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June of 2009

 

Rate Volunteers tackle river valley invaders

Original at St. George Daily Spectrum external link    Tue, Jun 9

 UT Where tamarisk was eradicated in Death Valley National Park, native species were allowed to grow, water returned to wetland areas and wildlife thrived again. Ty Smith, left, and Cresent Crandall drag away a tamarisk tree they uprooted. ...

Rate Luxury train cars purchased for use in national parks

Original at USA Today external link    Tue, Jun 9

Xanterra has properties in Death Valley National Park, Calif., Grand Canyon National Park, Ariz., Yellowstone National Park, Wyo., Mount Rushmore National Memorial, SD, Bryce Canyon and Zion national parks, Utah, and Crater Lake National Park, Ore., ...

Rate National Park Service to offer three fee-free weekends

Original at KTNV Las Vegas external link    Wed, Jun 3

 NV The National Park Service is offering fee-free weekends at hundreds of parks across the country. Included on the list are two parks right here in Southern Nevada: Death Valley National Park and the Lake Mead National Recreation Area.

Rate Landing at the Chicken Strip, Saline Valley Warm Springs, CAVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at bcast.co.nz external link    Sun, May 31

This 1500 foot long gravel strip serves the Saline Valley Warm Springs in Death Valley National Park, CA ... "chicken strip" "saline valley ... www.bcast.co.nz

May of 2009

 

Rate CERCA CALENDAR - Las Vegas Review

Original at Las Vegas Review-Journal external link    Sun, May 31

Las Vegas Review - Journal, NV June 19-20, Death Valley National Park, Calif.: Scotty's Castle Organ Concert. Jonas Nordwell will play the famous pipe organ in the music room. Reservations necessary. 7 pm Death Valley Natural History Association, (760) 786-2146, www.dvnha.org. ...

Rate Mesquite Sand Dunes at Dawn, Death Valley National Park, Cal

Original at good-times.webshots.com external link    Tue, May 26

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Rate Visitation for Jay Haverstick to be held in his restaurant

Original at Dayton Daily News external link    Sat, May 23

 OH Mr. Haverstick, 69, was found dead Wednesday, May 20, in Death Valley National Park, California, after he failed to return from an early-morning photo shoot the previous day, May 19. His body was found in the “Sand Dunes” region in the central part of ...

Rate Camping: the horror

Original at Crain's Chicago Business external link    Sat, May 23

 IL We'd go to a campground in a state or national park, set up our tent and then find ourselves next to the partiers." Several years ago, the Rockeys went to Death Valley National Park in California and camped at Furnace Creek. It was the last weekend of ...

Rate Ohio restaurateur dies hiking in Death Valley

Original at San Jose Mercury News external link    Thu, May 21    5 related articles

AP DAYTON, Ohio—An Ohio restaurant owner has died while hiking in California's Death Valley National Park. Park spokesman Terry Baldino says a California Highway Patrol helicopter spotted the body of 69-year-old Jay Haverstick on Wednesday, ...

Rate Park service attorney defends Amargosa water rights protests

Original at Pahrump Valley Times external link    Wed, May 13

 NV Fahmy, who works for the National Park Service, vehemently defended the protests, designed to protect the Devil's Hole pupfish and springs, at Death Valley National Park, during a speech at the annual Devil's Hole workshop at the Furnace Creek Visitors ...

Rate Death Valley could start right here

Original at Pahrump Valley Times external link    Fri, May 8

 NV The new chief at Death Valley National Park is saying about what I said a year or two ago, and we'll see if anyone in Pahrump takes notice, or if the effort is more than it can handle. Sarah Craighead spoke this past week about Death Valley partnering ...

Rate Charles Manson's Hide-Away Gutted in Suspicious Fire

Original at LA Weekly Play external link    Fri, May 8

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 CA By Christine Pelisek in crime Charles Manson's former remote hide-out has been gutted in a suspicious fire, according to the Death Valley National Park Service. Authorities are not sure whether Barker Ranch, famous for being Manson's last home before ...

Rate Charles Manson's last hideout burns in California

Original at google.com external link    Thu, May 7

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DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — A California desert cabin that became cult leader Charles Manson's last hideout has been gutted by fire. Death Valley National Park spokesman Terry Baldino said Thursday that the isolated cabin was discovered ...

April of 2009

 

Rate Tagito launches to sell your expertise — in anything

Original at The Industry Standard external link    Tue, Apr 28

 CA For example, you can buy a map of Death Valley National Park for $3.25, tips for lowering blood pressure for $5.10, or analysis of the European Union's expansion for the bargain price of 30 cents. In fact, most of the documents posted to the site sound ...

Rate Tagito launches to sell your expertise — in anything

Original at VentureBeat external link    Tue, Apr 28

For example, you can buy a map of Death Valley National Park for $3.25, tips for lowering blood pressure for $5.10, or analysis of the European Union's expansion for the bargain price of 30 cents. In fact, most of the documents posted to the site sound ...

Rate National Park Service Raises Concerns About Solar Projects in ...

Original at Greentech Media external link    Thu, Apr 23

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projects that have been proposed for development on BLM land in Nevada could pose serious threats to the habitat of the Lake Mead National Recreational Area, Mojave National Preserve and the Devils Hole section of the Death Valley National Park. ...

Rate Park Service Protests Big Solar Expansion in Nevada Desert - Common Dreams

Original at commondreams.org external link    Mon, Apr 20

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Jarvis cites potential negative impacts for Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Mojave National Preserve, and the Devils Hole section of Death Valley National Park. "The NPS asserts that it is not in the public interest for BLM to approve plans of ...

Rate Death Valley national park, California - Ubehebe CraterVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at fr.truveo.com external link    Mon, Apr 13

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Windy day on the rim of the Ubehebe Crater in DEVA. An unusual addition to the great variety of geological features in Death Valley National Park ... fr.truveo.com

March of 2009

 

Rate Amargosa River wild and scenic status awaits Obama's signature

Original at Pahrump Valley Times external link    Fri, Mar 27

 NV This ribbon of green amid one of the harshest environments on earth is now being recognized as a lifeline for rare and endangered species and as a critical source of water for Death Valley National Park and its gateway communities. ...

Rate House OKs historic public lands measure - Las Vegas Review

Original at Las Vegas Review-Journal external link    Thu, Mar 26    9 related articles

Las Vegas Review - Journal, NV Another provision in the lands bill confers Wild and Scenic River status on a 25-mile section of the Amargosa River at the eastern edge of Death Valley National Park. Supporters of the measure expect it to bring new protections to the only river that ...

Rate Feinstein's Desert Desire Has the Green Sector Seeing Red

Original at LAist external link    Wed, Mar 25

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 CA It established Death Valley National Park, Joshua Tree National Park and the Mojave National Preserve. It remains the largest parks and wilderness bill to impact the lower 48 states. Feinstein has approached Sec. of the Interior Ken Salazar to bring ...

Rate Parks film features students - Las Vegas Review

Original at Las Vegas Review-Journal external link    Sat, Mar 21

Las Vegas Review - Journal, NV The school has made an effort to expose the students to natural wonders, taking them on field trips to geological sites like the Great Unconformity at Frenchman Mountain and Valley of Fire State Park. Students' exploration of Death Valley National Park ...

Rate 'Lucky' runners race into pre-spring March 14

Original at knox.VillageSoup.com external link    Thu, Mar 5

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 ME This is a scenic wilderness trail run on a gravel jeep road from Beatty, Nev. through the picturesque Titus Canyon, to the finish in Death Valley (the entire run is in Death Valley National Park), Brower said. "One could see snow capping the mountain ...

Rate Wildflowers, Cherry Blossoms Show Promising Start

Original at LAist external link    Tue, Mar 3

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 CA Over at Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, "the flowers are really out," park officials write on their website. Further north in Death Valley National Park, it's still too early (.pdf). But things move fastly. Like they say at the Antelope Valley ...

Rate Tour operators work to stay profitable during recession - Las Vegas Review

Original at Las Vegas Review-Journal external link    Sun, Mar 1

Las Vegas Review - Journal, NV Reed's company operates high-end tours to destinations including the Grand Canyon, Hoover Dam, Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area and Death Valley National Park, among others. Earlier this year Pink Jeep took delivery of 15 new, 10-passenger ...

February of 2009

 

Rate U.Va. Students Opt for Community Service During Spring Break - Media Newswire

Original at media-newswire.com external link    Wed, Feb 25

Media Newswire (press release), NY Dickson will travel to Death Valley National Park in California to install grills at campsites and maintain trails. "I have always been intrigued by the Western landscape," he said. "The National Park Service is great to work with and the work needs to ...

Rate Los Angeles Getting 140000 New LED Streetlights

Original at Red, Green, and Blue external link    Mon, Feb 23

 CA “If you have ever been to Death Valley National Park and looked up on a clear night, you would see that the stars seem to be dimmer than they were when I was a child. But they are not getting dimmer, really–the rest of the sky is getting brighter ...

Rate Travel Log: Fontana

Original at Nascar external link    Wed, Feb 18

 - Traveling east 76 miles takes one to the lowest point in the continental United States, Badwater in Death Valley National Park (282 feet below sea level). ...

Rate Blooms a winter bounty in desert

Original at Press-Enterprise external link    Sun, Feb 15

 CA - Feb 15, 2009 The prospects for a colorful early spring also are good at one of the nation's driest spots: Death Valley National Park. A recent storm dropped 1 to 2 ...

Rate 'Road' claim is questioned

Original at Pahrump Valley Times external link    Wed, Feb 11

 NV Efforts by Inyo County, Calif., to acquire a half-mile of alleged road in the northern reaches of Death Valley National Park may, in the end, determine whether a law from the 19th century can upstage the much more recent Wilderness Act, enacted in 1964 ...

Rate Contact info for California's national parks, monuments and ...

Original at Los Angeles Times external link    Sun, Feb 1

Contact info for California's national parks, monuments and ...  CA - Feb 1, 2009 Death Valley National Park, California 190, Visitors Center, PO Box 579, Death Valley, CA 92328; (760) 786-3200, fax (760) 786-3283, www.nps.gov/deva. ...

January of 2009

 

Rate Joshua Tree charity donates 10000th acre to Park Service

Original at Hi-Desert Star external link    Sat, Jan 31

 CA - Jan 31, 2009 The land trust has given land to Joshua Tree National Park, the Mojave National Preserve and Death Valley National Park through 183 transactions at a cost ...

Rate On Foot: Warm Spring Camp was one woman's domain

Original at Enterprise-Record external link    Mon, Jan 26

On Foot: Warm Spring Camp was one woman's domain  CA - Jan 26, 2009 DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK — I would love to have known Louise Grantham, a businesswoman who 80 years ago ran a talc mining operation in a remote canyon on ...

Rate Easy living in forbidding Death Valley

Original at San Francisco Chronicle external link    Fri, Jan 23

  USA - Jan 23, 2009 The Old Ranger and the 20-mule teams that hauled borax out of the desert are history, but Death Valley National Park reigns as a place of superlatives. ...

Rate Editorial: A chance to rebuild our national parks

Original at Sacramento Bee external link    Tue, Jan 6

California has many of those projects: $10.1 million for the Valley Loop Road at Yosemite National Park; $8.5 million to replace water tanks and provide fire suppression at Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks; $11.2 million for the main road through Death Valley National Park. The list...

December of 2008

 

Rate TRIP OF THE WEEK: Ash Meadows great place to get in touch with nature - Las Vegas Review

Original at Las Vegas Review-Journal external link    Sun, Dec 28

TRIP OF THE WEEK: Ash Meadows great place to get in touch with nature Las Vegas Review - Journal, NV - Popular stops include Crystal Spring, Crystal Reservoir, Point of Rocks, King Spring and Devil's Hole, a detached portion of Death Valley National Park. ...

Rate On Foot: Walking among the mysterious moving rocks

Original at Enterprise-Record external link    Sun, Dec 28

 CA - Dec 28, 2008 DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK — The one thing I wanted to see most was always too far out of reach. I'd read about the mysterious moving rocks of The Racetrack ...

Rate California says Yucca poses threat to people, resources - Las Vegas Review

Original at Las Vegas Review-Journal external link    Wed, Dec 24

California says Yucca poses threat to people, resources Las Vegas Review - Journal, NV - These springs are the only source of water for the park workers and the approximately 1.25 million annual visitors to Death Valley National Park," ...

Rate Death Valley – The Beauty Behind The Mythical Name ...

Original at Emailwire external link    Mon, Dec 22

 - Dec 22, 2008 The Death Valley National Park was established as a national monument in 1933 and has long been prized for its unique wildlife and desert beauty. ...

Rate Y2Kyoto: Death Valley Solar Photovoltaic Facility Dedication Event

Original at small dead animals external link    Thu, Dec 18

By Kate Because of the winter storm and several road closings in the area, the December 16, 2008 dedication of the solar photovoltaic system in Death Valley National Park has been cancelled." (Also postponed: What happens in Vegas and surfing in Malibu.)...

Rate Former Sequoia-Kings Canyon Park chief honored

Original at Central Valley Business Times external link    Fri, Dec 12

 CA - Dec 12, 2008 resources owned by the American people including Yosemite National Park, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, Death Valley National Park, ...

Rate Harmony Borax Works, Death Valley National Park

Original at About.com Camping external link    Thu, Dec 11

Photo of Harmony Borax Works, Death Valley National Park. This gallery features photos taken by campers of campground scenes, their campsite or cooking area, their RV or tent, or anything about their camping trip. All campers are welcome to submit their camping photos.

November of 2008

 

Rate Death Valley: Winter’s Warm and Affordable Wonderland

Original at GlamScene external link    Tue, Nov 25

 NY - Nov 25, 2008 and a suntan over a wind burn–not to mention savings over spending–consider California’s Death Valley National Park where hiking, swimming, golfing, ...

Rate California’s Abandoned Mines Pose Premises Liability Risk

Original at California Car Accident and Injury Lawyer external link    Mon, Nov 10

By rreeves There’s more than desert fauna and sand dunes at Death Valley National Park, and judging from a recent Los Angeles Times report, the chance of a premises liability lawsuit against federal authorities is not such a remote possibility. The park is home to thousands of abandoned mines, many...

Rate "Death Valley Struggles To Make Abandoned Mines Safe"

Original at SEJ Environmental Journalism Today external link    Thu, Nov 6

Reporting from Death Valley National Park -- Here in ghostly Skidoo, the holes and tunnels are everywhere, nearly a thousand of them puncturing mountains and cratering the desert. Cold winds blow through darkened shafts. ...

Rate Death Valley National Park (2008-11-01)

Original at City Journalist Directory external link    Fri, Oct 31

Death Valley National Park spans a total of 3367627 acres across Saline Valley, Panamint Valley and Death Valley in California and parts of Nevada. Proclaimed in 1933 (though not officially designated as a national park until 1994), ...

Year 2008

 

Rate The Flora, Fauna and Ghosts of Death Valley National Park

Original at Enjoy Last Minute Travel Tips external link    Wed, Oct 29    2 related articles

Death Valley is not your typical American National Park. It’sa region of extremes… extreme temperatures… extreme geology… extreme history… extreme scenery. Death Valley National Park could be considered a rebel amongst Americas National ...

Rate Death Valley & Lone Pine

Original at Travel Blog | Travel Journals, Diaries and Photos external link    Thu, Oct 23

Eventually we were on our way back to California through the very hot and baron Nevada Desert. We kept our eyes open for Area 51 but were unsuccessful in finding it. We arrived at Death Valley National Park around 2.30pm, ...

Rate Death Valley National Park to Re-activate Towne Pass Materials ...

Original at DesertUSA external link    Fri, Oct 3

By NewsBlog Notice of Decision - Following a 13-year hiatus, the National Park Service (NPS) will permit the resumption of use of Towne Pass Materials Site #218 (MS #218)

Rate The Abandoned Keane Wonder Mine at Death Valley National Park is ...

Original at National Parks Traveler external link    Tue, Sep 23

By Bob Janiskee Citing serious safety hazards, the National Park Service has barred public access to the abandoned Keane Wonder Mine site at Death Valley National Park. The old mine site, which has already claimed one visitor’s life, is loaded with ...

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