John Muir said, “Everyone needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul alike”.
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She encouraged the audience to share their favorite national park memories.
“That was the first time we as a nation made a decision to set aside a piece of land and say we were not going to allow it to be developed and preserve it in perpetuity for future generations”, said Julena Campbell, Public Information Officer for the New River Gorge National River in West Virginia.
As the National Park Service expands its reach on the Schoodic Peninsula, the ripple effects are causing alarm in the intertidal zone around Acadia National Park.
Secretary Jewel says it’s important for the parks to be inclusive to everyone in the coming years.
“The National Park Service became responsible for writing the management plan to protect the river and then kind of like deputizing the local people to implement that plan”, said Akers.
To listen to the full story of the paddle down the river, click the audio player above.
He commented, “We’re facing a $12 billion backlog”. Today, there are 500 units of national battlefields, historic sites, wild and scenic rivers and wildlife refuges, including 59 national parks covering a total of 85 million acres. Next month two German friends will visit and I’ll introduce them to three National Parks.
“It was like lying in a great solemn cathedral, far vaster and more attractive than any built by the hand of man”, Roosevelt wrote after a 1903 presidential visit to California’s Yosemite National Park.
“The part that was the nicest was having someone so casually mention that, acknowledge the truth”, Smith said.
Jack Clarke, Mass Audubon’s director of public policy and a former park ranger at the Cape Cod National Seashore. An annual pilgrimage to Yosemite’s Sing Peak honors Chinese Americans.
(Marc Adamus/The Register-Guard via AP, File)., FILE – In this January 2006, file photo, the sun rises over Crater Lake, Ore., in Crater Lake National Park.
So, head on up, and enjoy your Grand Canyon! Conversations in the students’ cabins sometimes focus on frustrations about seemingly being the only black people in the park.
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Tester said, “I think it’s incumbent of on us in Congress to set aside the petty bickering and work on this issue”.
