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JTNP Seeks Comments on Off-Highway Vehicle Restoration Grant Application

JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK, Twentynine Palms, California – Joshua Tree National Park is inviting the public to comment on its 2016/17 preliminary restoration grant application to the California State Parks Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation (OHMVR) Division. The proposed project aims to restore and protect resources from unauthorized off-highway vehicle (OHV) use in the park. Illegal OHV

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Zion National Park Announces Schedule of 2017 Climbing Closures

SPRINGDALE, UT – Climbing routes on cliffs used by nesting Peregrine Falcons in Zion National Park will be temporarily closed beginning March 1, 2017 in order to protect these birds which are in recovery from “endangered species” status. The closure date is based on analysis of data collected from 2001-2016 regarding the peregrines’ arrival time

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Tumacácori O’odham Tash

Tumacácori National Historical Park protects the ruins of a Spanish colonial mission to the native O’odham people. It is the O’odham residents of this community who formed and laid the bricks of the church, tilled the fields, and wrangled the mission livestock. Their culture and traditions live on today, focused in the lands of the

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What are Coyotes Eating? Conejo Valley Locals Sought to Help Analyze Coyote Scat

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. — Over a decade ago, National Park Service researchers collected coyote scat from 14 sites in and around the Conejo Valley. They wanted to understand the diet of local coyotes. Researchers are now going back to those same sites to repeat the study and see what has–or has not–changed.

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