We were so giddy about Al Gore and his team’s recent Nobel Peace Prize win that we had to come up with a National Park topic week in his honor. We could have looked at the Park sites that honor Presidents who won the Nobel but that correlation wouldn’t have been completely accurate. So instead [...]
Archive for October, 2007
Natural Disaster Week: Mount Rainier National Park
Posted in National Parks, tagged Al Gore, Natural Disasters, Volcano, Washington State on October 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Natural Disaster Week: Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore
Posted in Uncategorized on October 17, 2007 | 1 Comment »
We were so giddy about Al Gore and his team’s recent Nobel Peace Prize win that we had to come up with a National Park topic week in his honor. We could have looked at the Park sites that honor Presidents who won the Nobel but that correlation wouldn’t have been completely accurate. So instead [...]
Natural Disaster Week: Mount Saint Helens National Volcanic Monument
Posted in National Monument, tagged Natural Disaster on October 15, 2007 | 2 Comments »
We were so giddy about Al Gore and his team’s recent Nobel Peace Prize win that we had to come up with a National Park topic week in his honor. We could have looked at the Park sites that honor Presidents who won the Nobel but that correlation wouldn’t have been completely accurate. So instead [...]
Native American Heritage Week: Nez Perce National Historical Park
Posted in Uncategorized on October 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Last week we began a series on Native American heritage National Park Sites. These sites are often forgotten because a) they’re often located in the middle of nowhere; b) they commemorate the distant pre-Columbian past; and c) unlike battlefield sites, there is no date to commemorate their occurance. Our first stops were New Mexico’s Aztec [...]
