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As the San Francisco Bay Area Network coho and steelhead monitoring crew wraps up the 2024-2025 spawner season, we are looking back at one of the busiest winters since the beginning of this monitoring program! We observed increased coho spawning in all three creeks we monitor—Olema, Pine Gulch, and Redwood Creeks. Olema took the cake with the strongest cohort of all.
Grand Teton National Park
Jenny Lake Plaza
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Dive deeper into the history of Grand Teton National Park. Interpretive signs introduce topics like the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, grizzly bear research, geologic forces and features, glaciers, and the Hayden Survey. A large bronze tactile relief map will help orient you in relation to where you are in the park. Different peaks, canyons, lakes, falls, and other park features are labeled throughout the map.
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Greenwich Village Historic District’s reputation for dynamism can be attributed to its history of emerging artists and writers as well as the political unrest and activism of its inhabitants. With the rise of the counterculture movement during the 1960s, Greenwich Village’s Washington Square Park became a hub for writers and musicians. In 1969, LGB residents of Greenwich Village pushed back against police harassment at the Stonewall Inn.
Point Reyes National Seashore
Researchers Complete First Season of Point Reyes Mountain Beaver Habitat Surveys
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The Point Reyes mountain beaver—a primitive rodent that isn’t a beaver—is a sort of mythical creature at Point Reyes National Seashore. Almost no one has seen one in-person with their own eyes. Not even National Park Service Wildlife Biologists Taylor Ellis and Matt Lau, who just completed their first season of surveys as a part of a 2-year mountain beaver habitat modeling project in collaboration with UC Berkeley. Still, the survey season was a great success.
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Fort Des Moines is a military installation in Des Moines, Iowa. During World War I, the fort served as the first and only training site for African American officers. During World War II, Fort Des Moines was the first training site for the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) and the Women’s Army Corps (WAC), and the only training site for WAC and WAAC officers.
The White House and President's Park
Zero Milestone
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This four-foot-high shaft of pink granite stands on the north and south meridian of the District of Columbia. It is symbolically the official starting point for measurement of highway distances from Washington, DC. On July 7, 1919, the first transcontinental military motor convoy, destined for San Francisco, California, started from this spot.
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Fort Necessity National Battlefield park staff aimed to find out if Appalachian cottontail inhabited the park, so they collaborated with the Inventory and Monitoring Division to survey for their scat.
Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park
Employee Surveys Give Clues to Reducing Tick-Borne Disease
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Two studies show the value of standardized procedures, in-person training, and site-specific information.
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Between 1975 and 1977, the building was occupied by the Cinema Follies, an adult film theater that catered to gay men. The Cinema Follies was frequently targeted by the Metropolitan Police Department during this short period. This building was recorded by the Historic American Buildings Survey.
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Phase One, a women’s bar, opened here in 1970. The bar was one of the few women-centric establishments within the District’s gay and lesbian nightlife scene. When it closed in January 2016, Phase One had earned the distinction of being one of the oldest continuously-operating women’s bars in the United States. Phase One was surveyed by the Historic American Buildings Survey.
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In 1921, Otero-Warren ran for federal office, campaigning to be the Republican Party nominee for New Mexico to the US House of Representatives. She won the nomination, but lost the election by less than nine percent. She remained politically and socially active, and served as the Chairman of New Mexico’s Board of Health; an executive board member of the American Red Cross; and director of an adult literacy program in New Mexico for the Works Projects Administration.
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When Jane Addams penned Twenty Years at Hull House: With Autobiographical Notes, she presented her life story as inextricably tied to her work in running a settlement house. Addams was born into an affluent family in Illinois, but comfort and leisure did not suit her. After spending much of her early life searching for outlets for progressive work, Addams became a reformer.
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Dr. Clyde Wahrhaftig was a geologist, LGBTQ activist, environmentalist, and scientist who studied the geology of Golden Gate National Recreation Area and Yosemite National Park.
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William Henry Jackson was a painter and photographer known for his images of the American West. His experience on the Oregon Trail as a bullwhacker led him to create some of the most detailed paintings of pioneer trail life. He participated in the Hayden Geological Survey of 1871, which led to the creation of Yellowstone National Park.
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Johnston was the first woman to professionally photograph Mammoth Cave, she went on to photo-document life, blue collar workers and presidents alike.
Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site
Esther Lape
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Esther Lape was well known as a journalist, researcher, and publicist. She was also associated with the Women's Trade Union League and one of the founders of the League of Women Voters. Her life-partner was the scholar and lawyer, Elizabeth Read, who was Eleanor Roosevelt’s personal attorney and financial advisor.
Golden Gate National Recreation Area
Scientists Use Sediment Cores to Look Into the Past at Rodeo Lagoon
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Have you ever wondered what an environment looked like in the past? Or how much human-caused change has altered an area? So have scientists at Golden Gate National Recreation Area and the US Geological Survey! Sediment cores can act like windows into the past, containing information like what animals lived there and what their surroundings were like. In fall 2020, scientists collected about 21 four-inch sediment cores from throughout Rodeo Lagoon.
Boston National Historical Park
Crispus Attucks
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As the first victim of the Boston Massacre, Crispus Attucks became a symbol of the Black freedom struggle in the United States.
Denali National Park & Preserve
Soil Survey and Ecological Classification in Denali
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Did you know that soil will have different characteristics depending on where you are in Denali? For six summers, scientists completed a soil survey that mapped soils across the park. They also recorded plant species and photographed the landscape, the plant community, and the soil horizons as revealed in a soil pit. Learn more about what they found.
Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park
Chatham Laundry
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The Chatham laundry is one of the original structures at Chatham, dating to the 1770s. Enslaved women labored and likely lived in this building. In the 1900s the laundry was converted to a guest house, then an office. Today, it is an office for park staff.