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Great Basin National Park
Land Mollusks of Great Basin National Park
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Land snails and slugs are important invertebrate inhabitants of woodland litter and soils, boulder and talus slides, riparian meadows, and vegetation around springs throughout the Great Basin. These land-inhabiting invertebrates play critical roles in these mountain habitats such as decomposing dead plant material for use by bacteria and fungi, recycling important biological nutrients, passively transporting fungal spores through litter, and providing nutrients to predators.
Great Basin National Park
Nineteen Species of Terrestrial Mollusks Found in Park
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Land snails and slugs existing in the Great Basin desert may seem like a paradox with valleys of salt flats, rivers that sink into the ground, and long miles between high mountain ranges. However, in Great Basin National Park there exists today, although small and inconspicuous, 18 species of land snails and one species of slug.
Manhattan Project National Historical Park
Hanford: T Plant Panoramic Tour
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Built during the Manhattan Project, Hanford’s T Plant was the first separations plant in the world constructed to chemically separate radioactive materials. Much of the separations work was done remotely to protect workers from the tremendous amount of radiation given off by the irradiated uranium fuel slugs. Separating a man-made material from a highly radioactive fuel slug at an industrial scale had never been done before.
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If you go too fast, you might miss it. If you forget to look close enough, you might miss it. It’s the miniature, but bright-eyed, jumping spider hiding amongst the blooming flowers of buckwheat. It’s the neon sea slug only as big as a pink jelly bean feeding in the seagrass, overlooked despite its vibrant coloration. It’s a world of easily overlooked species, a microcosm teeming with life, secrets, and wonder.
Cabrillo National Monument
La Jolla Tidepools and The Children's Pool
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Manhattan Project National Historical Park
T Plant
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T Plant, Hanford’s first and largest chemical separation plant, began operations on December 26, 1944. T Plant was designed to process about a half-pound (250 grams) of plutonium metal from one ton (907kg) of irradiated uranium each day.
Manhattan Project National Historical Park
B Reactor Overlook
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The B Reactor Overlook on Washington State Route 24 offers views of Manhattan Project facilities on the Hanford Site. This vista shows how the Manhattan Project transformed this region, displacing farmers such as the Bruggemans, while constructing massive plutonium production facilities in former farming communities. From this overlook, you can see the B Reactor, T Plant, and the Bruggemann’s warehouse, which was part of a large agricultural operation.
Manhattan Project National Historical Park
B Reactor
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The B Reactor is the world's first full-scale nuclear reactor. The plutonium produced here was used in the Trinity Test and in the Fat Man bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan on August 9, 1945. Visitors can only tour the B Reactor via tours offered by the Department of Energy.
Manhattan Project National Historical Park
300 Area Fuel Fabrication Site
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The 300 Area was home to the fuel fabrication operations for Hanford. Here, hundreds of thousands of tons of raw uranium were formed into fuel slugs that were irradiated in the Hanford nuclear reactors to produce plutonium for the war effort. Many of the buildings in the 300 Area have been demolished as part of the Department of Energy’s cleanup efforts.
Sitka National Historical Park
National Park Getaway: Sitka National Historical Park
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Take a tour of Sitka National Historical Park with a banana slug as a guide. Explore the natural and cultural heritage of the oldest park in Alaska discovering its rich history, biodiversity, and recreational opportunities.
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Fern Creek is the first section of a loop around the Alice Eastwood campground and an access point to Mount Tamalpais State Park. This area, like much of Muir Woods, is home to many animal friends. Despite living in all areas of the woods, from the forest floor to high up in the canopy, most inhabitants are hard to spot, so keep your peepers peeled!
San Juan Island National Historical Park
Comparative Ecology of the Native Banana Slug and a Comparably-sized Invasive Slug in Washington State
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There are two very obvious, large slugs species on San Juan Island: the native banana slug and an invasive European slug. Dr. Erika Iyengar and her students from Muhlenberg College have been studying slugs in San Juan Island National Historical Park for the last four years. Their research is focused on food and habitat preferences for each species and how climate change may impact their future ecology.