Posts Tagged ‘National Park Service’

Massive Great White shark dies following beaching on Cape Cod

     Dozens of holiday beach-goers formed a bucket brigade to try to save a mammoth great white shark that beached itself over the weekend on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, but the beast died, authorities said. At least 100 people at White Crest Beach for the Labor Day weekend rushed to help the 1-ton, 14-foot-long shark, which […]

Large fire sparked in Yosemite National Park

© National Park Service A 100-acre fire sparked in Yosemite National Park floats above mountain ranges Tuesday afternoon.      The smoke visible Tuesday in the Yosemite Valley is coming from the Tenaya Fire, which is located in Indian Canyon above the north rim of the Valley on both sides of the Lehamite trail, between the […]

Far below South Dakota, a cave holds pure, promising water

This 1982 photo provided by The National Park Service shows a park employee sitting on a rock in Calcite Lake at The Wind Cave National Park in the Black Hills of South Dakota. The underground lakes, which were discovered in the 1960s, aren’t home to any animal life but prominent cave microbiologist Hazel Barton has […]

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