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Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park
Pollinator Garden
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The pollinator garden at Resaca de la Palma Battlefield helps provide plants for use by local wildlife in a landscape where their habitat is highly fragmented.
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park
The Legacy of the Port Royal Experiment
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
The White House and President's Park
General William Tecumseh Sherman Statue
- Type: Place
This monument consists of a bronze equestrian statue of Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891) and a square platform with a bronze soldier at each corner, representing the four branches of the U.S. Army: infantry, artillery, cavalry, and engineers. President Theodore Roosevelt dedicated the monument on October 15, 1903. This site was chosen because General Sherman was reported to have stood here while reviewing returning Civil War troops in May 1865.
Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park
Resaca Overlook
- Type: Place
The resaca overlook at Resaca de la Palma Battlefield gives visitors a close-up look at the site’s namesake water feature.
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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.
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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.
Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park
Hydrology at Palo Alto Battlefield
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Palo Alto Battlefield is located within the Rio Grande Delta. It is a landscape characterized by low ridges and shortened meanders of former channels of the Rio Grande. These meanders, called resacas, once functioned as part of a vast distributary network during times of flood.
Project Profile: Remove Invasive Species to Protect Native and At-risk Species in the Colorado River
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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
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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.
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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.
National Mall and Memorial Parks
Japanese Lantern
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Presented to the city of Washington on March 30, 1954, this stone lantern symbolizes the enduring cultural partnership that re-emerged between Japan and the United States after World War II. The lantern is one of two memorializing Tokugawa Iemitsu, the third shogun of the Tokugawa Dynasty, under his posthumous name Daiyuinden. Carved in 1651, it stood for over 300 years on the grounds of the Toeizan Kan'eiji Temple which contained the remains of the Tokugawa Shoguns. The temp
Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park
Minerva McClatchey
- Type: Person
Minerva Leah Rowles McClatchey was a wife, mother, author, and farmer who decided to stay in her Marietta, Georgia, home during the Civil War's Atlanta Campaign. Her diary entries give first-hand accounts of the horrors of war and the characters of men from the Union and Confederate Armies.