National Park Service News Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – July 9, 2010 Contact: David Barna (202) 208-6843 $1.2 Million Awarded to Preserve Battlefields National Park Service announces 25 grants WASHINGTON – More than $1.2 million in National Park Service grants will be used to help preserve and protect America’s significant battlefield lands. The funding from [...]

National Park Service Parktips – January 2010 Parktips is a monthly compilation of newsworthy items and story ideas from the National Park Service. A new edition is posted on the first week of each month at http://www.nps.gov/news/index.htm. Just click on the Story Leads link to access Parktips. You can view past issues of Parktips. You [...]

National Park Service News Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – December 11, 2009 Contact: Kathy Kupper (202)208-6843 National Park Service Honors Employees for Cultural Resources Work WASHINGTON – National Park Service Director Jon Jarvis today presented the 2008 Appleman-Judd-Lewis Awards for excellence in cultural resource management to H. Thomas McGrath, Jr., Dr. Jeanne Schaaf, and Robert [...]

National Park Service News Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – December 7, 2009 Contact: Kathy Kupper (202)208-6843 National Park Service Honors Employees for Cultural Resources Work WASHINGTON – The recipients of the 2008 National Park Service Appleman-Judd-Lewis Awards for excellence in cultural resource management are H. Thomas McGrath, Jr., Dr. Jeanne Schaaf, and Robert Fox. “This [...]

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