Image via Wikipedia Who Says the Federal Government doesn’t have a sense of humor? This was the NPS Weekend Getaway Idea for today, the day the first major blizzard blankets the country: HOMESTEAD, Fla. – Gray skies, early dusks, and biting cold—not to mention snow, sleet, and slush—can give the blues to residents of temperate [...]
Image via Wikipedia Sometimes, when reading the press releases, I come across one I just have to post, regardless of the actual interest to my readers: Five giant non-native snake species would pose high risks to the health of ecosystems in the United States should they become established here, according to a U.S. Geological Survey [...]
Image via Wikipedia WASHINGTON – Millions of Americans are tuning in this week to watch Ken Burns’s latest PBS film The National Parks: America’s Best Idea. Viewers will be glued to their TVs as the nation’s preeminent storyteller trains his lens on the national parks. Then what? Here are a couple of ideas from the [...]
Image via Wikipedia Washington, DC – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced that the federal government has reached agreement with all of the landowners for all properties needed for the construction of the Flight 93 Memorial in western Pennsylvania. “The fields of western Pennsylvania, where the heroes of Flight 93 perished, are hallowed [...]
Image via Wikipedia To minimize potential health impacts, it’s suggested that hunters don’t eat merganser ducks, especially those harvested in the Lake Erie and northwestern Pennsylvania hunting zones. Studies conducted over the past two decades on Pennsylvania and New York mergansers, especially common and red-breasted mergansers in the Lake Erie region, have concluded they may [...]
