Sentences with phrase «as the national park service»

The findings come as the National Park Service considers whether to restrict snowmobile use for the sake of wildlife.

The results, published in the March issue of Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, show how bears» diets have changed over the years as the National Park Service took different approaches to managing bears and people in Yosemite.

Groups such as the National Park Service and the Earthwatch Institute, among others, help fund the research led by the Michigan Tech faculty.

August 25, 2016 • As the National Park Service celebrates its centennial, questions about its future remain.

A math skilled American is becoming such an endangered species that employers have become as assiduous at keeping them as the National Park Service is at rescuing wolves.

Second, it has extraordinary partners, such as the National Park Service.

As the National Park Service celebrates its Centennial in 2016, a major goal is to bring more diverse and younger visitors to the parks.

Fort Barry and Fort Cronkhite — whose structures now serve as National Park Service facilities — were once nerve centers of Marin Headlands military activities long ago.

As the National Park Service assumes management at Rancho, we will be working with the community, California State Parks, and San Mateo County Parks to improve trails, trailheads, and trail connections.

In the meantime, agencies such as the National Park Service, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and others are actively testing and applying control and eradication techniques, including trap development, refinement of visual searching methods, and testing detector dogs for locating pythons.

For the past seven years, I have given over 150 climate change talks as a National Park Service ranger, Toastmaster, Climate Reality Leader, teaching Climate Change 101 continuing education classes for St. Louis Community College, and a volunteer for Citizens» Climate Lobby.

TIP 2: The Bureau of Land Management (as well as the National Park Service, the US Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service) has wild land firefighting positions available through its Fire and Aviation program (headquartered at the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho).

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They believe too that a voluntary military and civilian national service program for young people would help alleviate the social disruption and teach important new skills and provide tutoring to disadvantaged students, help for the elderly, and improvements of public spaces such as parks and playgrounds.

The National Park Service (NPS) reports that 80 % of the money from admission fees goes directly towards projects that benefit visitors, such as maintenance and preservation efforts.

This means that they have to go into debt to finance nearly everything we think of as government, from fake airport security to the national parks to the Internal Revenue Service.

Similar to U.S. National Park Service officials» prior preference for peaceful herds of elks and an absence of «risky animals,» some monetary policymakers maintained a bias against market volatility, and they perceive removal of «unwanted volatility» as beneficial to financial markets to inadvertently reduced markets» risk tolerance.

With the aid of contributors like Save America's Treasures, the National Park Service renovated the church's sanctuary to resemble the years that King spent there as a pastor.

The Empire State Building has been recognized as an official landmark by the National Parks Services and the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission since the 1980s.

As the overseer of these food and beverage operations, the National Park Service ensures that concessioners are providing a great dining experience no matter what park one visPark Service ensures that concessioners are providing a great dining experience no matter what park one vispark one visits.

The Fox Valley Park District's track record for financial stewardship is outstanding, as recognized for many years by the National Recreation & Park Association (NRPA), the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) and Standard and Poor's Rating Services.

The center also serves as the visitor site for the National Park Service's Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor.

As we celebrate the centennial of the National Park Service (NPS) and its stewardship of the over 400 national parks, monuments, and recreation areas covering more than 84 million acres, the Arlington Heights Park District announces the launch of a new community - wide effort taking steps to end hunger for families locally and to put shoes on the feet of people around thNational Park Service (NPS) and its stewardship of the over 400 national parks, monuments, and recreation areas covering more than 84 million acres, the Arlington Heights Park District announces the launch of a new community - wide effort taking steps to end hunger for families locally and to put shoes on the feet of people around thnational parks, monuments, and recreation areas covering more than 84 million acres, the Arlington Heights Park District announces the launch of a new community - wide effort taking steps to end hunger for families locally and to put shoes on the feet of people around the world.

WHEATON — The Park District has been honored by the Midwest region of the National Park Service as the winner of its 1992 Land and Water Conservation Fund Innovation Award.

Roger Kennedy, who battled growing budget pressures and withstood congressional attempts to dismantle parts of the national park system, announced his resignation Monday as director of the National Park national park system, announced his resignation Monday as director of the National Park Servpark system, announced his resignation Monday as director of the National Park National Park ServPark Service.

The National Park Service, perhaps the only federal program to give Social Security serious competition as the most popular, is at a crossroads.

Senior House Natural Resources Committee Republicans sent their own letter Wednesday to National Park Service Director Jonathan Jarvis to ask him to «take steps as necessary to keep and not destroy documents related to the decision this week to restrict public access» to open - air memorials and monuments in the Washington area, including those honoring veterans of multiple wars, Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King.

Commenters on the site identified the ranger as Bill Line, spokesperson for the National Park Service.

He said he will partner with the city and the National Park Service to transform the area into what his State of the State book described as a «stunning new waterfront park (that) will provide unparalleled recreational opportunities.&raPark Service to transform the area into what his State of the State book described as a «stunning new waterfront park (that) will provide unparalleled recreational opportunities.&rapark (that) will provide unparalleled recreational opportunities.»

WASHINGTON — Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer on Monday called on the National Park Service to approve the former Niagara Machine and Tool Works Factory on Buffalo's East Side as a historic property so that the Northland Corridor Redevelopment Project can cash in on a key tax break before it is curtailed or rescinded.

Lawmakers, history buffs and conservation advocates got actors to dress up as Theodore Roosevelt (l.) and George Washington (r.) to call for funding to address the nearly $ 1 billion in deferred maintenance at National Park's Service (NPS) sites across the state.

At 10:30 a.m., U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson participates in special naturalization ceremony at Ellis Island for 62 citizenship candidates from 39 countries, held in honor of Memorial Day and as one of 100 naturalization ceremonies held in national parks this year in honor of the National Park Service's 100th anninational parks this year in honor of the National Park Service's 100th anniNational Park Service's 100th anniversary.

At at 11 a.m., Rep. Nydia Velazquez, the Brooklyn Historical Society, the Brooklyn Heights Association, National Parks Service, Landmarks Preservation Commission and community members host event to celebrate fifty years of Brooklyn Heights» designation as a National Historic Landmark and as New York City's first Historic District, Brooklyn Historical Society, 128 Pierrepont St., Brooklyn.

Schneiderman sent a letter seeking a review of regulations on gas drilling as proposed by the Delaware River Basin Commision, an interstate federal body led by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and includes the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the National Parks Service and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called on the National Park Service to approve the former Niagara Machine and Tool Works Factory on Buffalo's East Side as a historic property so that the Northland Corridor Redevelopment Project can cash in on a key tax break before it is curtailed or rescinded.

Work will put up temporary signs, modified signs and sign coverings throughout Yosemite National Park to reflect the new names assigned to some of the most popular attractions as a bitter dispute among the National Park Service, outgoing concessionaire Delaware North, of Buffalo, and the incoming vendor Aramark shows no sign of easing.

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Beyond the university - based experts who also came from Harvard and the University of Pittsburgh, U.S. symposium participants in Havana were from Memorial Sloan - Kettering Cancer Center, the Roswell Park Cancer Center, both in New York State, the Moffitt Cancer Center in Florida and the Ponce Research Institute in Puerto Rico, as well as the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, the National Cancer Institute, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention..

On the final day, the field team, along with excited members of the National Park Service and other spectators, nervously watched as the helicopter gently lifted the plaster jackets — some weighing a half of a ton or more — from the excavation site.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — When Jonathan Jarvis took over as director of the U.S. National Park Service (NPS) in 2009, he needed some advice.

The primary driver «We view this as the stage - setting event that has allowed more beetle events,» said David Thoma, a National Park Service ecologist studying factors behind the beetle outbreak.

Charles Cuvelier, who referred to the border wall as «part of a suite of solutions» and who works for the U.S. National Park Service as chief of law enforcement, security and emergency services, said that about 70 countries worldwide have chosen to build border walls.

Lead author, Capt. Leslie MacDonald, Sc.D., senior scientist in the U.S. Public Health Service, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, of the Centers for Disease Control, suggests that employees consider taking small steps to improve their overall cardiovascular health, including: • Going for a walk during lunch or other breaks • Parking farther away from destinations • Taking the stairs instead of elevators • Managing stress through breathing exercises or meditation • Bringing healthy snacks to work such as fruits, nuts and yogurt • Drinking water throughout the day

In particular, I was a Department of Commerce Science and Technology Fellow, serving as a member of the subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy for the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs and as a special director in the Office of Cultural Resources of the National Park Service.

Shaw expressed his intent to provide a gift of $ 1 million as initial funding for collaborative programs between the National Park Service, Schoodic Institute at Acadia National Park, AAAS, and other institutions.

These two guards of the Swiss National Parks Service are carrying young bearded vultures that they later released as part of a programme to reintroduce the birds to the Alps.

Matthew Dieterich, an award - winning astrophotographer from Houston, Texas, whose photo was selected by the U.S. Postal Service as a stamp to commemorate the National Park Service Centennial;

My work with Rick ended in what could be seen as a landmark historic meeting hosted by the U.S. embassy, in which Rick and I introduced genetic rescue opportunities to representatives of the Prime Minister's Office, the National Parks and Conservation Service, the National Heritage Fund, Mauritius University, Mauritius Oceanographic Institute, the non-governmental organization ECO-SUD, Durrell Wildlife Trust, Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corporation, and local Le Express newspaper.

To do it she and Kent Redford raised $ 160K from individuals and institutions such as The Nature Conservancy, Autodesk, and the National Park Service.

Eleven percent of the Earth's land habitats are now set aside as national parks to conserve their biodiversity and ecosystem services; in contrast, less than 0.1 % of the world's oceans are fully protected, the researchers point out.

March 7, 2016 • Overcrowding is one of the biggest challenges facing the National Park Service, and as the agency prepares to turn 100, another record - breaking year is predicted.