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Funding Granted for Much-needed Monarch Conservation Efforts in Marin County

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Working within the structure of the One Tamalpais Collaborative, the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy received $400,000 in funding through the California Wildlife Conservation Board’s pollinator rescue program to invest in protection of monarch butterflies in Marin County.

We Found Passion and Purpose in New Pollinator Studies

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Pollinators are in danger, and national parks want to help. Two early-career scientists piloted research projects to find out how they could.

Monarch Butterfly - Featured Creature

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Curious about the monarch butterfly in southern Oregon and northern California? Explore its natural history in this edition of our quarterly “Featured Creature,” brought to you by the Klamath Inventory and Monitoring Network.

Gender and Sexuality in Native America: Pueblo of Acoma, NM

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In what is now the mesa-top Pueblo of Acoma, men with effeminate physical attributes or personal tendencies were known by many names including mujerado, qo-qoy-mo, and kokwina. They dressed and lived as women, had relationships with men, and fulfilled women's roles in the community. Much like today's queer culture, mujerados of Acoma appear to have experienced varied levels of cultural acceptance.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Witness a Migration Marvel this Fall

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Autumn is a time of transition. As hot summer afternoons give way to crisp fall days, all manner of winged species pass through the Smokies on their way south for the winter.

Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site

Charles Bent

Type: Person

Charles Bent, alongside his partner, Ceran St. Vrain, and younger brother, William Bent, established the Bent, St. Vrain, and Company along the Santa Fe Trail in 1833. This adobe-constructed trading post beside the Arkansas River in southeastern Colorado was the first outpost between St. Louis, MO and Santa Fe, NM in its day. Charles and William's close association with Cheyenne and Arapaho nations enabled the company to prosper as a result of the buffalo robe trade.

I Didn't Know That!: Planting for Pollinators

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It's that time of year again... as you plan this year's gardens save a plot for native plants! Pollinators are responsible for 1 out of 3 bites we eat each day and they need your help. Find out how you can help pollinators in your garden and beyond.

Yellowstone National Park

Cistern Spring

Type: Place

Indiana Dunes National Park

Marie LeFevere Bailly

Type: Person

Part Odawa and part French, the highly respected and traditionally skilled Marie “Mo-nee” Bailly lived through rapidly changing times; she experienced shifting control over the Northwest Territory and the detrimental effects of manifest destiny on Indigenous American peoples. She resolutely oversaw the family and homestead on the Little Calumet River for more than 30 years after the death of her husband, raising their children and grandchildren in an ever-foreign world.

Blue Ridge Parkway

Monarch Migration Wayside

Type: Place

Did you know that monarch butterflies migrate every year? Some travel as far as Mexico to spend the winter in warmer climes! Learn about their incredible journey from this wayside exhibit, perfectly placed on the Parkway in one of the spots the butterflies regularly use to pass through the mountains.

Harvey's Knob Overlook

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Harvey’s Knob offers exceptional views to the Great Valley of Virginia far below. Overlooks with expansive views make excellent locations to view migrating birds and monarch butterflies in the fall.

Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks

Hotel Creek Trailhead

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The 6.9 mile (11.1 KM) loop Hotel Creek Trail has a steep incline. The trail was iburned over during the 2015 Rough Fire but is recovering. It climbs through a ponderosa pine forest to views of Monarch Divide and other peaks. Parking is limited at the trailhead. Alternative parking is available at Cedar Grove Lodge, which adds 0.5 miles (0.8 km) to the trip.

Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks

Brigadier General Charles Young Tree

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In the fall of 1903, the Buffalo Soldiers who oversaw these parks that year held an end-of-season picnic. A local resident who attended, Phil Winser, wrote the following about Captain Charles Young, the leader of this contingent and the first African American superintendent of any national park: "They wanted to name a tree for our captain but he refused, saying they could do so if they felt the same way, twenty years hence..." He chose instead to name a sequoia for educator B

Pony Express National Historic Trail

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It is hard to believe that young men once rode horses to carry mail from Missouri to California in the unprecedented time of only 10 days. This relay system along the Pony Express National Historic Trail in eight states was the most direct and practical means of east-west communications before the telegraph. The trail traverses 8 states: CA, UT, CO, NV, WY, NE, KS, & MO. It is administered by the National Trails Office Regions 6|7|8 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

National Frontier Trails Museum

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The historic trails passed through this area in the field that is directly across from the National Frontier Trails Museum. Evidence of the trails can still be seen in the field in the form of swales, which marks the exact route used by emigrants as they traveled westward. The museum is currently temporarily located at 416 W. Maple Ave., Independence, MO 64050.

Padre Island National Seashore

Stop 6: Elegant Gayfeather (Liatris elegans)

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This is one of the island’s most attractive and showy species. It also provides an important nectar source for butterflies and day flying moths. It was used by Native Americans internally and externally for the treatment of rheumatism. Confederate surgeons utilized other Liatris species in the treatments of sore throats, pain, coughs, colds, colic, and even snake bites. These other Liatris species were referred to as Button snakeroot and Rattlesnake’s master during the 1800s.

Yellowstone National Park

Back Basin

Type: Place

Acadia National Park

Caleb Worcester

Type: Article

Caleb Worcester, of Kansas City, MO, is participating as an At-Large Artist in the Artist-in-Residence program at Acadia National Park in 2024.

Golden Gate National Recreation Area

Battery Yates

Type: Place

Compared to other batteries in the region, Battery Yates held relatively small, 3-inch diameter rapid fire rifles, used to protect the bay entrance. In the event of a foreign attack, its guns could fire up to 30 shots per minute at fast moving enemy torpedo boats. During World War II, the guns protected an anti-submarine net that spanned the entrance to the bay.

Oregon National Historic Trail

Auto Tour Route Interpretive Guides: Oregon Trail

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Download one of these booklets and begin your state by state trail adventure! The Auto Tour Route (ATR) guides provide an overview of local trail history while giving driving directions to suggested points of interest along the trail. There are auto tour route guides available for the trail across MO, KS, NE, CO, ID, WY, WA, & OR.

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