Enjoying Outdoor Recreation at Portland Area Parks
Here are three parks in the Portland, Oregon area where you can enjoy a wide range of recreational activities that you might not expect to find so close to an urban setting. Enjoy the largest forested area and one of only two extinct volcanoes within city limits in the continental United States, and the only national wildlife refuge set in an urban area, featuring 200 species of birds.
The Kids Zone, a new addition to the National Park Service’s website, launched on August 25th. It includes more than 50 interactive activities designed to connect children with the people, places, and events commemorated in the country’s 391 National Park Service sites.
At 860,010 acres, Arizona’s Cabeza Prieta is the third largest national wildlife refuge in the lower 48 states. In a land where temperatures can exceed 100 degree F for months at a time, the refuge features plants and animals adapted to harsh conditions.
When looking for a first job or if you're interested in making a career change, stop to think about what motivates you. Is it an enjoyable workplace, challenging assignments, the chance to travel, etc. In conducting more than a hundred interviews with park personnel who worked in more than 35 different positions, I found that one person summed up the feelings of many in the following statement: "While you may not become a millionaire working is this field, the job satisfaction and enjoyment is, as the credit card advertisement says, "priceless"!"
The 85 mile network of routes that comprise Maryland's Chesapeake Country Scenic Byway allows visitors to experience Colonial history, Revolutionary War battlefields, rural farmland, water-based recreation, scenic vistas, and more. Situated along the Atlantic Flyway, it includes wildlife refuges and management areas that are major feeding and resting places for migratory and wintering waterfowl.
First National Park to Protect a Wild River System
On this day in 1964, Ozark National Scenic Riverways was authorized as a unit of the National Park Service. Winding through a landscape of rugged hills and towering bluffs for some 134 miles along both the Jacks Fork and Current rivers -- two of America’s clearest and most beautiful spring-fed rivers -- the Ozark National Scenic Riverways is the first national park area to protect a wild river system.
