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  • Greetings from Redwood National & State Parks

    I spent my first years of college in the early 1970s in the Redwood Region of California and did not return until my wife and I visited Redwood National Park in 2011. This picture is of my wife displaying the usual reaction of most people when they first get up…

  • Greetings from Joshua Tree National Park

    It was my first trip to the desert, being from New England the landscape was mesmerizing. Two notable memories. 1) the plants made me feel like I was walking on the bottom of the ocean. It could very well have been covered in water at some point in time. 2)…

  • Greetings from Glacier National Park

    It was summer 1963 and I was three and a half years old. In a few months President Kennedy would be assassinated, followed in six weeks by the birth of my little brother. But it was our driving trip from our home in Minnesota through Montana and to Glacier National…

  • Greetings from Grand Canyon National Park

    I spent over $4,000 and a year of planning to stay in both the North and South Rims. Because of the government shutdown, I was denied access to both. Your organizations needs to work to stop this "hostage taking" of our national parks system. I am so angry and sad.…

  • Greetings from Bandelier National Monument

    I am the meeting and visitor bureau director for Los Alamos, NM. Bandelier National Monument is a premier attractions that our local tourism industry thrives upon. The Valles Caldera National Preserve is also a major attraction to our area towns. Los Alamos is the Eastern gateway to the Jemez Mountain…

  • Greetings from John Day Fossil Beds National Monument

    I spent a full year planning a college course around the Olympic National Park, including a field trip of 4 days of camping and hiking. The shutdown happened just 4 days before we were to leave campus. It was clear we would have no access at all to the park…

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