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dedicated exclusively to America's
parklands, wildlife habitats and open
space issues.
NPT Vision:
Everyone will have an
American Park Experience.
NPT Mission:
To champion the acquisition and
preservation of America's critical parklands through
education, partnerships, and community-building.
On this day in history:
April 3 1860:
The Pony Express began to carry overland mail on
the Oregon Trail but was discontinued after only 18 months following
completion of the transcontinental telegraph. Both the Pony Express
and the telegraph had stations at Fort Laramie, now Fort Laramie
National Historic Site, WY.
SAVE THE DATE!
2008 Bruce F.
Vento Public Service Award
 NPT is pleased to announce that Senator Harry
Reid of Nevada will receive the 2008 Bruce F. Vento Award.
SAVE THE DATE - Tuesday, June
10, 2008
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The Award recognizes an individual who
has demonstrated a lifetime of
outstanding service, skill,
resourcefulness or innovation in the
preservation of land, water or historic
resources for the legacy of America.
2007 Recipient
Parkland
Perspective -
Message from
NPT Executive Director
"We, the Board and staff at NPT, are
excited to share with you our new
vision: Everyone will have an
American Park Experience."
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First Annual
Children &
Nature Awareness
Month
- April 2008
 Children
& Nature Network
(C&NN)
has designated
April "Children
& Nature
Awareness
Month."
As part of this
effort, C&NN
will be
publishing an
online guide to
regional events
for April, with
suggestions from
network members
on how to build
public awareness
of the issue and
create
solutions.
More
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http://www.cnaturenet.org/movement/info |
Washington Family Legacy
Preservation
Effort in West Virginia
National arts group
agrees to support national park study
The Journal
March 28, 2008
 A national historic arts group
based in Philadelphia came to Jefferson
County to explore the historic
Washington family homes in Jefferson
County as part of a symposium on the
topic. About 60 members of the
Decorative Arts Trust came from all over
the country. to Alexandria, Va., where
they listened to lectures about the
Washington family and embarked on a
journey through Harewood and Happy
Retreat, the two 18th-century mansions
of President George Washington’s
brothers, Samuel and Charles.
More >>http://journal-news.net/page/content.detail/id/505066.html
Kit McGinnis, NPT's land projects
manager, presented a summary of the
Washington family project to the
Decorative Arts Trust. NPT is actively involved
in preserving this legacy. For
additional information or to submit
letters of support, please contact Kit
McGinnis at
Kit@parktrust.org or 304.728.3506 |
National Cherry
Blossom Festival Kickoff Held
National Park Service
 March
31, 2008
On Friday,
March 28th, Secretary Kempthorne,
Director Bomar and Superintendent Peggy
O’Dell hosted a joint press conference
along with partner organizations to
announce the enhanced visitor services
that will be offered at the 2008
National Cherry Blossom Festival, which
began on Saturday, March 29th, and
continues through Sunday, April 13th.
Festival
information links:
www.nationalcherryblossomfestival.org
http://www.nps.gov/nama/planyourvisit/national-cherry-blossom-page.htm |
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Forest Service May Move to
Interior
Some See Agency As Out of
Place Under the USDA
The Washington Post (Sent
by Grace Lee)
March 25, 2008
The 103-year-old agency,
which manages 193 million
acres of forests and
grasslands, is part of the
Department of Agriculture.
Its bureaucratic cousins --
the National Park Service,
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service, and the Bureau of
Land Management, which
manage 84 million acres, 96
million acres and 258
million acres of public
land, respectively -- are in
the Interior Department.
More >>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/24/
AR2008032402510.html?sub=AR |
Prairie Home Companions
Once slaughtered close to
extinction, the buffalo roam
again across the fields of
Yellowstone National Park.
Now they have a ghost of a
chance.
 The
Washington Post Magazine
(Sent by Grace Lee)
By: William Booth
March 30, 2008
BISON ARE THE LARGEST LAND
ANIMALS LEFT IN NORTH
AMERICA. Somehow, they
survived the Pleistocene
extinction, the still deeply
mysterious death spasm that
saw the continental
megafauna vanish at the end
of the last Ice Age, when
the Yellowstone River Valley
would have resembled an
over-the-top science fiction
film: a world of giant
beavers, woolly mammoth,
saber-toothed tigers, ground
sloths, stag moose, dire
wolves. There was a
long-legged, fast-running,
short-faced bear. Our
continent's version of the
cheetah, a 400-pounder.
Camels. Horses. They all
disappeared except for the
buffalo and the wolf.
More >>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/03/28/
ST2008032800246.html?sid=ST2008032800246 |
Petrified Forest park
expansion stalled
 USA
Today (Sent by Ken Fitch)
April 2, 2008
PHOENIX — Government plans
to more than double the size
of Petrified Forest National
Park appear to be in
jeopardy because Congress
has failed to come up with
the cash to buy surrounding
properties it approved for
expansion in 2004. Without
government funding, an
irreplaceable treasure of
dinosaur bones and Indian
ruins may be lost as
ranchers sell off their
spreads for subdivision and
development, according to
David Gillette, curator of
vertebrate paleontology at
the Museum of Northern
Arizona.
More >>http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/environment/2008-03-31
-petrified-forests_N.htm |
Gray wolf restored in
Rockies; states take over
now
The Great Falls Tribune
April 2, 2008
Great Falls residents may
remember when the first
caged wolves were brought
through town on their way
from Canada to the
Yellowstone National Park
area. Long gone from the
area because of aggressive
eradication campaigns
earlier in the century, the
gray wolf was reintroduced
to the Northern Rockies
region under the protection
of the federal Endangered
Species Act.
Thirteen years and $27
million later, some 1,500
wolves inhabit the region,
including at least 420 in
Montana. Though there are
logical flaws in doing this
math, that works out to
$18,000 per animal.
More >>http://www.greatfallstribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/
20080402/OPINION01/804020308 |
Yosemite Park Blocked From
Doing Repairs
The Washington Post
March 28, 2008
FRESNO, Calif. -- Yosemite
National Park must halt more
than $100 million in planned
construction projects
because the developments
threaten the park's fragile
ecosystem, a federal appeals
court panel ruled Thursday.
More >>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/28/
AR2008032802725.html |
Flight 93 Memorial Effort
Gains Over 900 Acres
New York Times
March 19, 2008
A group made up of relatives
of those killed aboard
United Flight 93 on Sept.
11, 2001, announced Tuesday
[March 18] that it had
agreed to buy a 903-acre
tract to be part of a
permanent memorial near
Shanksville, Pa. The land is
owned by PBS Coals Inc., a
company in Somerset, Pa.,
that previously mined the
site. The company will also
donate the 27 acres closest
to the crash site. Both
parcels will eventually be
transferred to the National
Park Service, which is
overseeing the creation of
the memorial.
More >>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/19/us/19memorial.html?
scp=17&sq=%22national+park%22&st=nyt |
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Quote for
this day:
"I had no idea that history
was being made. I was just
tired of giving up."
— Rosa Parks |
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Did you Know?
Theodore
Roosevelt
Theodore
Roosevelt was the first President to do
the following:
- Fly an
airplane.
- He flew at an air show at
Aviation Field in St. Louis, Missouri, on
October 11, 1910. The plane stayed in the
air for about four minutes.
- Be submerged in a submarine.
- Own a car.
- Have a telephone in his home.
- Travel outside the borders of the U.S.
while still in office. He took the
battleship USS Louisiana to Panama in
1906.
- Entertain an African-American in the
White House. He invited Booker T.
Washington to dinner.
- Win a Nobel Prize in any of the six
categories. He was awarded the Nobel Peace
Prize in 1906.
- Roosevelt signed into law the first 51
federal bird sanctuaries and the first 18
national monuments.
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