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Photos Depict Tropical Storm Damage Along Blue Ridge Parkway
Oct 4, 2024 · Images taken by National Park Service crews assessing damage from Tropical Storm Helene along the Blue Ridge Parkway illustrate just how devastating the storm was.
The Unusual Story Behind Death Valley National Park's Popular …
Sep 14, 2014 · Death Valley National Park has plenty of colorful place names, including Furnace Creek, Stovepipe Wells, Last Chance Mountain, and Devil's Golf Course, so modern-day visitors might be understandably curious about the one given to one of the most popular scenic overlooks in the park: Zabriskie Point.. The explanation may be a bit surprising, since the name is tied to an activity not usually ...
Tahoma And Its People: A Natural History Of Mount Rainier …
Apr 1, 2020 · Mount Rainier towers above its surroundings. The 360-degree view from its summit is stunning, encompassing Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountains to the west, Mount Baker far to the north, the Columbia River country to the east, spreading south toward Mount Adams, Mount St. Helens, and Mount Hood down in Oregon. I saw …
Caldera Or Crater…What’s The Difference? - National Parks Traveler
Jan 9, 2024 · Editor's note: Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory.This week's contribution is from Michael Poland, geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey and Scientist-in-Charge of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory.
By the Numbers: Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument
Jun 24, 2011 · The battle popularly known as "Custer's Last Stand," and now also recognized as the last stand of the Plains Indians (who called it the Battle of the Greasy Grass), was fought in southeastern Montana on June 25-26, 1876. Here are some highlight statistics for Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument and the battle it commemorates. 320,959 Recreational visits in …
The Cold Vanish: Seeking The Missing In North America’s Wildlands
May 16, 2020 · An astonishing 600,000 people go missing in North America each year, most of whom are quickly found, but those who disappear in the wilder parts of the continent are often much harder to find. Journalist John Billman admits to being “obsessed with writing about missing persons in wild places,” and in this book he travels thousands of miles from Hawaii to Washington State to the wilds of ...
National Parks Quiz And Trivia #70
Jan 6, 2024 · How many of you have visited Fossil Butte National Monument in Wyoming? Considered “America’s aquarium in stone,” you’ll have seen some of the world’s best-preserved fossils. According to the NPS, “The fossils found here once lived in and around a large freshwater lake 52-million-years ago in the early Eocene epoch.”
Guadalupe Mountains National Park
Aug 20, 2024 · Guadalupe Mountains National Park is home to the world’s most extensive Permian fossil reef, the four highest points in Texas, various ecosystems, and historic stories of bloodshed and survival all waiting to be explored.
The Geology Of Petrified Forest National Park
Gazing out across Petrified Forest National Park, it's hard to believe that this view once was thick with vegetation, streams, and animals. But that was hundreds of millions of years ago, during the Late Triassic Period when the land mass was much, much …