ICYMI: Snow Removal Equipment: Do More With Less This Winter
Jessica Schwartz
Secretary Haaland Announces $61 Million to Increase Outdoor Opportunities in Urban Areas
The Outdoor Recreation Legacy Partnership grants are available to create new parks and trails, or substantially renovate existing parks, in 26 cities. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland and Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks Shannon Estenoz recently announced that $61.1 million in grant funding is now available to ...
More Resilient Species Is Now New National Christmas Tree
Even the National Park Service is picking more resilient trees for its installations these days. Ahead of the holiday season, the National Park Service (NPS) planted a new National Christmas Tree on the Ellipse in President’s Park. The new tree, a 27′ white fir (Abies Concolor) from Middleburg, PA was ...
Forest Service Helps Defend 9/11 Witness Trees From Insect Threat
By Melanie Brezniak Eastern Region, USDA Forest Service Twenty years have passed since the 9/11 attacks, yet there’s a feeling of permanence in a hemlock grove that stands where so many lives were lost that day in southwestern Pennsylvania. Here, the Flight 93 National Memorial draws visitors to the grove’s ...
Outdoor Recreation Legacy Partnership (ORLP) Grant Accepting Applications
Want to help an underserved community create more green spaces? The Department of the Interior today announced that the National Park Service will distribute $150 million to local communities through the Outdoor Recreation Legacy Partnership, or ORLP, grant program. The program, established in 2014, enables urban communities to create new outdoor recreation ...
National Park Service Requires Masks At Parks, Federal Buildings
To protect the health of those who live, work and visit U.S. national parks and facilities, and in support of President Biden’s Executive Order on Protecting the Federal Workforce and Requiring Mask-Wearing, the National Park Service (NPS) has implemented a mask requirement for employees, visitors, partners and contractors. “Wearing a ...
