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National Park Service

Public Comment on World War II NPS Historic Sites

November 30, 2009

This Thursday and Friday, the National Park Service will hold listening sessions in Los Angeles and San Francisco to take public comments about its grand program for preserving World War II-era Japanese Internment sites.
I know it’s not technically hiking news, but I had the opportunity to visit Manzanar National Historic Site this year on the [...]

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Ranger vs. Rattler

May 28, 2009

While the title of the video is a bit misleading – you don’t ever see the ranger and there’s no actual fight – the content is pretty intense.
This is a video of a Western Diamondback Rattlesnake, coiled and rattling, taken in the Santa Monica Mountains. The video was shot by a National [...]

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NPS Map Update

February 11, 2008

The National Park Service has updated and upgraded the maps on individual parks’ web sites.
They’re basically high-res scans of those Park maps they hand out at Visitors’ Centers — so while they’re not really suitable for hiking, they are great at getting an overview of a specific area you’re planning on visiting … [...]

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Park Service Old-Timers Tell It Like It Is

January 8, 2008

It often seems like National Park Service employees aren’t really allowed to speak their mind until well AFTER they’ve left the Service — even when it’s their job to specifically do so.
So while we watch President Bush make web videos about how much he loves the Park Service, we can later read a [...]

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