National Park Service

National Park Service

• Report: NPS hantavirus response followed policy

  Federal investigators probing the hantavirus outbreak blamed for three deaths at Yosemite National Park recommended on Monday that design changes to ... 

• Park Service chief defends handling of budget cuts

  Facing withering criticism from House Republicans, the director of the National Park Service Tuesday rejected suggestions the agency purposely hyped ... 

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  Alcatraz marks 50 years since closure with photos

  The black-and-white photographs show a line of prisoners — some with heads bowed, others with eyes staring forlornly at the camera — as a guard leads ... 

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  APNewsBreak: National park cuts detailed in memo

  The towering giant sequoias at Yosemite National Park would go unprotected from visitors who might trample their shallow roots. At Cape Cod National ... 

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  Obama: Hill must make 'right decisions' on cuts

  President Barack Obama, intensifying pressure on congressional Republicans, said Friday that lawmakers still have "the opportunity to make the right ... 

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  Pearl Harbor survivor helps identify unknown dead

  Ray Emory could not accept that more than one quarter of the 2,400 Americans who died at Pearl Harbor were buried, unidentified, in a volcanic crater. 

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  No estimate on reopening Liberty Island; statue OK

  The Statue of Liberty survived Superstorm Sandy with every crown spike in place, but its surrounding island was so badly damaged that the National ... 

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  Calif oyster farm closure ends long battle

  Kevin Lunny's struggle to keep his family's oyster farm running in Point Reyes National Seashore appears to be over, closing out an era of oysterman ...