National Park Service

Students at Yosemite Institute are contributing to a long term database of snow depth measurements in Crane Flat Meadow. As well as learning survey techniques and data analysis, they play a direct role in monitoring climate change in Yosemite.

Despite record snowfall in the nation’s Capitol, Secretary Ken Salazar of the Department of the Interior braved the elements and this afternoon told the annual Corps Network Forum that his Department is committed to putting our nation’s youth to work on our public lands. And the Secretary is putting real numbers behind his commitment: increasing youth employment and education opportunities in 2010 by 50 percent over 2009 figures and in 2011 by 60 percent.

In Shelton's words, "I learned the wilderness has an edge, and that things might not always turn out okay out there. It made me listen, smell, and hear like I never thought possible." The life transformation Shelton experienced on his journey...

Director of the National Park Service, Jon Jarvis, announced Tuesday that Yosemite National Park will be getting a new superintendent. Don Neubacher, currently Superintendent of Point Reyes National Seashore, will be moving to the Yosemite superintendent post in the next few months

Next week I am privileged to be participating in a groundbreaking conference, Advancing the National Park Idea: A Discussion of the Second Century Commission Report on the Future of the National Parks, at the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy at the University of Tennessee. 

Here at NatureBridge we’re always looking for new ways to expand our reach and help our students maintain the connections they make to nature after they’ve returned home from our programs. And we are always looking for ways to leverage broadcast and Internet technology to support our efforts. So when we saw this fantastic program, we just we had to tell you about it. We think it is really cool.