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    America’s most visited national park says not to come after Hurricane Helene left a trail of damage
    Tennessee

    America’s most visited national park says not to come after Hurricane Helene left a trail of damage

    Park rangers at Great Smoky Mountains National Park – America’s most visited national park – are urging people to postpone all travel there after the park was damaged by Hurricane Helene. The national park straddled the Tennessee-North Carolina border and…

    Posted on Eira Gwyneth
    Fat Bear Week participants fight to the death – who started it?
    Albany

    Fat Bear Week participants fight to the death – who started it?

    He couldn’t stand the competition. Fat Bear Week has returned, but the bears’ gruesome nature has brought the “celebration of success and survival” to a halt. The location of the competition was scheduled to be announced Monday, but when a…

    Posted on Madoc Meredith
    National Parks are part of the NYT Strands puzzle. Here’s where to find them in KY
    Idaho

    National Parks are part of the NYT Strands puzzle. Here’s where to find them in KY

    Puzzle lovers today rushed to Google to find the names of the national parks hidden in today’s NYT Strand issue on “American Beauty.” According to the National Park Service, Kentucky has nine national parks, some of which are spread across…

    Posted on Madoc Meredith
    On this day in history, August 25, 1916, the National Park Service was founded under President Wilson
    Massachusetts

    On this day in history, August 25, 1916, the National Park Service was founded under President Wilson

    When President Woodrow Wilson signed the National Park Service Organic Act on August 25, 1916, the United States took a bold step to expand and protect the largest park system in the world. In particular, the law led to the…

    Posted on Idris Bevan
    On this day in history, August 25, 1916, the National Park Service was founded under President Wilson
    Massachusetts

    On this day in history, August 25, 1916, the National Park Service was founded under President Wilson

    When President Woodrow Wilson signed the National Park Service Organic Act on August 25, 1916, the United States took a bold step to expand and protect the largest park system in the world. In particular, the law led to the…

    Posted on Idris Bevan
    German tourist faces prison after paintball battle in Joshua Tree
    Iowa

    German tourist faces prison after paintball battle in Joshua Tree

    National Park Service/Joshua Tree President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the man who Joshua Tree a national monument in 1936, just three years before World War II against Germany, is turning in its grave after some German tourists came to America and…

    Posted on Eira Gwyneth
    German tourists fined for vandalism in Joshua Tree National Park
    Iowa

    German tourists fined for vandalism in Joshua Tree National Park

    German tourists have been charged after they admitted to destroying property and buildings in Joshua Tree National Park, according to a press release from the National Parks Service (NPS) and a report in The New York Times. A park ranger…

    Posted on Eira Gwyneth
    German tourists shot paintballs with slingshots in Joshua Tree National Park
    Iowa

    German tourists shot paintballs with slingshots in Joshua Tree National Park

    A trio of German tourists are said to have fired yellow paintballs at nearly a dozen signs in Joshua Tree National Park over the weekend, officials said. The three visitors used a paintball gun and slingshots and also shot at…

    Posted on Eira Gwyneth

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