#national park service

[hometoursandotherstuff]

#national park service #other stuff

[yayxstitch]

The National Park Service has released crochet/knit patterns! The triops is my favorite.

Here's their Ravelry:

But wait there's more if Ravelry isn't your thing:

#crochet #free pattern #national park #national park service #knitting

[todaysdocument]

Is reading cursive writing your superpower?

Join a special transcription challenge featuring Revolutionary War Pension Files!

Image description: One half of image is a form from a Revolutionary War pension file, filled out in cursive writing. The other side says "can you read this? Help us transcribe pension files of the first veterans of the US military." There's the same link as in this post, and the National Archives logo.

#archivesgov #RevWarVets #American Revolution #Revolutionary War #cursive #transcription #National Park Service #military #pension

[emilybeemartin]

Hey! Hey, would you like to be a park ranger?

USA Jobs just posted a bunch of national park ranger positions for summer 2024--everything from small historic sites to the big flagship parks like Yellowstone and Yosemite. These are seasonal positions specifically for interpretive rangers, which means you begin around May-ish and end around September-October-ish. Interpretation is the branch of the NPS that does educational programming and frontline visitor services, like working in the visitor centers, leading guided walks and talks, and just generally interacting with the public in a friendly, helpful way.

If you have a four-year college degree in just about any subject (honestly, I've worked with people with degrees ranging from theater to business to geoscience), or 12 months' relevant work experience (customer service, retail, education, camp counseling, etc), or a combination of the two, you're eligible to apply. All you need is a resume and transcripts if you're using education to qualify.

Just go to USAJobs.gov and search for "park ranger interpretation" in the search bar. The key things you're looking for in the results are listings from the National Park Service, the code GS 5 (which is the entry level for this position), and the phrase Not to Exceed 1039 hours (which indicates it's a seasonal position).

Some tips!

>Each application requires you to answer a questionnaire about your experience with things like customer service, preparing educational programs, researching scientific topics, etc. Be generous with yourself on these, because other folks will be. Even if you don't think you're an "expert" in something, consider your past work creatively. Have you presented research projects in class? Have you worked retail? Can you keep up a professional demeanor when somebody's upset? You have the qualifications. Rate yourself as such.

>Be thorough and specific in your resume. The NPS isn't a one-pager resume organization. They need to see evidence that you have the qualifications you say you do. The best way to ensure this is to copy, word for word, the phrases in the above questionnaire and insert them in the relevant places in your resume. So if the questionnaire says "Can you research, prepare, and present scientific information to a lay public," go to the appropriate place in your resume and write "I researched, prepared, and presented scientific information to my peers" or something similar. I kid you not, my current resume is ten pages long.

>Cover letters are optional but helpful! There are lots of templates online to help you write one; be sure to be professional. Mine is around 250 words and has three short paragraphs:

1- Position I'm applying for

2- Quick summary of most relevant work/education experience

3- Additional skills/rizz that makes me stand out (for me it's writing/illustrating, which helps me create visitor programs)

>Two things the NPS loves that will boost you are foreign language skills and being a US military veteran. Highlight these elements if you have them.

>Are you a schoolteacher? Check out the Teacher-Ranger-Teacher program.

>The big flashy parks are posted as standalone listings, but most of the others are bundled into "Multiple Locations" that are based on region. Consider applying for many of these smaller monuments and historic sites---they get far fewer applicants and are easier to secure. And many are absolutely beautiful. Want to work at Arches? Also apply to Natural Bridges. Want to work in Yellowstone? Also try Lassen Volcanic. Prefer history over science? You have dozens of amazing options from every facet of American history.

>Apply today! Apply now! Many of these parks cap their applicants because they get so many, and the rest will close after a week or so. A glance at the ones that were posted today and yesterday show them either closing on October 15 or 22. Some regions haven't posted yet, so keep checking the website in the next few weeks.

I love my work as a park ranger---it's such a rewarding way to spend a summer (or two, or ten), and it can open doors to other things. You won't get rich, but you will make great friends and great memories, add a killer section to your resume, and spend four months immersed with smart, passionate people in some of the coolest places in the US.

Plus you get a SICK HAT

#jobs #national park service #park ranger #job search #job seekers

[fridaybear]

Happy Friday, pals. 🐻 The weekend is arriving in style. We're glad you're here. Maybe your weekend be as amazing as you are. :) - - - - - - - - - - -

"Bear Behind" by Western Arctic National Parklands is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

#bear #friday #friday bear #fridaybear #cute #animals #nature #wildlife #outdoors #wild #grizzly #grizzly bear #grizzlybear #brown #brown bear #🐻 #wildness #autumn #national park service #western arctic national park

[wandering-jana]

Pueblo Bonito, in Chaco Canyon, was occupied from 828 and 1126 CE. It was the largest of the great houses in what may have been a ceremonial center.

Explore Chaco:

#travel #architecture #history #wandering #original photography #chaco canyon #archaeology #ancestral puebloans #ancient architecture #native american #new mexico #chaco culture #national park service #national park #lensblr #photography #wanderingjana

[arthistoryanimalia]

#WoodpeckerWednesday:

Walter Alois Weber (American, 1906-1979)

Ivory-Billed Woodpeckers, late 1930s

Oil on canvas, W 61.2, L 45.7 cm

National Park Service, Museum Management Program WASOA 25

#animals in art #20th century art #birds in art #bird #birds #woodpecker #Woodpecker Wednesday #ivory-billed woodpecker #natural history art #wildlife art #National Park Service #painting #oil painting #Walter Alois Weber

[mapsontheweb]

Administrative regions of the National Park Service.

#maps #us #national parks #national park service

[stone-cold-groove]

Vintage travel poster from 1938 - Sequoia National Park.

#vintage posters #vintage illustration #sequoia national forest #sequoia national park #national parks #national park service #giant sequoia #grove of the giants

[unimatrix-420]

#lol #funny #twitter #hiking #camping #outdoors #bears #friends #friendships #national park service #lol tweets #funny tweets #random #spring

[hometoursandotherstuff]

#national park service #other stuff

[mltrefry-ficwriter]

Was not expecting Nation Park Service to be OFMD fans

#our flag means death #ofmd #blackbonnet #gentlebeard #national park service

[strawlessandbraless]

Shout out to the National Park Service for doing the work 🌲 🏔️ 🦅🌵🦌🍄🍂🌳🏕️

And a reminder to hug your local park ranger, but ask first, not all of them like it

#national park #nature #national park service #national parks #park ranger #the great outdoors #protect our wildlife #wildlife #conservation #outdoor education #naturecore #nature conservation #can you paint with all the colors of the wind

[notwiselybuttoowell]

California’s Yurok Tribe, which had 90% of its territory taken from it during the gold rush of the mid-1800s, will be getting a slice of its land back to serve as a new gateway to Redwood national and state parks visited by 1 million people a year.

The Yurok will be the first Native people to manage tribal land with the National Park Service under a historic memorandum of understanding signed on Tuesday by the tribe, Redwood national and state parks and the non-profit Save the Redwoods League.

The agreement “starts the process of changing the narrative about how, by whom and for whom we steward natural lands”, Sam Hodder, president and CEO of Save the Redwoods League, said in a statement.

The return of the 125 acres (50 hectares) of land – named ’O Rew in the Yurok language – more than a century after it was stolen from California’s largest tribe is proof of the “sheer will and perseverance of the Yurok people”, said Rosie Clayburn, the tribe’s cultural resources director. “We kind of don’t give up.”

For the tribe, redwoods are considered living beings and traditionally only fallen trees have been used to build their homes and canoes.

“As the original stewards of this land, we look forward to working together with the Redwood national and state parks to manage it,” Clayburn said. “This is work that we’ve always done, and continued to fight for, but I feel like the rest of world is catching up right now and starting to see that Native people know how to manage this land the best.”

The property is at the heart of the tribe’s ancestral land and was taken in the 1800s to exploit its old-growth redwoods and other natural resources, the tribe said. Save the Redwoods League bought the property in 2013 and began working with the tribe and others to restore it.

Much of the property was paved over by a lumber operation that worked there for 50 years and also buried Prairie Creek, where salmon would swim upstream from the Pacific to spawn.

Plans for ’O Rew include a traditional Yurok village of redwood plank houses and a sweat house. There also will be a new visitor and cultural center displaying scores of sacred artefacts from deerskins to baskets that have been returned to the tribe from university and museum collections, Clayburn said.

It will add more than a mile (1.6km) of new trails, including a new segment of the California Coastal Trail, with interpretive exhibits. The trails will connect to many of the existing trails inside the parks, including to popular old-growth redwood groves.

The tribe had already been restoring salmon habitat for three years on the property, building a meandering stream channel, two connected ponds and about 20 acres (8 hectares) of floodplain while dismantling a defunct mill site. Crews also planted more than 50,000 native plants, including grass-like slough sedge, black cottonwood and coast redwood trees.

Salmon were once abundant in rivers and streams running through these redwood forests, But dams, logging, development and drought – due in part to the climate crisis – have destroyed the waterways and threatened many of these species. Last year, recreational and commercial king salmon fishing seasons were closed along much of the west coast due to near-record low numbers of the iconic fish returning to their spawning grounds.

The tribe will take ownership in 2026 of the land near the tiny northern California community of Orick in Humboldt county after restoration of a local tributary, Prairie Creek, is complete under the deal.

A growing Land Back movement has been returning Indigenous homelands to the descendants of those who lived there for millennia before European settlers arrived. That has seen Native American tribes taking a greater role in restoring rivers and lands to how they were before they were expropriated.

Last week, a 2.2-acre (0.9-hectare) parking lot was returned to the Ohlone people where they established the first human settlement beside San Francisco Bay 5,700 years ago. In 2022, more than 500 acres (200 hectares) of redwood forest on the Lost Coast were returned the InterTribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council, a group of 10 tribes.

The ’O Rew property represents just a tiny fraction of the more than 500,000 acres of the ancestral land of the Yurok, whose reservation straddles the lower 44 miles (70km) of the Klamath River. The Yurok tribe is also helping lead efforts in the largest dam removal project in US history along the California-Oregon border to restore the Klamath and boost the salmon population.

The Redwoods national park superintendent, Steve Mietz, praised the restoration of the area and its return to the tribe, saying it is “healing the land while healing the relationships among all the people who inhabit this magnificent forest”.

#excerpts #yurok tribe #national parks #California #environment #indigenous rights #tribal rights #land back #national park service #ecosystems #biodiversity #salmon

[cookinguptales]

god I love following the NPS on social media

#national parks #dinsoaurs #dinosaur national monument #nps #national park service #jurassic park

[wandering-jana]

South Kaibab Trail, Grand Canyon National Park

#grand canyon #grand canyon national park #arizona #travel #nature #nature photography #photography #wandering #landscape #original photography #photographers on tumblr #lensblr #hiking #national park #national park service #landscape photography #wanderingjana