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Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument
Make Your Own Mississippi Mud Pie
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Children in Mississippi have made "mud pies" for many generations. Now is your chance to make your very own, following this recipe.
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A deadly new form of Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease (RHDV2) is spreading worldwide and has been found in dead rabbits and hares near Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve (NPP). In 2022, the Inventory and Monitoring Division funded a survey on American pika (Ochotona princeps) in the park to better understand where pikas occur and where they might be exposed to RHDV2.
Valles Caldera National Preserve
Cerros del Abrigo
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A popular area for elk hunters today and a frequented hiking area, Cerros del Abrigo was also the site of an important hunting camp for the Hemish people and positive spiritual energy. Keep an eye out for elk and black bear and listen for the distinctive cry of the pika.
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National parks, such as Yellowstone National Park (YNP), are ecologically and socially important resources conservatively valued at $92 billion (Haefele et al. 2016). To properly protect and conserve these places, decision makers require reliable information to track and understand the manifestations of environmental change...
Craters Of The Moon National Monument & Preserve
Pikas at Craters of the Moon
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The high desert is the last place you'd expect to find a cold-loving animal like the pika.
Crater Lake National Park
Crater Lake Natural History Association Park Store
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The mission of Crater Lake Natural History Association (CLNHA) is to be an active partner with the National Park Service to inspire public understanding and foster preservation of natural and cultural resources at Crater Lake National Park. CLNHA is a 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt organization 93-0519716 with memberships, an online shop, and 2 park stores where they sell park and education related items, and provide information, enhancing the visitors experience in the park.
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Knowing which key natural resources are found in the national parks, and whether they're stable or changing, helps decisionmakers make sound choices. The Northern Colorado Plateau Network is building that knowledge. After more than ten years of monitoring, we've learned a lot about park ecosystems, how they're changing, and what they may look like in the days to come. Find out what we’ve learned and how it’s being used to help managers plan for the future.
Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks
Amphitheater Point
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Located on the Generals Highway between Hospital Rock Picnic Area and the Giant Forest Museum, this viewpoint offers stunning views of Moro Rock and the steep elevation change from the foothills to granite peaks. The foothills are an often overlooked area of the park, but they are a vital and diverse landscape. During the cooler months, deer and bears often move downhill to find food. Reptiles, birds, and small mammals live there year round. It is not uncommon to spot foxes i
Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks
Panoramic Point Overlook
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This overlook is located a short driving distance from the Kings Canyon Visitor Center. Look outward from Panoramic Point across hundreds of miles of Kings Canyon National Park and neighboring national forest lands. Below lies Hume Lake, a small historic lake in Sequoia National Forest that was created in 1908 using a rare multiple-arch dam.
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Glacier's Citizen Science Program hosted its annual Volunteer Day in August 2021. Participants took to the talus slopes and searched for pika poop, or scat. The collected scat will be analyzed for its DNA to see how pika's are related to one another. This information helps researchers determine how pika populations are connected and what corridors are critical to their success.
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In response to climate change, park managers are having to rethink how they plan for the future. Climate Smart Conservation is a process that can help managers achieve goals in the face of coming changes. Under this framework, scientists and managers use their collective knowledge to anticipate problems and be proactive, rather than reactive.
Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park
Harriet Pullen
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Arriving in Skagway with almost no money, Harriet Pullen baked pies, cooked for stampeders, and ran a horse team. Eventually she owned a dairy farm and the fanciest hotel in town, the Pullen House.
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Baseline values of physiological stress can be incorporated into monitoring plans for pikas, providing park managers with additional information related to the vulnerability of this climate-sensitive model species that occurs within a large number of western parks.
Jimmy Carter National Historical Park
The Graham Store
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John Graham, a well-respected African American man, ran a thriving store from this location in the 1920s. His wife baked pies and all of the children in the area knew when they came out of the oven. Later this building served as a restaurant.
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Collared pikas are small mammals within the same order as rabbits and hares, and they resemble small rabbits with very short ears and small limbs. Adapted to thrive at high elevations in Alaska, their habitat is at risk -- climate change may drastically change the fragile environment in which they live.
Mount Rainier National Park
American Pika at Mount Rainier National Park: Keeping an eye on one of Mount Rainier's most climate sensitive species
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Mount Rainier National Park monitors American pika, one of the park's most climate sensitive species. Since 2007, with additional effort from dedicated volunteers and seasonal park staff, 900 individual pika sites have been identified.
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Pi'ilanihale Heiau (also known as Hale O Pi' Ilani Heiau) is located in Kahanu Garden, a National Tropical Botanical Park near the town of Hana on the Island of Maui. The heiau (place of worship) is the largest one on the Island of Maui and is one of the most important archeological sites in the Hawaiian Islands.
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Pikas live in the expansive lava flows of Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve—an atypical habitat in a harsh environment. Here we have a spectacular opportunity to learn more about how this species may respond to climate change over time.
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The National Park Service stewards pika populations in more than a dozen parks and seeks to understand the vulnerability of pikas and other mountain species to climate change. Pikas in Peril, funded in 2010, was a collaborative research program directed by scientists from the National Park Service, Oregon State University, University of Idaho, and University of Colorado-Boulder.
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Hoary marmots and American pikas are locally declining in response to climate driven changes in moisture, snowpack duration, warming temperatures, and cold exposure.