While most of us play in our vast system of 63 national parks, others work there. Today, on National Park Service Founders Day, we recognize their efforts and the priceless gift of our country"s national parks. The NPS protects and maintains these parks as well as hundreds of national monuments and other natural, historical, and recreational properties. They include some of our most stunning natural landscapes, like North Cascades National Park in Washington state, featured here. This image, of the Triplets and Cascade Peak, is taken from atop Forbidden Peak.
National Park Service Founders Day
Today in History
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Jane’s Carousel delights
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Hanging out on a limb
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World Reef Awareness Day
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Autumn comes to Old Town
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Pollinators: not to be sneezed at
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Southern right whales sail home to South Africa
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Petroglyphs near Fruita in Capitol Reef National Park, Utah
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Tasmans Arch, Tasmania, Australia
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World Honey Bee Day
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Polar bear season in Manitoba
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Playa del Amor, Marietas Islands, Mexico
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A showcase for future fame
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Big Bend National Park anniversary
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Mountain goats
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Dalmatian pelicans, Lake Kerkini, Greece
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Green is the new black
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World Elephant Day
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The snows of Fuji
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National Gardening Week
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At the shore of an inland sea
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Fall comes to the Last Frontier
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The Giants Causeway, Northern Ireland
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Travel Sunday: Liverpool
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A little blue
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Happy 800th, Salisbury Cathedral
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Roman theater of Cartagena, Spain
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An historic forest
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Perseid meteor shower over Nevada
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Installation art turns heads
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Winter solstice
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