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The White House and President's Park

1979 March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights
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Participants in the first National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights marched across E Street in front of the South Lawn of the White House on October 14, 1979. The 1979 march is seen as the birth of a national movement for LGB rights that helped small, local organizations unite, know that they were not alone, and bring their issues to a national stage showcasing their collective power.

Murphy Wagon Replica
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The Murphy Wagon was used first by traders on the Santa Fe Trail. Later, emigrants adapted the Murphy wagon to haul their belongings to Oregon and California.

Indiana Dunes National Park

Henry Blake Fuller
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Henry Blake Fuller was a key figure in the Chicago Literary Renaissance, renowned for pioneering social realism in American literature. He is noted for being one of the first American novelists to explore homosexual themes. Fuller had a complicated love-hate relationship with Chicago. He frequently found solace at Indiana Dunes, which served as a retreat from urban life and a source for inspiration.

Willa Cather
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Born December 7, 1873, in Virginia, Willela Sibert Cather grew up on the dusty plains of Red Cloud, Nebraska. Her life took her across the country, and she would become one of the premiere American authors of the 1900s.

Katharine Lee Bates
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Katharine Lee Bates was a professor and writer best remembered as the author of the lyrics to the song “America the Beautiful.” She shared a home for almost three decades with her companion, fellow academic and social reformer Katharine Coman.

Places of Katharine Lee Bates and “America the Beautiful”
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The opening lines of “America the Beautiful” first struck Katharine Lee Bates atop Pikes Peak in the Rocky Mountains. During the summer of 1893, she embarked on a journey across the United States. Originally written as a poem, many of the lines in Bates’ ode to the American landscape refer to geographical features she encountered during her travels.

Rebecca Winters
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Rebecca Winters was emigrating to Utah with her family in 1852 when she contracted Cholera and died within sight of Scotts Bluff. Her grave site was marked with a metal wagon wheel rim that was engraved “Rebecca Winters, Age 50.”

Scotts Bluff National Monument

Prairie View Trail
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The West Trailhead of Scotts Bluff National Monument's Prairie View Trail. This trail is open to bicyclists and hikers and connects to the City of Gering's Monument Valley Pathway.

Scotts Bluff National Monument

Saddle Rock Trail
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The Saddle Rock Trail is the most popular hiking trail at Scotts Bluff National Monument. The trail leads 1.6 miles from the Scotts Bluff National Monument Visitor Center to the summit of Scotts Bluff. It is a 435 foot ascent featuring some of the best views in the state of Nebraska.

Scotts Bluff National Monument

The South Overlook Trail
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Scotts Bluff National Monument

The North Overlook Trail
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This is the trailhead for the 1/2 mile long North Overlook Trail. This trail features wonderful views of the North Platte River, the badlands, and the cities of Gering and Scottsbluff.

George Rogers Clark National Historical Park

Joseph Bowman
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Major Joseph Bowman, an officer under George Rogers Clark in the campaign to take British Controlled forts in Kaskaskia, Cahokia and Vincennes during the American Revolution.

Blackland Prairie section Northern Terminus Trailhead, Milepost 266
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This trailhead is located just across the Parkway from the Natchez Trace Parkway Visitor Center. Hikers can travel six miles along the outskirts of Tupelo (12 miles roundtrip). You can make the walk as long or as short as you would like on this out and back trail. This section of Scenic Trail is open to hikers only and requires walking on the Parkway for road and creek crossings.

Natchez Trace Parkway

Beech Springs Bicycle Camp (Parkway VC), Milepost 266
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Take the closed trail across the street from the parking area for the Natchez Trace National Scenic Trail. Potable water is not available, but is available at the Parkway Visitor Center a short distance away.

Atchafalaya National Heritage Area
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Atchafalaya swamp with trees and fog.

Lewis & Clark National Historic Trail

George Rogers Clark Home Site
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The George Rogers Clark Home Site is a 7-acre tract of land that makes up part of the Falls of the Ohio State Park. George Rogers Clark, a revolutionary war general, the town’s founder, and William Clark’s older brother, built his home here in 1803 as a place to spend his retirement years.

“Cracking the code” on mercury bioaccumulation
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Read the abstract and get the link to a published paper on a model to predict mercury risk park waterbodies: Kotalik, C.J. et al. 2025. Ecosystem drivers of freshwater mercury bioaccumulation are context-dependent: insights from continental-scale modeling. Environmental Science & Technology. DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.4c07280

Lewis & Clark National Historic Trail

Big Bend of the Missouri
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The Prairie Pothole environment is changing due to new climate conditions.

Acadia National Park

View From the Aerie: Peregrine Falcon Watch in 2024
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Check back for weekly updates on the development of peregrine falcon chicks nesting in cliffs above the Precipice Trailhead parking area in Acadia National Park, Maine.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Alum Cave Bluffs
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A dramatic rocky overhang along Alum Cave Trail.