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National Park Service Celebrates Centennial

The festival celebrates the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service as well as the 75th anniversary of the completion of Mount Rushmore. About 30 booths were at Main Street Square.

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On Thursday morning she will tour Glacier National Park with scientists and stakeholders to spotlight climate change and its effects the park’s namesake glaciers and other resources.

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Fields most recently served as the chief of interpretation and education for the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park and Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve. “Rising seas could destroy vital ecosystems in the Everglades, even threaten Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty“. “Rising temperatures could mean no more glaciers in Glacier National Park, no more Joshua trees in Joshua Tree National Park”, Obama said. In that role, he helped launch the agency’s Every Kid in a Park initiative and expanded the Centennial Volunteer Ambassador program. The superintendent is in the midst of his year-long Smokies Hike 100 Challenge, in which he is encouraging people, including children, to hike 100 miles in the Smokies with him in honor of the NPS Centennial.

KBSX reporter Frankie Barnhill at Montana's breath-taking Glacier National Park