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Capitol Reef National Park

Scenic Drive Stop 1

• Type: Place

Capitol Reef’s sedimentary rock layers tell us stories from Earth’s ancient past.

Reconstruction Era National Historical Park

The Legacy of the Port Royal Experiment

• Type: Article

The Port Royal Experiment was not intended to be a re-envisioning of America, but it evolved as a model for how to transition away from slavery during Reconstruction. Historian Willie Lee Rose termed it a “Rehearsal for Reconstruction.”

The Garter Snake Ssscoop

• Type: Article

The surprising story about Garter Snakes, one of the most common snakes in the United States. Small and non-venomous, to deter predators they release a musky scent.

Teaching Suffrage: She's Good Enough

• Type: Article

How can popular culture be used to advocate for change? In this learning activity for sixth-eighth grade, students examine a suffrage illustration modeled on a popular cartoon circulated during Teddy Roosevelt's re-election campaign. They will analyze the use of cultural touchstones to change public perception about an issue and evaluate when they have been influenced by popular culture.

Dr. Anna Julia Cooper (1859-1964) and "A Voice from the South"

• Type: Article

Born into slavery in 1859, Cooper would become a distinguished author, activist, educator, and scholar. She lived a life that redefined society’s limitations and opportunities for Black women. Despite her enduring legacy, she has yet to become a household name. We honor Dr. Anna Julia Cooper as an ancestor for her tireless work to re-center and uplift the voices of Black women in a pursuit of a more just society for everyone.

Martin Van Buren National Historic Site

Farmhands and Fishing

• Type: Place

Repeat fires tip the scale on near-surface permafrost in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve

• Type: Article

In July 2024, fire ecologists re-visited a study area an in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park & Preserve that burned twice in rapid series. The 2009 Chakina Fire burned ~ 56,000 acres in the Chitina River Valley. A mere seven years later, a third of the Chakina fire area reburned in the 2016 Steamboat Fire.

Grand Portage National Monument

Anishinaabe Oodena (Ojibwe Village) Re-creation

• Type: Place

Fur traders constructed their posts near Native villages for survival and convenience. This re-creation of a small village at the NWCo Depot exemplifies the economic partnership between the Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) and the Northwest Company.

Promoting post-fire recovery of western Joshua tree habitat

• Type: Article

The human-caused Geology fire started on June 10, 2023, along the Berdoo Canyon Road, one of Joshua Tree National Park’s designated backcountry routes. The Burned Area Recovery plan promotes recovery of native vegetation, establishing restoration islands within the burned area to promote re-establishment of native perennial vegetation, including Joshua trees.

Blue Ridge Parkway

Mt. Lyn Lowry Overlook

• Type: Place

Located along the southern end of the Blue Ridge Parkway, Mt. Lyn Lowry Overlook provides scenic views of Mt. Lyn Lowry, the Woodfin Cascades, and the 60-foot cross erected in Lyn Lowry’s honor. In 1962, this mountain was re-named for Lowry, a fifteen-year-old who died of leukemia.

Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts

Filene Center

• Type: Place

The Filene Center is the primary performance venue at Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts. This iconic, open-air amphitheater theater includes the covered seating area which can accommodate up to 3,868 persons. The original Filene Center opened in 1971, but was destroyed by a fire in 1982. This structure re-opened for the 1984 performance season.

Anacostia Park

Aquatic Resources Center

• Type: Place

Aquatic Resources Education Center is the host to 20-1,500-gallon aquariums where visitors can have insight of what's beneath the waves of the Anacostia and to learn about the variety of aquatic life that is supported by the river. Well over 40 species of fish, amphibians, reptiles, and invertebrates from the District and the Chesapeake Bay are on display at the facility. The AREC is a multi-use environmental education center located in Anacostia Park, SE run by DOEE.

8 Things You Might Not Know About the Federal Historic Tax Credit

• Type: Article

The Federal Historic Preservation Tax Incentives Program, commonly referred to as the federal Historic Tax Credit (HTC), encourages private sector investment in the rehabilitation and re-use of historic buildings. It creates jobs and is one of the nation's most successful and cost-effective community revitalization programs.

Amphibians, Reptiles, and Birds at Barrett’s Farm

• Type: Article

Barrett’s Farm, in present-day Minute Man National Historical Park, played a significant role in 1775 in the first armed conflict of the American Revolution. Although Barrett’s Farm is known largely for its history, biologists wanted to learn more about the wildlife inhabiting the site. The National Park Service and its partners set out in 2023 to find out what types of amphibians, reptiles, and birds occur at Barrett’s Farm.

Project Profile: Manage Invasive Plants and Re-Seed Degraded Lands to Maintain Healthy Rangelands in Intermountain Region Park Units

• Type: Article

The National Park Service will improve rangeland conditions and climate resilience across parks in Arizona, Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming. This will include rangeland ecosystem assessments, the monitoring of forage availability and vegetation conditions, the restoration of rangeland infrastructure and grazing allotments, and adding staff capacity in parks.

Cenozoic Era

• Type: Article

The Cenozoic Era (66 million years ago [MYA] through today) is the "Age of Mammals." North America’s characteristic landscapes began to develop during the Cenozoic. Birds and mammals rose in prominence after the extinction of giant reptiles. Common Cenozoic fossils include cat-like carnivores and early horses, as well as ice age woolly mammoths.

Project Profile: Remove Invasive Species to Protect Native and At-risk Species in the Colorado River

• Type: Article

The National Park Service will launch a landscape-scale conservation effort that seeks to re-establish control over populations of invasive species in the Colorado River and engage youth and Tribal Conservation Corps in a multi-park approach to ensure climate resilience, restoration, and response. Across parks connected to the Colorado River, the National Park Service will combat rapid changes instilled due to climate change at the following parks...

Pony Express National Historic Trail

See the Pony Express Re-Ride

• Type: Article

As the riders make their way from St. Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California, there are scheduled exchanges were the riders will hand off the mochila and a new rider will continue the delivery. The ride takes place 24 hours a day so some of these happen in the middle of the night! Though the schedule is subject to change, here are the some of the places that you can watch an exchange or see the riders ride by (during daylight hours!)

Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail

Presidio San Agustín del Tucson

• Type: Place

The Presidio San Agustín del Tucson Museum is a re-creation of the Tucson Presidio built in 1775, the same year that the Anza expedition passed through along the Santa Cruz River along the overland route that would establish the city of San Francisco and Spanish power in Alta California. An Anza NHT Passpost Stamp is located here.

San Cayetano de Calabazas

• Type: Place

Only accessible during guided tours, the Calabazas mission site offers an excellent perspective on the adaptive re-use of mission-era buildings through the Civil War period and beyond.