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Isle Royale National Park
Enduring Service
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Minong will go on with or without us – each spring, the snow will melt, loons will return, orchids will bloom, waves will crash upon its rocky shoreline. But will peace, solitude, and sanctuary persist? THE GREENSTONE (2025) Article by Bridget Byrne
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: 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 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.
Manhattan Project National Historical Park
Trinity Site, NM
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On July 16, 1945, Manhattan Project scientists detonated the world’s first atomic device, known as “the Gadget,” at 5:29 am Mountain War Time. The US Army conducted the test at the Trinity Site in the Jornada del Muerto desert about 210 miles (337 km) south of Los Alamos, New Mexico. Today the Trinity Site is part of the White Sands Missile Range and can only be visited during a Trinity Site Open House, typically hosted twice a year.
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
Wayside: Loon Lake's Glacial Past
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Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
Wayside: Welcome to Loon Lake and Sleeping Bear Dunes
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Manhattan Project National Historical Park
Accessibility at Los Alamos
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Manhattan Project National Historical Park is committed to ensuring that people with disabilities have equal opportunity to benefit from our facilities, programs, services, and activities whether they are indoors or outdoors. Learn more about accessible features available at Los Alamos.
Manhattan Project National Historical Park
Manhattan Project Scientists: Harry Daghlian
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Harry Daghlian was among the promising young scientists who came to work at Los Alamos as part of the Manhattan Project. Harotune Krikor Daghlian Jr. (1921-1945), known as Harry, was raised in Illinois, attended MIT, and had graduated from Purdue University. He had not yet earned his doctorate in physics when he joined Project Y. Daghlian was assigned to work with Otto Frisch’s Criticality Assembly Group. He helped transport the plutonium core to the Trinity Site.
Everglades National Park
Wildland Fire: Everglades NP Collaborates with Los Petenes Biosphere Reserve
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Everglades National Park fire and resource management staff attended the 2nd International Congress for Coastal Protected Areas with Tree Island Ecosystems in Campeche, Mexico, in September 2014. The conference, held at Los Petenes Biosphere Reserve, focused on fire-prone, wetland ecosystems in the Gulf of Mexico. This international collaboration reflects NPS interest in maintaining and restoring resilient landscapes.
Manhattan Project National Historical Park
109 East Palace Avenue, Santa Fe, NM
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On March 26, 1943, Dorothy McKibbin reported to work at 109 East Palace in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and learned that their employer was the secret Los Alamos Laboratory in the nearby mountains, part of the covert Manhattan Project. From her modest office, Dorothy became “gatekeeper” to Los Alamos since all civilian employees and many of the military personnel checked in through her office.
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El Programa de Inventario y Monitoreo está dedicado a aportar la información necesaria para que los directores de los parques tomen decisiones acertadas con base científica. Estas decisiones ayudarán a apoyar la misión del National Park Service, que es conservar los recursos de los espacios más especiales y valorados de América para las generaciones futuras.
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El monitoreo de signos vitales del Programa del Inventario y Monitoreo (I&M) del NPS aporta datos e información científicamente fiables del estado y la tendencia de determinados recursos naturales a los directores de parques, planificadores, y demás sectores interesados. Esta información sirve como base para tomar decisiones y trabajar con otras agencias y con el público, para la protección a largo plazo de los ecosistemas de los parques.
Valles Caldera National Preserve
"Arrival" by Melissa Fu
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It is astonishing to be here. Although I now live in Cambridge, England, I was born and raised 15 miles down the road in Los Alamos. Growing up, Valles Caldera, or The Valle as we called it, was always a place of seductive mystery. We loved it from afar, from the top of Pajarito Ski Hill, from the edges of New Mexico Highway 4, but never from inside its forbidden boundaries.
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
Ole & Magdalena Olsen Farm
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The Ole Olsen farm illustrates how farms were bought and sold within a community. Although the boundaries of this 120 acre farm have remained constant, ownership changed many times, but, for most of the time, it was owned by the Olsen family. A short hike of about 1/3 mile east from the buildings will take you behind Narada Lake, where herons, geese, and loons are often seen.
Old Spanish National Historic Trail
Workman and Temple Family Homestead Museum
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The Homestead Museum, a City of Industry historic-cultural landmark, shares with visitors a century of greater Los Angeles history from 1830 to 1930. The history of the Workman House (built 1842; remodeled about 1870), El Campo Santo Cemetery (1850s) and La Casa Nueva (completed 1927) and the Workman and Temple family help us better understand the story of the region during that era.
El Camino Real de los Tejas National Historic Trail
Ranchería Grande Exhibit Audio Description
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Interested in El Camino Real de los Tejas? Take a look at these interpretive exhibits and listen to their audio descriptions.
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The common loon is listed as a Species of Concern in Montana. Glacier National Park harbors an estimated 20% of the state's breeding population. For over a decade, Glacier researchers and citizen scientists have conducted surveys on key park lakes during breeding season, part of a statewide effort to monitor and manage risks to common loon populations.
Tumacácori National Historical Park
Los Santos Ángeles de Guevavi
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Guevavi is a name derived from the O'odham word for big spring, ge'e vavi, or big well, gu waihe. This settlement of O'odham people was first visited in January 1691 by Catholic Jesuit Father Eusebio Francisco Kino. It became a pivotal location in the Pima Revolt of 1751.
Manhattan Project National Historical Park
Bathtub Row
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How special is your bathtub to you? In wartime Los Alamos, most residents lived in hastily constructed housing. Houses with amenities like bathtubs were rare and reserved for the highest-ranking members of the Manhattan Project. These well-built homes with their luxurious bathtubs gave this street the nickname “Bathtub Row.” Visitors to Los Alamos can still walk down Bathtub Row today.