GULF OIL SPILL POSES UNPRECEDENTED CHALLENGE TO NATIONAL PARKS – NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION LAUNCHES DISASTER RECOVERY FUND DONATE NOW AT WWW.NATIONALPARKS.ORG OR TEXT “PARKS” TO 90999 WASHINGTON, D.C. (May 24, 2010) – The ongoing Gulf oil spill poses an historic challenge to the national parks in the Gulf region, and beyond. The National Park Foundation, [...]
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 [...]
Harrisburg, PA — The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission (PFBC) today announced that state and federal agencies have successfully reached a $21 million settlement over environmental damages stemming from a Superfund site in Northeast Pennsylvania’s Carbon, Lehigh and Northampton counties. “While this settlement is the largest natural resource damage settlement to date in Pennsylvania, it [...]
Image via Wikipedia National Park Service News Release July 22, 2009 Cuyahoga Valley National Park America’s Best Idea: National Park Getaway BRECKSVILLE, Ohio – Need a break from big city rock-and-roll? Unwind by skipping rocks and rolling through the countryside by bike or train at Cuyahoga Valley National Park, just a short drive from Cleveland [...]
