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Palo Alto Battlefield: History Stands Tall, Thanks to the Great American Outdoors Act

Type: Article

By using the expertise of a MAT team, Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park maximized the impact of GAOA funding, demonstrating how specialized teams efficiently address critical needs in parks across the country. Learn how Palo Alto Battlefield stands ready to continue sharing its stories of courage and sacrifice, thanks to this vital project.

Boreal shrub and tree expansion promotes soil warming

Type: Article

Read the abstract and get the link to an article published in Environmental Research Letters that connects vegetation shift to warming Arctic and Boreal soils under vegetation. Kropp, H., M. M. Loranty, S. M. Natali, A. L. Kholodov, A. V. Rocha, … J. A. O’Donnell … et al. 2020. Shallow soils are warmer under trees and tall shrubs across Arctic and Boreal ecosystems. Environmental Research Letters.

Antietam National Battlefield

New York State Monument

Type: Place

One of the tallest monuments on the field at about 58 feet tall, it was dedicated September 17, 1920, on the 58th Anniversary of the Battle of Antietam. The bronze tablets list the generals from New York who were in command and the New York regiments and batteries at Antietam and depict the New York State coat of arms. Almost one-fourth of the Union army at Antietam was from New York. Over 250 Civil War veterans attended the dedication.

Katharine Lee Bates

Type: Person

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”

Type: Article

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.

Scotts Bluff National Monument

Prairie View Trail

Type: Place

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.

Blackland Prairie section Northern Terminus Trailhead, Milepost 266

Type: Place

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.

Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area

Long Island Light

Type: Place

$11,500 dollars for the lighthouse, and the Boston Marine Society picked the location on the north end of the island. First lit in 1819, the light, then named “Inner Harbor Light,” stood at 20 feet tall.

“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

Type: Article

The Prairie Pothole environment is changing due to new climate conditions.

Golden Gate National Recreation Area

Prairie Restoration Underway at Rancho Corral de Tierra

Type: Article

Work on the Montara Prairie Renewal Project began in Fall 2024. The restoration project aims to protect and enhance coastal grasslands in the Montara Parcel of Rancho Corral de Tierra. We have already completed pre-restoration monitoring, and removal of several acres of invasive shrubs and conifers within historic grassland footprints.

Species Inventories Reveal the Lichens and Bryophytes of Lewis and Clark National Historical Park

Type: Article

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.