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National Park Week – Community Connections

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The theme for today in this year’s national park week focuses on community connections. The national park service works not just within the park boundaries. The national park service works with communities in a variety of ways. Enjoy this short video explaining the involvement of NPS at the local community level. Click here for a short video. What can you do to ensure historic preservation, recreation, natural resource conservation, and education projects in your own community? Happy National Park Week! 

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National Park Week – Youth Engagement

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Today’s national park week theme focuses on youth engagement. National parks are places for fun, discovery, exploration, wellness, and service. Youth and young adult programs are designed to connect kids, teens, and young adults to opportunities at national park sites across the nation. These sites contribute to our nation’s rich natural, cultural, historical, and recreational resources. Enjoy this video about today’s theme! Click here for the video. Happy National Park Week!

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National Park Week – Workforce Wednesday

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Today’s theme is Workforce Wednesday. It focuses on all the many, many great individuals who make these parks run daily. These employees, interns, fellows, volunteers, contractors, partners and more all spend their valuable time and energy making these places great for us all! I am so grateful for these many people who each play an important role for national parks! These two photos show two different park rangers – one giving a park ranger presentation at Yellowstone National Park and the other showing us a sled dog puppy at Denali National Park. What’s your favorite memory with a park ranger ? Happy National Park Week!

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National Park Week – Innovation

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Today, the National Park Week looks at innovation. The national parks provide a great opportunity to learn about innovation. The definition of innovation is “a new idea, method, or device.”  Many of our national sites highlight varying types of innovation. Have you ever visited the Thomas Edison National Historic Park in New Jersey? At this national park site, visitors can step back in time to Thomas Edison’s home and laboratory, when machines were run by belts and pulleys and music was played on phonographs. You can discover where America’s greatest inventor changed our world forever. I have never been here, but would love to visit it! What innovative projects do you recall learning about in a national park? Happy National Park Week!  

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National Park Week – Volunteers

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Today’s theme for National Park Week focuses on volunteers. Volunteers support the National Park Service in its mission to preserve and protect our national parks. You can volunteer for a day or year-round; on your own or with friends and family; close to home or at a dream destination. Volunteer opportunities are available nationwide including in U.S. Territories. Visit this website to explore volunteer opportunities with the national park service by clicking here. Have you ever thought about volunteering for the national parks? Happy National Park Week!  

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National Park Week – Discovery

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Today’s theme encourages people to find something new by visiting a national park – to discover. I love to learn and discover something new while visiting national parks. The Ranger programs provide great opportunities for both children and adults to learn in greater detail about the park and its’ unique details. The visitor centers also provide a great resource for discovering something new. Stop in and enjoy some fun facts there! Talk to the Park Rangers and ask them some questions. If you can’t get to a national park today in person (it’s a free day), visit one virtually online. Explore it virtually! Whether you go in person or online, what might you discover in a national park? “Learning never exhausts the mind,” ~Leonardo da Vinci Happy National Park Week!

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Title Reveal

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Thank you for the guesses for the next book in the Erutuf National Park series! And now for the title reveal… Get ready for more adventures for Reese and Dean as they explore the valley section of Erutuf National Park! And yes, they will meet a bison. Bison Blog: An Erutuf National Park will be coming out on September 26th! Cover reveal coming soon! 🙂

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106 Years Old!

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Guess who’s turning 106 years old! The National Park Service! President Woodrow Wilson created the national park service (NPS) back on August 25, 1916. The act stated that the NPS “is to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wild life therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations.” Pick a park to visit and celebrate this important birthday of these amazing treasures! Happy 106th!

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