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Yellowstone National Park

Wapiti Lake Trailhead (4K7)
  • Type: Place

This trailhead starts at the Chittenden Bridge Picnic Area. A series of trails can be explored from this trailhead:- Wapiti Lake Trail- Howard Eaton Trail: Fishing Bridge-Canyon- Clear Lake-Ribbon Lake Trail- Sour Creek Trail- Wrangle Lake Trail Wapiti Lake Trail This is a long, 30.6-mile (49.2-km) there-and-back trail that travels through forests and meadows, and past lakes and backcountry thermal basins, to a series of backcountry campsites near Wapiti Lake. Howard Eaton Tr

Old Spanish National Historic Trail

Old Spanish National Historic Trail
  • Type: Place

Follow the routes of mule pack trains across the Southwest on the Old Spanish National Historic Trail between Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Los Angeles, California. New Mexican traders moved locally produced merchandise across what are now six states to exchange for mules and horses. Learn more about this national historic trail and others! This trail is jointly administered by the National Park Service and the Bureau of Land Management.

Amache National Historic Site

Amache Cemetery
  • Type: Place

Established between 1942 and 1945 when the area was Granada War Relocation Center, the cemetery includes 11 grave plots, ten with markers and one without. According to WRA records, 106 deaths occurred at Amache, although many remains were voluntarily removed after Amache’s closure in 1945.

Tule Lake National Monument

Why I Refused To Register
  • Type: Article

On January 29, 1943, The War Department announced a new registration program in order to approve incarcerated Japanese Americans for military service or relocation to the midwest or east coast. The WRA began administering the loyalty questionnaire to all internees over 17 years of age on February 3rd. This account, written several years later at an Army prison, explains why this anonymous person refused to register and answer the loyalty questionnaire.

Tule Lake National Monument

Property Claim of Yasuhei Nagashima
  • Type: Article

This claim, in the amount of $807.75, is for loss resulting from WRA's erroneous sale at public auction of property stored by claimant in the WRA warehouse at Tule Lake Segregation Center.

Manzanar National Historic Site

Manzanar: Ironing Room
  • Type: Place

The War Relocation Authority (WRA) paid Japanese Americans to build ironing rooms near the laundry rooms in each block. They completed construction in early July 1942, yet by August Tanaka noted, “Still unused for their original purpose are the ironing rooms on each block.”

Manzanar National Historic Site

Manzanar: Block 14, Barrack 8
  • Type: Place
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Beginning in the summer of 1942, the War Relocation Authority (WRA) hired Japanese American crews to install linoleum floors and hang sheetrock on walls and ceilings. But other promised improvements never appeared. People who could afford it bought items from catalogs or had belongings delivered from storage. Some people built furniture from scrap wood, nails, and cement that they “borrowed for the duration.”

Manzanar National Historic Site

Manzanar's Children's Village
  • Type: Place
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The Children's Village at Manzanar was the only orphanage in a WRA facility

Data Manager Profile: Judd Patterson
  • Type: Article
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Meet Judd Patterson, Data Manager for the South Florida Caribbean Network. As a data manager, helps wrangle all the information that we collect on the health of our park resources. Judd is excited about the stories data can tell through time, whether that's looking back at park records from over a hundred years ago, or making sure the science we do in our parks today become time capsules for future generations to learn about how things were back in 2021.

Inventory and Monitoring Division

Data Manager Profile: Simon Kingston
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Meet Data Manager Simon Kingston, a.k.a the "Hi-Tech Data Ranger!" Simon has been wrangling datasets and supporting conservation database systems for most of the Inventory & Monitoring Program's evolution from a small team of people to 32 fully-staffed networks across the country. Hear Simon's story in his own words as he explores how he got to be where he is today, the importance of public data, and where we go from here.