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In honor of our 50th anniversary year in 2025, Cuyahoga Valley National Park is compiling this list of key dates in our history.

Labor organizing has a long history in agriculture. Between 1930 and 1960, diverse groups of farmworkers in California struggled to form unions and to take collective action for better wages and working conditions. This article highlights the political and legal structures that made organizing in the fields especially difficult.

Depriving western old-growth forests of fire brought them to the brink. Now the fire they need also threatens them. To fix this, parks are returning to mechanical forestry methods.

Archeologists at the University of Hawai’i Mānoa and National Park Service staff at Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park want to know more about the stone walls - kuaiwi - in the Kaʻū Field System. Why did ancient Hawaiians build them and what can they teach modern farmers about cultivating a more sustainable future?

The home and farm of President James A Garfield, nicknamed "Lawnfield," remains significant for its association with President Garfield and for its distinctive design. In 1880, visitors and reporters traveled to Congressman and presidential candidate Garfield's Mentor, Ohio farm to hear him deliver campaign speeches from his porch. After President Garfield’s assassination in 1881, his widow, Lucretia Rudolph Garfield, made many improvements to the buildings and landscape.

The Worthington Farm, also known as Clifton, is a component landscape of Monocacy National Battlefield. Located just west of the Thomas Farm and alongside the Monocacy River, the property's patchwork of fields and woodlands represents the agricultural landscape that was present here in 1800s. The Worthington House is the only building dating to the time of the Civil War Battle of Monocacy.

Portici is a cultural landscape within Manassas National Battlefield Park that demonstrates the development of agriculture in Virginia since European contact and up to the present day. The landscape history reflects the changing industry, labor practices, and environment before and after the Civil War.

The Homestead National Historical Park cultural landscape conveys the influence of the Homestead Act of 1862 and legacy of Daniel Freeman. It also represents homesteads across America. Homesteading provided a way of life for many Americans and contributed to westward expansion in the developing nation.

This fun children's video about wheat was featured as a reward video for children who played Homestead's Webranger activities. Webranger may be gone, but Homestead's videos are preserved here!

Working with Scientists in Parks, a program that partners early career scientists with projects in National Park units, Claire Kubacki began work on a plant program that will benefit the historic and cultural landscape of Pearl Harbor National Memorial. The goals of the project are to take cuttings of the historic trees and shrubs around the chief petty officer bungalows in order to propagate the very plants that stood witness to the attack on Pearl Harbor.