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  • Greetings from Glacier National Park

    Our first trip to Montana with the express purpose of going to Glacier National Park. We traveled with our best friends and it remains one of our most memorable trips. The beauty and majesty is almost too hard to take in!

  • Greetings from Death Valley National Park

    My eyes open and I turn slowly in bed only to notice that sometime during the night, I’d pulled up the blanket around me for warmth. The relentless heat is subsiding; that repressive air that makes you feel that you are living in an oven is cooling. Air conditioning units…

  • Greetings from Grand Teton National Park

    Visiting the Tetons while on a two-month long cross country roadtrip was the solidifying moment in which I knew how precious our country's wild places are. America is covered is such amazing and diverse history, landscape, and wildlife and upon seeing this grandeur, of which I'd never seen the likes…

  • Greetings from Yosemite National Park

    Over the years I have visited many of our National Parks. Parklands are being threatened today by corporations greedy for the resources these lands possess. That must never happen. I've always realized the sacredness of protected land and even more so after watching a video about Yosemite and other parklands…

  • Greetings from Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park

    I grew up along the C & O Canal and my family still lives just a few minutes away. It's an incredible place to have immediate access to when you live in a suburb. I hope that all future generations can love and appreciate the wildlife, hiking trails, trees, river,…

  • Greetings from Grand Teton National Park

    We went out to Wyoming for a wedding and stayed in Jackson Hole. Traveled throughout the Lower Loop of Yellowstone for a 12 hour day. Horseback riding through the Grand Tetons on our marvelous horses with our very kind and knowledgeable guide past the Ox Bow River will be a…

  • Greetings from Glacier National Park

    My 87 year old father, Gerald Bosacker loved Glacier National Park. He wrote this poem "Environmental Warning" before he passed in March. Yesterday, 12-16-18 I was with my family at Lake McDonald in Glacier National Park and took several photos of the pristine water and the majestic mountains. The poem…

  • Greetings from Harpers Ferry National Historical Park

    As an historian, I value the historic parks as well as the recreational and scenic parks. The National Park Service does a wonderful job of interpreting and preserving these national treasures ... while fighting for adequate funding

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