Basra memorial to Iraq war dead re-dedicated

2010-03-12T01:15:59Z

<div><p>A monument to the 179 Britons who died in the Iraq war and its aftermath was re-dedicated Thursday at the National Memorial Arboretum, having been brought back from Basra.</p><p>The Basra Memorial Wall remembers the 178 troops and one defence ministry civilian who died during Britain's six-year operation in Iraq following th...

Everglades Governor

2010-03-10T16:17:16Z

FILE- In this March 31, 2008 file photo, a dump truck works at the Everglades Agricultural Area Reservoir while sugarcane burns in the background near Belle Glade, Fla., Monday, March 31, 2008. The reservoir, which was part of a purchase plan by the state of Florida to restore the area to its natural state is at the cusp of collapse. A plan that overseas Everglades restoration is set to decide Th...

FLA EVERGLADES

2010-03-10T13:18:36Z

Map shows area of Fla., Everglades owned by U.S. Sugar Corp.

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Fla. gov fights for Everglades amid US Senate race

2010-03-10T13:16:08Z

<div id="subtitle">Florida governor fights to keep Everglades restoration on track amid tight US Senate race</div><div><p>A key part of Gov. Charlie Crist's political legacy is his grand plan to revive the dying Florida Everglades.</p><p>But the Republican's vision to restore the Eve...

Travel Trip Mount Sinai

2010-03-10T08:18:19Z

FILE - This Oct. 15, 2009 file photo shows Saint Catherine's Monastery, founded by the Emperor St. Justinian the Great in 527, at the foot of Mount Sinai in Saint Catherine, Sinai, Egypt. The monastery is Greek Orthodox and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. (AP Photo/Hussein Talal, File)

California Condor Egg

2010-03-09T13:48:43Z

This photo provided by the National Park Service shows a nesting California condor on Friday, March 5, 2010, in a cranny near the High Peaks Trail in Pinnacles National Monument, Calif. Biologists at Pinnacles are celebrating the first condor egg laid by a mating pair in more than a cent...

Zion NP plan aims at protecting natural sounds

2010-03-09T07:46:53Z

<div id="subtitle">Zion National Park wants plan to make sure natural sounds are protected</div><div><p>Planners at Zion National Park are starting to look at ways to preserve natural sounds.</p><p>It's part of an effort started several years by the National Park Service recognizing that sounds are integral to a park's c...

Police hunt for Teddy Roosevelt walrus tusk thief

2010-03-09T04:00:47Z

<div id="subtitle">Thief sneaks softly, carries a big walrus tusk out of Teddy Roosevelt's New York home</div><div><p>Authorities are hunting for the person who stole a 15-inch walrus tusk from Theodore Roosevelt's home on Long Island.</p><p>The superintendent of the Edgar Wayburn, ex-Sierra Club president who won Medal of Freedom, dies at 103</div><div><p>Dr. Edgar Wayburn, a five-term Sierra Club president who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom for working to preserve vast tracts of U.S. wilderness, has died. He was 103.<...

Congo group accuses soldiers of killing animals

2010-03-08T07:19:28Z

<div id="subtitle">Congo environmental group accuses soldiers of slaying rare wild animals in national park</div><div><p>An environmental group is accusing Congolese soldiers of killing more rare wild animals in a national park in Congo's volatile east.</p><p>Bantu Lukambo of Innovation for Development and Environmental Protection said Monday soldiers killed the animals in Virunga National P...

Zion National Park

2010-03-04T16:17:16Z

Utah's first National Park thrills visitors with brilliant hues and dramatic landscapes.

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Cherry Blossom Festival

2010-03-04T10:21:01Z

National Park Service Chief Horticulturalist Rob DeFeo announces the peak bloom dates for the 2010 National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, on Thursday, March 4, 2010. DeFeo announced that the cherry blossoms will be in bloom from March 31 through April 11, wit...

Park Service predicts peak for DC cherry blossoms

2010-03-04T10:15:43Z

<div id="subtitle">National Park Service predicts DC's peak cherry blossom bloom will start April 3</div><div><p>Those famous pink and white flowers in Washington are expected to bloom on schedule on trees around the nation's capital as soon as the end of March, the National Park Service predicted Thursday.</p><p>Horticultural...

Park Service predicts DC cherry blossom bloom

2010-03-04T08:33:09Z

<div id="subtitle">National Park Service predicts DC's peak cherry blossom bloom will start April 3</div><div><p>The National Park Service is hinting at when spring will arrive in Washington.</p><p>National Park Service Chief Horticulturalist Rob DeFeo announced Thursday that the cherry blossoms will be in bloom from March 31 through April 11. He is predicting the peak bloom period will ...

Australia Rare Frog Found

2010-03-04T05:46:06Z

In this undated photo provided by the New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service, a Yellow-spotted Bell Frog is captured in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales state of Australia. The species of frog thought to have been extinct for 30 years has been discovered ...

AP IMPACT: Drug gangs taking over US public lands

2010-03-01T19:15:41Z

<div id="subtitle">AP IMPACT: Mexican gangs take over US public lands for pot, smuggle immigrants to grow crops</div><div><p>Not far from Yosemite's waterfalls and in the middle of California's redwood forests, Mexican drug gangs are quietly commandeering U.S. public land to grow millions ...

Drug War Pot Farms

2010-03-01T12:15:15Z

In this photo taken Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2010, a Fresno County Sheriff's deputy walks past black irrigation pipe strewn across a terraced hill side that had once been a marijuana growing site in the Sequoia National Forest near Fresno, African Burial Ground National Monument, a unit of the National Park Service, New York, Tuesday Feb. 23, 2010. "You may come here to learn, but one must never forget you are standing ...

Maine seeks to stymie federal law on guns in parks

2010-02-24T14:45:18Z

<div id="subtitle">Maine debates whether to run around new federal law allowing guns in national parks</div><div><p>Lawmakers in Maine, home to one of the nation's most-visited national parks, are considering whether to override a new federal law that allows guns in the sanctuaries.</p><p>A law that took effect Monday lets licensed gun owners take firearms into national parks and wildlife refuges — provided state law d...

Travel Brief National Parks Visitation

2010-02-24T10:18:53Z

FILE - In this 2009, Aug. 16, file photo, President Barack Obama, his wife Michelle Obama, and daughters Malia Obama, 11, Sasha Obama, 8, with Interpretive Park Ranger Scott Kraynak look out over Hopi Point as they tour the

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