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National Park Service: Guadalupe Mountains
For over 10,000 years folks have been drawn to the Guadalupe Mountains in western Texas originally for its beauty, resources, and in more recent years its history. One of the most fascinating features to this national park is that in the...
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National Park Service: Guadalupe Mountains
For over 10,000 years folks have been drawn to the Guadalupe Mountains in western Texas originally for its beauty, resources, and in more recent years its history. One of the most fascinating features to this national park is that in the...
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National Park Service: New Bedford Whaling Historical Park: History & Culture
This national park site offers insight into the economic stimulus whaling brought to New England and has left behind a strong history for that region.
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National Park Service: Great Smoky Mountains
Visit "America's Most Visited National Park. "Provides maps, weather, and park activities.
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National Park Service: Web Cameras
Use national park webcams to determine how regional haze forms and reduces visibility. You can also explore the differences between smog and haze to determine some of the negative economic impacts regional haze can create.
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National Park Service: Explore Nature: Views: Glaciers: Embark on a Journey
Learn about types, features, and movement of glaciers, erosion and deposition of rock, and locations of glaciers in our National Parks. Read about how scientists monitor glacial movement and conduct scientific research on climate's...
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National Park Service: Zion National Park
What do you know about Zion National Park? Use this site to learn more about this national park. This site features activities, maps and more.
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National Park Service: Yellowstone National Park Kids Website
This official Yellowstone National Park Kids Website is filled with activities for children of all ages.
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National Park Service: Yellowstone National Park
Discover everything you ever wanted to know about Yellowstone National Park through this National Park website. This site provides links to historical facts, planning a trip, maps and more.
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National Park Service: Tour of Park Geology: Shoreline Geology
Learn about the National Parks that are located on a coast with this website. Website contains links to the 97 National Parks that include a shoreline.
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National Park Service: Tour of Park Geology: Basin and Range Parks
Learn about the Basin and Range Geology in this tour of Basins and Ranges found in the National Parks.
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Take a journey to the national parks to gain information about their geology through photographs, maps, and field notes. Learn about disturbed lands restoration, mineral and resource management, fossil deposits, geological features, and...
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National Park Service: Energy and Minerals
A site that reviews over the mining of minerals, oils, and gasses in the National Parks. Understand that programs that are put in place to ensure the mining is done responsibility and does not affect the parks resources.
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National Park Service: Rocky Mountain National Park: Geologic Activity
The National Park Service gives information on glaciers during the Bull Lake glaciation period and the Pinedale glaciation period. Find out what happened to these glaciers and what they left behind.
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National Park Service: Soil Resource Management in the National Parks
An article discussing how the National Parks Service uses the soil program to manage soil sustainability. Learn how maintaining the soil is key to protect many other areas in the National Park Services.
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National Park Service: Sleeping Bear Dunes Michigan: Glaciers/glacial Features
The National Park Service provides information on sand dunes that have been created by glaciers. Twice during its lifetime the glaciers have dumped large land masses into Michigan.
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National Park Service: Death Valley National Park
Death Valley acquired its name during the California Gold Rush, but the Timbisha Shoshone inhabited the region long before. The severely hot and dry national park is packed with history, culture, incredible geology, and, believe it or...
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National Park Service: Death Valley National Park
Death Valley acquired its name during the California Gold Rush, but the Timbisha Shoshone inhabited the region long before. The severely hot and dry national park is packed with history, culture, incredible geology, and, believe it or...
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National Park Service: John White Colony
This site from the National Park Service details John White and the colony of Roanoke.
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National Park Service: National Mall
This site is from the National Park Service. No shoe stores at this mall! Find out about our national "front yard" -- statistics, a link to the history of the National Mall, and a listing of all the monuments on the Mall. Also includes a...
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National Park Service: Revolutionary War: Portraits: Ames Wilkinson
Portrait from the United States National Park Service Museum Collection on American General James Wilkinson is presented with a biographical sketch offered under the About the Man link. Learn about the portrait and the subject in this...
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National Park Service: Pocahontas: Her Life and Legend
Discover the legend of Indian princess Pocahontas and her relationships with Captain John Smith and John Rolfe in this story from the National Park Service.
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National Park Service: Fort Necessity National Battlefield: The National Road
A discussion of the building of the National Road, its route, and importance to the opening of the West. From the National Park Service.
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National Park Service: Pea Ridge National Military Park: Colonel Stand Watie
A brief biography of Stand Watie, who was a colonel at the Battle of Pea Ridge, but became the only Native American general in the Civil War. From the National Park Service.