

• Type: Article

Great Basin National Park is participating in the International Year of Caves and Karst 2021, a celebration of our natural underground spaces. This year we also prepare to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the designation of Lehman Caves National Monument on January 24, 2022. A public ceremony will be held at the Park on August 6, 2022.

Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park

Kū-ka-ʻilimoku

• Type: Place

A guardian god of governance and warfare, Kū-kaʽilimoku was a patron deity of the ruling aliʽi on the island of Hawaiʽi. See this carved kiʻi in the Royal Grounds near the kōnane papamū (playing surface).

Crystal Lake Cleanup at Mammoth Cave

• Type: Article

Countless people have walked above Crystal Lake in the Frozen Niagara section of Mammoth Cave over the last 100 years. Most leave only footprints and take only pictures, but occasionally trash, litter, or even a ninja turtle is left behind. Park resource managers worked on a special project to clean up this area of the cave and restore the waterway to a more natural state.

Workforce Management

Travel Blog: Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks

• Type: Article

Writing Prompt: Travel Blog written by Abigail Stone Lauer for "A Day in the Life of a Fellow" Article Series. Abby is a NPS Workforce Management Fellow, in partnership with Northwest Youth Corps

Making an Impact: Long-Term Monitoring of Natural Resources at Intermountain Region National Parks, 2021

• Type: Article

Across the Intermountain Region, Inventory & Monitoring Division ecologists are helping to track the effects of climate change, provide baseline information for resource management, evaluate new technologies, and inspire the next generation of park stewards. This article highlights accomplishments achieved during fiscal year 2021.

Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park

Sinking Spring

• Type: Place

Sinking Spring, located just below the hill on which Abraham Lincoln was born, was clearly identified in early land records. This water source was variably known as Sinking Spring, Rock Spring, and Cave Spring. However, early records generally refer to the landmark as Sinking Spring because the water dropped into a pit and disappeared into the earth. Thus, originated the name of the farm. The spring is located to the left of the steps leading up to the Memorial Building.

Travel Blog: Oregon Caves National Monument & Preserve

• Type: Article

Writing Prompt: Travel Blog written by Sarah Desmarais for "A Day in the Life of a Fellow" Article Series. Sarah is a NPS Workforce Management Fellow, in partnership with Northwest Youth Corps

Grand Canyon National Park

The Meadow

• Type: Place

As you passed through Kaibab National Forest and entered the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park, you probably noticed something unusual. On either side of you, tall and densely clustered pine or aspen trees abruptly end at the edges of this large meadow.

Mammoth Cave Core Visitor Services Area Cultural Landscape

• Type: Article

The natural features of Mammoth Cave National Park include the longest known cave system in the world, the surrounding river valleys, karst topography, and rolling, wooded hillsides. The cultural landscape is also a record of a 12,000-year conversation between people and land spanning the first explorations by prehistoric people, early mineral mining, pioneer homesteading, preparations for the War of 1812, and 200 years of tourism leading to development of the national park.

Stones River National Battlefield

Auto Tour Stop 2 - The Slaughter Pen

• Type: Place

Union soldiers fiercely defended their position here. Confederates launched attack after failed attack, causing heavy losses to both sides. Bodies piled up in the rocks, and blood soaked the ground. The Union retreated, but the delay gave their army time to form a new line along the Nashville Pike.

Cedar Creek & Belle Grove National Historical Park

Geology of the Shenandoah Valley

• Type: Article

Underground and surface forces, acting over many millions of years, created the Shenandoah Valley and its surrounding hills and ridges. These long, slow processes continue today as the Valley region gradually weathers, erodes, levels, and deposits soil.