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Greetings from Shenandoah National Park

This - not terribly exciting - photo collage, represents a day in the life of volunteers in the park's Invasive Plant Program. Some of these hardy folks are event volunteers, while others are Habitat Defenders (I serve as both) who manage a section of the park with regard to removing…
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Greetings from Glacier National Park

I was 40 years old when I discovered our National Parks. I was between jobs and went to a hiking camp in southwest Utah and fell in love with Zion National Park. I came home and bought my husband hiking boots and we've been hiking our way through the God's…
Greetings from Grand Canyon National Park

The best vacation that my family ever took was in 1993, when our 3 daughters were aged 18, 13, and 10, respectively. We named the trip our "Great Gaping Holes In The Earth Tour" because we started out from southern California and visited Meteor Crater, the Grand Canyon, Bryce Canyon,…
Greetings from Harpers Ferry National Historical Park

Last year, I volunteered with a group of my coworkers at Harpers Ferry. We rebuilt a historic wooden fence and when I went back six months later, it was still standing!
Greetings from Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Honors College students from 11 different universities spent a week camping and hiking in GSMNP, learning about opportunities and challenges facing NPS staff and researchers trying to provide for visitors while preserving the environmental quality of the GSMNP. These Partners in the Parks projects are offered through NCHC and NPS…