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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.
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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.
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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.
Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site
Charles Bent
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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.
Indiana Dunes National Park
Marie LeFevere Bailly
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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
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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.
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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.
Pony Express National Historic Trail
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.
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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.
Acadia National Park
Caleb Worcester
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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
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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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Follow along the same path traveled by thousands of homesteaders, prospectors, and entrepreneurs. The Missouri River carried them to the Upper Independence landing two miles north of here. With their wagons loaded, they headed to town in Independence for final preparations. These the first miles of the overland journey to California, Oregon, and Santa Fe.
Ice Age Floods National Geologic Trail
Glacial Dam at Green Monarch Ridge View Point
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View the Green Monarch Ridge and the Purcell Trench from a large pullout on Idaho State Route 200, about one mile (1.6 km) west of Hope, Idaho and 15 miles (24 km) east of Sandpoint, Idaho.
Acadia National Park
Milkweed and Monarchs
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Restoring native plants supports insects, birds, and other animals.
Nicodemus National Historic Site
Historic Baseball Diamond
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Lewis & Clark National Historic Trail
Blackbird Hill, Nebraska
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When Meriwether Lewis and William Clark passed here, they paid their respects at the burial site of Omaha leader Wazhiⁿga’ sabe (Blackbird).
Ice Age Floods National Geologic Trail
Green Monarch Ridge
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The Purcell Trench Ice Lobe originated in Canada and flowed south into Idaho, guided by the structural control of the Purcell Trench. Following the path of least resistance into the basin now occupied by Lake Pend Oreille, it was impeded by the Green Monarch Ridge forming an ice dam of the Clark Fork River and creating glacial Lake Missoula.
Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument
Jackie Robinson
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Jackie Robinson is most famous for being the first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era. The son of sharecroppers, he was born in 1919. During World War II, Robinson served with the all-Black 761st Tank Battalion and the 758th Tank Battalion. He was honorably discharged in 1944. He died on October 24, 1972, at the age of 53.