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Grand Portage National Monument
Historic Garden at Grand Portage
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The Grand Portage historic kitchen garden is located inside the palisade behind the kitchen. The North West Company operated its post here from 1778 to 1803. Many vegetable varieties grown in the garden now date back to the 1700s and early 1800s. Vegetable varieties from 200 years ago and earlier are still available today because Native American and early settler families saved seeds from their harvests to plant in the following year. The seeds saved were handed down.
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Less than 4% of the tallgrass prairie that once covered 170 million acres of North America remains today. Park managers use fire and grazing treatments to maintain tallgrass prairie ecosystems at Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve. The Heartland Inventory and Monitoring Network monitors these park prairies to evaluate the effectiveness of management treatments and help parks protect these vanishing ecosystems.
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At Lewis and Clark National Historical Park, staff are developing a plan that will help restore the park’s degraded prairies, wetlands, dunes, and coastal forests. To better tailor this ongoing restoration effort, they needed to know more about the species that reside in the park, including bryophytes and lichens.
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At San Juan Island National Historical Park, a recent species inventory is giving park managers the information they need to help safeguard rare and special plants. Conservation of rare species helps maintain their genetic diversity as well as preserving the unique ecological and cultural functions they serve.
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You can be a Heartland Inventory and Monitoring Network Junior Scientist! Explore what it is like to be a scientist that monitors plants, animals, and their habitats national parks. You will explore the 15 parks of the Heartland Network, make observations, identify animals and plants, and learn why scientists use scientific names for organisms. Visit a Heartland Network Park to complete the activities in the booklet or download the booklet here.
Sitka National Historical Park
Building a Colony Exhibit
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Grand Canyon National Park
Backcountry Information Center
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The Backcountry Info Center is open daily from 8 am–noon; and 1 pm–5 pm, and provides information, permits, and trip planning assistance about day and overnight hikes into the canyon. The building is located in the village by Parking Lot D, and across the railroad tracks from Maswik Lodge. Park in Lot D, then take the free, early morning Hikers' Express bus from Backcountry Info Center to South Kaibab Trailhead.
Grand Canyon National Park
Bright Angel Trail
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Bright Angel Trail lets hikers walk in the footsteps of the canyon's Indigenous Peoples, miners, and early tourists, as they descend into the canyon's depths. Offering big views, morning and afternoon shade, resthouses, vault toilets, and water stations during the summer. As of April 13, 2025, the water is ON at 1.5- and 3-mile resthouses and Havasupai Gardens. Portions of Bright Angel Trail are closed for waterline construction, Visit the link for a list of trail closures.
Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park
Eruption Viewing near Keanakākoʻi Overlook
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Eruption viewing from the overlooks near Keanakākoʻi offers close-up views but requires planning. Parking is extremely limited between 5 p.m. and 9 p.m., so it's best to visit outside these hours. Have a Plan B if parking is full. The site requires a 2-mile round-trip hike (about 1 hour) from Devastation parking area. Additional parking at Puʻupuaʻi Overlook an additional 0.5 miles.
Grand Canyon National Park
North Kaibab Trail
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North Kaibab Trail is the least visited and most difficult of the major inner canyon corridor trails. It is challenging for day hikers as well as rim-to-rim hikers. Water at the North Kaibab TRAILHEAD water has been shut off for the winter and is expected to be turned back on May 15, when the roads open. Always carry a way to filter or treat creek water, in the event the water stations at Manzanita and Cottonwood Campground are not working.
Fort Vancouver National Historic Site
Accessibility Matters: Building a Barracks for Everyone
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When the NPS took ownership of Vancouver Barracks in 2012, it was essential to plan for renovations and uses that allowed every visitor to experience the site.
Fort Vancouver National Historic Site
Developing the Master Plan
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The Post-to-Park transfer of the East and South Barracks to the National Park Service didn’t take place overnight – planning began over a decade earlier with thorough public involvement and community input. In 2012, Fort Vancouver National Historic Site released its Draft Master Plan for the site, with the goal of establishing a vision for public use and providing guidance for park managers for the next 20 years.
Fort Vancouver National Historic Site
Partnerships for a Public Service Campus
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The goal of Fort Vancouver National Historic Site’s 2012 Master Plan is to create a public service campus for the local community and for visitors. To accomplish this, Fort Vancouver NHS partnered with local agencies and organizations to find creative ways to adapt and reuse barracks buildings.
Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area
Paramount Ranch
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The diversity of the landscape made the Santa Monica Mountains an ideal backdrop for the film industry. Paramount Ranch’s variety of scenic qualities, landscapes, plant communities, and natural fea-tures offered a myriad of scenery available to represent outdoor landscapes nearly anywhere in the world
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Invasive exotic plants are one of the most significant threats to natural resources in the national parks today. To provide early warning of weed invasions, the Northern Colorado Plateau Network monitors target plants in park areas where they are likely to first establish: along roads, trails, and waterways. Find out what we've learned at Curecanti National Recreation Area.
Manhattan Project National Historical Park
Manhattan Project Scientists: Ernest Orlando Lawrence
- Type: Person
Ernest Lawrence was the inventor of the cyclotron, one of the most important contributions to the success of the Manhattan Project. Learn more about this Nobel Prize-winning physicist at the link.
Grand Portage National Monument
Fingerweaving
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Fingerweaving is the art of making material with the fingers instead of a loom. Prior to European contact Indigenous peoples in North America wove and twined with plants and animal fibers for a multitude of purposes. We know the beautiful, dense, warp-faced arrow and lightning motif sashes created by changing the weft that we associate with the Fur Trade are uniquely tied to North America.
Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site
Park Store and Information
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The Visitor Center/Park Store is open Thursday - Sunday (4 days per week) from 10am to 4pm, inside the Sandburg Home. The online park store is open everyday! The Park Store and visitor information area is a great place to start your visit! You can find information to plan your visit, get a passport stamp, participate in the Jr Ranger or BARK Ranger programs, and get a schedule of upcoming events. The park store has a wide range of Sandburg books, media, and other items.
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park
Series: The Port Royal Experiment
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In the fall of 1861 after the Battle of Port Royal, the US military came ashore around Beaufort and found thousands of now formerly enslaved people in control of the region. The military had no real plan yet for what to do with these people or even their legal status. Newly freed Black South Carolinians were active participants. They demanded access to programs to support labor reforms, land redistribution, quality education, and military service.
Nicodemus National Historic Site
Nicodemus Newsletter March 2025
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This is the March 2025 edition of Nicodemus National Historic Site's newsletter, highlighting 2024 accomplishments and events and sharing plans for 2025.