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Upper Delaware Scenic & Recreational River
Skinners Falls River Access
- Type: Place
The Skinners Falls River Access is a public river access for the Delaware River located near Milanville, PA adjacent to the Skinners Falls Bridge. It is owned by the New York Department of Environmental Conservation. This is a canoe/kayak access only. Please note the Skinners Falls Bridge is closed to all traffic at this time.
Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument
The Curious Case of the Old Dog in the Sand
- Type: Article
The discovery of a large fossil canid jawbone in Idaho gives clues to the region’s diverse, verdant past.
Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument
How “Hot” Radioactive Fossils Tested One Park’s Safety Tech
- Type: Article
Some fossil bones emit huge amounts of radon, a cancer-causing gas, so staying safe when storing or studying them is a real challenge. Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument found ways to overcome the problem through upgraded safety technology, but its story is a cautionary one.
Upper Delaware Scenic & Recreational River
Damascus River Access
- Type: Place
The Damascus River Access is a public river access for the Delaware River located in Damascus, PA adjacent to the Cochecton-Damascus Bridge. It is owned by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission. This access is open for canoes, kayaks, and other non-motorized boats.
Upper Delaware Scenic & Recreational River
Darbytown River Access
- Type: Place
The Darbytown River Access is a public river access for the Delaware River located near Narrowsburg, NY across the river in Darbytown, PA. It is owned by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission. This access is open for canoes, kayaks, and other non-motorized boats. Motorized boats can be launched at this access.
Upper Delaware Scenic & Recreational River
Zane Grey (Lackawaxen) River Access
- Type: Place
The Zane Grey River Access, also known as the Lackawaxen River Access, is a public river access for the Delaware River located in Lackawaxen, PA. It is owned by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission. Motorized boats can be launched at this access.
Upper Delaware Scenic & Recreational River
Highland River Access
- Type: Place
The Highland River Access is a public river access for the Delaware River located in Minisink Ford, in between Lackawaxen, PA and Barryville, NY. It is owned by the New York Department of Environmental Conservation. This is a canoe/kayak access only.
Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument
Aliante Parkway Kiosk
- Type: Place
This interpretive kiosk is located at N. Aliante Pkwy & W. Moonlight Falls Ave. The kiosk describes the history of scientific research at Tule Springs, safety tips, park regulations, and a map of the monument. This area features relatively flat terrain, creosote desert scrub habitat, and views of the Las Vegas and Sheep ranges.
- Type: Article
The 2025 National Fossil Day Artwork features a 29-million-year-old Oligocene assemblage of plants and animals from the Turtle Cove Member of the John Day Formation, inspired by new and old discoveries made at John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, Oregon.
Independence National Historical Park
PA Gradual Abolition of Slavery Act - March 1, 1780
- Type: Article
In 1780 the Pennsylvania Assembly passed the Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery into law. It was the first of several legislative enactments to abolish slavery in the states between 1780 and 1804. The act stated, “every Negro and Mulatto child born within the state after the passing of the Act would be free upon reaching age twenty-eight.”
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park
How Freedom Came to Big Pa
- Type: Article
“How Freedom Came to Big Pa” was published in the April 1916 issue of The Southern Workman and was written by Grace House, a principal of the Penn School. The essay shares Prince Polite's account of attending the Emancipation Day Celebration at Camp Saxton with his grandfather, "Big Pa", on January 1, 1863.
- Type: Article
Buried in Glacier's melting ice are archeological and paleontological materials encased hundreds, or even thousands of years ago. A recent five-year collaborative research project investigated 46 ice patches in the park, taking core samples, documenting melting, and collecting remains of ancient plants and animals, including bison.
Upper Delaware Scenic & Recreational River
Buckingham River Access
- Type: Place
The Buckingham River Access is a public river access for the Delaware River located near Equinunk, PA. It is owned by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission. This access is open for canoes, kayaks, and other non-motorized boats.
- Type: Article
National parks contain a rich diversity of invertebrate fossils. Some groups, particularly mollusks, are present in many national parks, but others are much more rare. Most invertebrate fossils in national parks are of marine organisms, although some parks have freshwater mollusks, and a few have fossils of terrestrial arthropods, mostly insects.
Geologic Resources Division
Fossil Graptolites
- Type: Article
Graptolites are important index fossils for the early Paleozoic. They look like pencil marks on rock faces but are the remains of tiny colonial animals. Graptolite fossils are known from a handful of national parks.
Geologic Resources Division
Fossil Cnidarians - Corals, Jellyfish, and Sea Anemones
- Type: Article
Fossils of bryozoans (“moss animals”) that are typically found as part of marine assemblages in many national parks. These filter-feeding colonial animals were individually microscopic so even their colonies, usually shaped like branching twigs or net-like and lacy forms, themselves are quite small.
Geologic Resources Division
Fossil Mollusks
- Type: Article
Most mollusks are of either bivalves, cephalopods, or gastropods. Cephalopods including nautiloids and ammonites were exclusively marine, bivalves inhabited both marine and freshwater environments, and gastropods lived in both aquatic and terrestrial environment. Overall, mollusks are the most common type of fossils found in national parks.
Geologic Resources Division
Fossil Echinoderms – Crinoids, Blastoids, and Others
- Type: Article
Crinoids are the most common echinoderm fossils in national parks, found mostly in Paleozoic rocks. Echinoderms have 5-sided symmetry and have skeletons composed of numerous small pieces, which break apart after death. Thus, most echinoderm fossils are only small bits of the larger organism.
Geologic Resources Division
Fossil Bryozoans
- Type: Article
Fossils of bryozoans (“moss animals”) that are typically found as part of marine assemblages in many national parks. These filter-feeding colonial animals were individually microscopic so even their colonies, usually shaped like branching twigs or net-like and lacy forms, themselves are quite small.
Geologic Resources Division
Fossil Brachiopods
- Type: Article
Brachiopods are one of the most common marine invertebrate fossils found in Paleozoic rocks in national parks. They were a dominant group of marine organisms during the Paleozoic, filling many of the ecological niches in Paleozoic oceans that bivalves have occupied since the end of Permian extinction, when most brachiopods became extinct.