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Rocky Mountain National Park

Let Me Count the Ways: How Citizen Scientists Helped a Park Measure Visitor Impacts
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Wildly popular Rocky Mountain National Park wanted to assess the extent of resource damage from all that love. It needed the help of some ardent supporters.

Oíste? Podcast: Connecting People to Place and Space One Salsa Story at a Time
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The Oíste? Podcast explores salsa through captivating stories of contributors, covering dance, personal tales, oral history, and culture. Hosted by Melissa Hurtado and Hermán Luis Chávez, it features interviews with dancers, park rangers, journalists, and historians, giving listeners insights into salsa's impact on people's lives. Whether a salsa enthusiast or newcomer, the series immerses listeners in infectious rhythms and melodies while honoring salsa's enduring legacy.

Thomas Stone National Historic Site

Riddle Me This
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In the 18th-century, riddles were seen as both entertainment and as a way of proving that you were smart. Thomas Stone, as a lawyer trained in studying clues and facts, probably could have solved the following animals riddles. Can you?

Independence National Historical Park

"Forget Me Not" Poem, Philadelphia 1834
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This is a page from Amy Matilda Cassey's friendship album most likely written by either Margaretta or Mary Forten, daughters of James Forten. This page has a drawing of a forget-me-not flower, the subject of the poem, along with a poem.

Acadia National Park

Nathan Allard
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Nathan Allard, of Somerville, ME, is participating as a Visual Artist from Maine in the Artist-in-Residence program at Acadia National Park in 2025.

Series: A Stewardship of Storytelling
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"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." In this series, artist-in-residence Melissa Fu shares place-based memories and ponderings that weave together her upbringing in the Jemez Mountains and her recent residency at Valles Caldera National Preserve.

Valles Caldera National Preserve

Acknowledgements and Resources
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Spending three weeks as an Artist-In-Residence living, hiking, and writing in Valles Caldera was an incredible gift. The writing I’ve included here is just the beginning, there are so many more stories to write and tell. I hope to return and to continue. But for now, I’d like to thank all the staff who did so much to make me feel at home.

Valles Caldera National Preserve

"Benediction" by Melissa Fu
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I’ve had the extended, focused time in the mountains I have missed and dreamed of for years. But the time has also shown me who I am away from the mountains. I am of the mountains but not always in them. Like obsidian from Cerro del Medio, I bear the fingerprint of the Jemez in all that I do. But, like the much of the obsidian, I, too, have travelled far from my point of origin.

Valles Caldera National Preserve

"Departure" by Melissa Fu
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My UK life is knocking at the door, emails are leaking in: dentist appointment reminders, tutoring to arrange for my daughter, my own teaching and mentoring jobs resurfacing. A small but perceptible shift in my heart, time to go home. Home to the life I’ve built and nourished in England over the past 18 years.

"In the Eye of the Beholder" by Melissa Fu
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Every time I venture on a new trail, I scan the mountains, looking for burn scars, trying to gauge the extent of the Las Conchas (2011) and Thompson Ridge (2013) fires. It’s one thing to study a color-coded map that shows severity and extent of the burns, it’s another to stand on a hillside among acres and acres of downed trees, then see similar damage miles away caused by the same fire.

Valles Caldera National Preserve

"Cerro La Jara" by Melissa Fu
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On my first walk around Cerro La Jara, when rounding the north side of the dome, I see two coyotes hunting and loping along. Their tawny browns, blacks and grays blend in with the grasses. I hold my phone camera up, recording a video while tracking them with my bare eyes. Transfixed, I watch until they dissolve into the landscape. When I look at the video later, they aren’t there. Of course they aren’t.

Valles Caldera National Preserve

"Obsidian Valley" by Melissa Fu
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Morning e-bike ride to Obsidian Valley. I had forgotten how thrilling it is to ride a bike in the mountains. Nothing compares with the pure joy of coasting through patches of sun and shade, the scents of ponderosas, warm dust, and mountain sage in the air.

Valles Caldera National Preserve

"Nurturing a Land Ethic - In the Footsteps of Aldo Leopold" by Melissa Fu
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I have a not-so-secret agenda nestled in my stewardship of storytelling. I’d even call it a mission. My hope is that this work contributes to people articulating and nurturing their own personal versions of the land ethic. What is the land ethic?

Valles Caldera National Preserve

"The History Grove" by Melissa Fu
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On the first morning of my residency, I stroll half a mile along an old dirt logging road towards History Grove, a 125-acre stand of ponderosa pine and Douglas fir. These are some of the oldest living trees in Valles Caldera, ranging from 250-400 years. To visit History Grove is to start to understand the many layers of story in Valles Caldera.

Valles Caldera National Preserve

"Valles Caldera - Setting the Scene" by Melissa Fu
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What you have to understand is that we’re sitting in the middle of a volcano. Not an active one, mind you; we won’t be fleeing ash clouds and lava flow without warning. But not an extinct one, either. So don’t get too complacent. This volcano is dormant. It’s only sleeping. Activity is still very much possible.

Valles Caldera National Preserve

"A Stewardship of Storytelling" by Melissa Fu
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Ahead of my residency at Valles Caldera, I thought a lot about the fact that the reason I’m able to be here is that this land is now no longer privately owned. Like all of the properties under the aegis of the National Park Service, it is public land. We, the public, own the land in the sense that is it no longer in the hands of private individuals. But what does this kind of ownership mean? What is our relationship, as private individuals, to public lands?

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.

You Otter be Kidding Me, Sea Otters in Point Reyes? Research Uses New Predator-Prey Model to See if it Could Work
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Recently, a team of scientists chose southern sea otters to test if predator-prey population dynamics modeling could help conservation planners figure out where predator reintroductions could work. The team published their results in June. They found that two estuaries in Point Reyes National Seashore could probably feed lots of cute (or not) whimsical water weasels one day!

NPS Geodiversity Atlas—Appalachian National Scenic Trail, CT, GA, MA, MD, ME, NC, NH, NJ, NY, PA, TN, VA, VT, and WV
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Each park-specific page in the NPS Geodiversity Atlas provides basic information on the significant geologic features and processes occurring in the park.

Acadia National Park

Mike Bove
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Mike Bove, of Portland, ME, is participating as a Writer in the Artist-in-Residence program at Acadia National Park in 2024.