Latest National Park Service Stories
SOMERSET COUNTY, Pa., April 20, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Governor Tom Corbett and First Lady Susan Corbett today visited the Flight 93 National Memorial in Somerset County to honor the sacrifice of the passengers and crew by presenting donated trees for the site. This is the second year of a major volunteer reforestation effort at the memorial that will eventually result in 150,900 new trees at the site. The plans for the memorial, operated by the National Park Service,...
Thirteen National Parks within the Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Heritage Area Generates More than $270 million in Non-local Visitor Spending Annually Waterford, Virginia (PRWEB) April 19, 2013 April 20-28 has been declared as National Park Week. Within the Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Heritage Area, a 180-mile long, 75-mile wide area stretching from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello in Charlottesville, Virginia, lies 13 of the...
LOUISVILLE, Colo., April 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The EchoStream® EN6080 Area Control Gateway (ACG) from Inovonics (www.inovonics.com) was recognized at the Security Industry Association's 2013 New Product Showcase (NPS), receiving honorable mention for the Intrusion Detection and Prevention Solutions Wireless Award at the NPS awards ceremony at ISC West on Wednesday. The newly launched EN6080 ACG is the industry's first PSIA (www.psialliance.org) compliant device that provides...
MENLO PARK, Calif., April 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- SRI International Sarnoff's Iris on the Move® (IOM) PassThru(TM) drive-up identification system was named Best in Biometrics, Identification and Credentialing by the Security Industry Association (SIA) New Product Showcase (NPS) at ISC West 2013. This is the fourth consecutive year that SRI Sarnoff products have been recognized for excellence by the Security Industry Association. The IOM PassThru is a multimodal biometric product...
New Line of Scents Builds Upon "The Craft of Fragrance" Platform PARSIPPANY, N.J., April 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Reckitt Benckiser's Air Wick® brand is celebrating National Park Week (April 20 - 28) with the announcement of six new limited edition fragrances that are inspired by the rare essence of our national parks and will be featured in its full range of air freshener products. With proceeds supporting philanthropic partner, the National Park Foundation (NPF), the official...
UC research finds mixed results when it comes to protection and preservation efforts in portions of the Grand Canyon National Park and in the Kaibab National Forest just outside the park. When surveying in the Upper Basin of the Grand Canyon National Park in April 2011, University of Cincinnati faculty and students discovered a previously unknown 17-room subterranean pueblo that likely dates back to the 12th century. For UC anthropology graduate student Ryan Washam, that find – in...
NFL Players Association Joins Team Supporting National Kids to Parks Day WASHINGTON, April 1, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The NFL Players Association (NFLPA) and National Park Trust (NPT) have joined forces to promote this year's National Kids to Parks Day scheduled for Saturday, May 18th. The NFLPA will join 17 national collaborators supporting the Third Annual National Kids to Parks Day. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130401/DC85224LOGO ) Last year more than...
Pine Brothers Softish Throat Drops provides cash donation WASHINGTON, March 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Pine Brothers Softish Throat Drops announces that it will contribute to the National Park Foundation, the official charity of America's national parks, to help support the 2013 White House Easter Egg Roll. The 2013 Easter Egg Roll, which takes place on April 1, 2013 on the South Lawn of the White House, is focused on promoting health and wellness with the theme, "Be Healthy, Be...
WASHINGTON, March 22, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Conservation and community leaders are celebrating President Barack Obama's commitment to designate five new national monuments on March 25. The new monuments will permanently protect historic lands and open space important for outdoor recreation. The Conservation Fund played a key role in two of the designations -- the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Monument in Maryland and the First State National Monument in...
Bipartisan Policy Center Bridge-Builder Series to Feature Senator Mark Udall Tomorrow WASHINGTON, March 18, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- With sequestration and general federal budget pressures threatening the National Park Service budget, the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) and National Park Hospitality Association (NPHA) will host a national dialogue about supplementary funding strategies for national parks at the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) on Tuesday, March 19...
