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Though the National Park Service (NPS) was only 25 years old at the outbreak of World War II, the agency found itself fighting a battle on the homefront. With little precedent to work from and dwindling budgets and staff, the NPS strongly defended its parks against a flood of demands to log, mine, graze, drain, and take over national parks
It was a record-setting year at Shenandoah National Park as 2023 was the warmest year ever recorded (since 1895) in the eight counties surrounding the park. It was also a dry year, ranking as the 28th driest on record.
There were many people who played a role in the foundation of Shenandoah National Park. Learn about how these people, who together represented public committees, private interests, local government all the way up to the Department of the Interior, brought the idea of an eastern national park into reality, and the events along the way that shaped a section of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains into the Shenandoah National Park we know today.
Shenandoah National Park experienced an extremely warm 2021 with total precipitation that was below normal. The year ended as the 4th warmest and 41st driest year since 1895.
Shenandoah National Park, partnering with the Shenandoah National Park Trust, is vigorously fighting the potential destruction of 99% of its ash trees due to the emerald ash borer.
Primary source documents reveal the thinking and decision making of park managers, from the highest level of the National Park Service to local concessionaires, surrounding the creation of segregated facilities in Shenandoah National Park in the 1930s and the desegregation of the same facilities by 1950.
