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 – July 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 For Immediate Release – June 17, 2010 Contact: David Barna, (202) 208-6843, David_Barna@nps.gov Jennifer Mummart, (202) 208-4986, Jennifer_Mummart@nps.gov First Lady Michelle Obama Asks Junior Rangers to Take It Outside at Our National Parks WASHINGTON – “Let’s Move Outside, Junior Rangers!” is First Lady Michelle Obama’s call to kids across the country this [...]

National Park Service Parktips – June 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 – May 14, 2010 Contact: Kathy Kupper (202) 208-6843 National Park Service Honors Outstanding Volunteers WASHINGTON –Throwing a 100th birthday celebration for the “Crown of the Continent” and removing over 33 tons of garbage from a park are Herculean feats. So too are engaging thousands of children [...]

Christmas Tree Worms, Guns, & More Parktips May 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 [...]

National Park Service Parktips – March 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 [...]

U.S. Department of the Interior News Release Date: February 6, 2010 Contact: Julie Rodriguez (202) 744-4368 Bob Miller (865) 436-1207 Secretary Salazar Announces Settlement on North Shore Road WASHINGTON, D.C. – Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced today that a settlement has been reached in a dispute begun in 1943 over a proposed 34-mile stretch of [...]

U. S. Department of the Interior                                                          Date: February 2, 2010                                         Contact: David Barna (202) 208-6843                                                 Hugh Vickery (202) 208-6416         Decades-Long Dispute over North Shore Road Close to Resolution          Secretary Salazar to Travel to North Carolina on Saturday         WASHINGTON, DC – On Saturday, February 6, Secretary [...]

National Park Service Parktips – November 2009 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 [...]