national park

We take you to Taiwan's Xueba National Park to understand the conservation effort of the endangered Formosan Landlocked Salmon.

In a year, some 17 chicks were to be taken hack to the wild--Tongariro National Park's ten plus seven from two other nearby forests.

In the Laguna del Tigre national park lies a "cemetery" of more than 30 crashed light aircraft which had been used to ferry cocaine.

"The heart of the oven was a set of portable iron plates which teamsters transported to the site, " according to the National Park Service.

(He did. ) "Once, someone asked me to report an illegal restaurant inside a national park, " he said.

C: How much is the fare to the National Park?

Putin apparently saved the crew while on a trip to a national park to see how researchers monitor the tigers in the wild.

The base of General Sherman, a true giant among the sequoias in the heart of the Sequoia National Park.

The group's permit to gather in the square expired late Sunday. National Park Police had given the group until Monday afternoon to leave.

Since we were in the Northwest for a wedding, I decided a hike together in Glacier National Park would be perfect.

With no roads or airstrips nearby, the waterways are the only option for reaching the spectacular forests and beaches of the national park.

Mary Cook works on the ground crew for an air taxi company in Gustavus, Alaska, a community of 450 surrounded by Glacier Bay National Park.

An adult Grus americana makes a splashing run-up to flight through a marsh in Canada's Wood Buffalo National Park.

In recent years some of the most strikingly beautiful parts of the territory have been incorporated into American Samoa National Park.

But aside from the protected shores of Tayrona National Park, the beaches around Santa Marta are not always the best places to relax.

Kathleen Dalton is an instructor of History and Social Science at Phillips Academy and a consulting Historian for the National Park Service.

The sun is just rising over Gombe National Park in East Africa Rise to any challenge.

The Lyell Glacier is the largest glacier in Yosemite National Park and is one of the few remaining in the Sierra Nevada today.

National Park Service officials are a bit perplexed by this, since park visitation usually rises in tough economic times.

It's been a hundred years since President Taft signed the legislation creating Glacier National Park in Montana.

The United States National Park Service and a Virginia historical organization jointly run Jamestown Island.

A time-lapse photo reveals a smattering of stars dotting the sky above Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona.

A group of zoologists with Conservation International say they found the frogs by the side of the road in Borneo, near a national park.

A hungry lioness was photographed by a brave tourist as she attacked an enormous water buffalo in Kruger National Park in South Africa.

A female snow bunting shelters from the wind behind an ice-encrusted boulder in Cairngorms National Park.

Access to their habitat is restricted, but tourists can get permits to see them in the wild within the National Park.

Carved out of limestone in Gunung Mulu National Park, the caves span at least 225 miles (362 kilometers) of underground passages.

Some of the most spectacular and best preserved can be seen at rock galleries in Kakadu National Park and other parts of Northern Australia.

Mount Rainier National Park in the northwestern state of Washington is a good example of a park that provides many different trails.

Jiuzhaigou, in Sichuan province, has been a national park for nearly 30 years, and a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1992.

Approximately 96 percent of the land area of Yellowstone National Park is located within the state of Wyoming.

By 1980, it had been enlarged and renamed Denali National Park and Preserve.

In 1917, administration of the park was transferred to the National Park Service, which had been created the previous year.

"Some of our more persistent oil is in that sand column on both recreational beaches and also on national park shorelines, " said Zukunft.

He insists authorities at Exmoor National Park have known of his dwelling for 15 years but began to challenge him only in 2009.

The Hawaiian Islands were formed by volcanoes , so I travel to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park to see one for myself.

With a restricted number of visitors allowed at any time, this national park is a true treasure of protected and endangered species.

As testament to her environmental ardor, a grove of skyscraper-esque trees in Redwood National Park bears the name of Lady Bird Johnson.

Spider monkeys, like this young one in Bolivia's Madidi National Park, are dependent on their mothers for about ten weeks after birth.

We also enjoy going to the Great Smoky National Park as well as the Blue Ridge Parkway. We are only 15 minutes from both of those.

A wonderful place to see this show of color is in Daisetsuzan National Park.

Hill said he is already working with the National Park Service, the agency in charge of Alcatraz Island.

Land that's been cleared for crops extends right up to the eastern boundary of Queen Elizabeth National Park.

This marvelous area is now one of the leader attractions of Banff National Park.

A cape at the southwest tip of Florida. Part of Everglades National Park, it is the southernmost extremity of the U. S. mainland.

Volcanic fire and glacial ice were in perfect balance, and steam caves were formed at Mount Rainier National Park in the United States.

It is in a remote mountainous area which in a few decades will probably be a national park.

It was the first national park in the world. After Yellowstone became Public Park, many other area of great scenic importance was set aside.

When winter comes to Yellowstone National Park, it does not come gently. It is a time when most animals struggle simply to survive.

Yasuni National Park in Ecuador is home to one of the richest concentrations of plant and animal species on the planet.

In Torres Del Paine National Park, pumas have found a refuge.

Today we tell about a large National Park established to protect the culture of ancient Native Americans. It is called Mesa Verde.

Silence brooded over the long undulations of the national park.

Kenya Wildlife Service spokesman Paul Mbugua said at least 10 poachers entered the northern side of Tsavo East National Park.

Bennett's Cross is one of the many ancient upright markers scattered across Dartmoor National Park.

Ten thousand years ago, the area of Glacier National Park was covered by ice up to one mile below sea level.

Two hours away is Gunung Gading National Park, home to the world's largest flower, the Rafflesia, which can grow up to one meter in width.

Crater Lake is now a national park and draws approximately 500, 000 visitors a year.

At a tea plantation bordering Kaziranga National Park, women workers tote freshly picked leaves to be processed.

Searching for a terrain similar to that found on Mars, the team took the rover to El Teide National Park in Tenerife.

In 1916, the U. S. Congress created the National Park Service to coordinate management of a steadily growing system of national parks.

Liu Kung Island National Park is a collection of natural scenery and cultural landscape in one of the national forest park.

Canyonlands National Park on the White Rim Trail, looking south along the Green River near the Potato Bottom campsite.

In 1994, it was named by the former National Forest Industry Ministry as a "Model National Park" , where the primitive natural.

The turning point was Aug. 13, the day I crossed the Continental Divide on Going-to-the-Sun Road in Glacier National Park.

It turns out , Miguel spent the better part of his career in the Mikumi National Park in Africa .

The summer crowds have left New England and Nova Scotia, which means more lobster, seaside lounging and national-park exploration for you.

Autumn grandeur spreads across Eagle Lake on Mount Desert Island, one of several coastal islands that make up Acadia National Park in Maine.

On entering the Great Sandy National Park we swap to the larger double-storey Cooloola Queen for better viewing of the everglades.

In its National Park system the United States has institutionalized, so to speak, the wonders of nature.

The mountainous park in Mexico's Coahuila State joins with Big Bend National Park on the U. S. side of the Rio Grande.

Brooks Falls in Katmai National Park, Alaska is one of the really amazing places on the planet.

Everything had to comply with the strict rules of the National Park and even had to have barn-style roof lights in the upstairs ceilings.

Mr. Glasheen was living in Sydney at the time and found the island, an uninhabited national park, through a real estate agent.

The Public Broadcasting Service and the National Park Service will hold a free gala concert Saturday in front of the U. S. Capitol building.

One of the big flash points has been the ecosystem just north of Kenya's border with Tanzania, around Amboseli National Park.

This endangered species lives in Jaragua National Park in the Dominican Republic and on Beata Island off the southern coast of Hispaniola.

A LIGHT rain started to fall as we drove up to the entrance of Bokor National Park in southern Cambodia.

A mist-strewn landscape and a lone rustic cabin give this scene in Washington's Olympic National Park a storybook appearance.

This natural wonders unparalleled beauty inspired the U. S. government to create the worlds first national park.

Two of the most popular places for tourists to visit are the Great Canyon and Yellowstone National Park.

During the dry season, elephants in Chad's Zakouma National Park drink at the last remaining water hole.

My husband and I were exploring Lake Minnewanka in Banff National Park-Canada when we stopped for a timed picture of the two of us.

One of the biggest lurking disasters is at Yellowstone National Park, where a supervolcano erupted 620, 000 years ago.

Visitors can also choose to have one- or two-day trips, trails or treks to enjoy the marvellous scenery of the Taroko National Park.

Acadia National Park, Maine Long Caption: Sunlight filters through a fog-shrouded swath of Acadia National Park, Maine.

Part of this mountain is a national park, a protected area for several species of animals, including elephant and Buffalo.

The Olympic National Park then enveloped Glines Canyon Dam in 1938, even though it was illegal for dams to be located in national parks.

To understand the problem, we need to go back to the 19th century and the creation of Yellowstone, the world's first national park.

Yellowstone National Park is one of the most diverse and wildest places left on Earth.

A tiger stretches its powerful form on a branch in Bandhavgarh National Park in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.

We would see a territory resembling a nature preserve or national park, surrounded by the highly urbanized landscape of modern Europe.

One of their methods is to install cameras in areas of the Tesso Nilo National Park to check on the tigers.

The markings of a Namaqua chameleon match the sand in Sperrgebiet National Park, confusing predators.

How has the Going-to-the-Sun Road influenced the way people experience the Glacier National Park?

The above video was shot solely from the Teide National Park on Tenerife in the Canary Islands of Spain, off the north west coast of Africa.

Sunrise warms the icy southern end of the Andes during a rare break in the weather in Chile's Torres del Paine National Park.

Acadia is the only national Park in the northeastern United States.

A good example of this, which Mr Weisman uses in his book, is Dartmoor, a national park in the south-west of England.

Be able to use President ' s theatre box in Warner Theatre and the Wolf Trappist National Park.

The lush campus is located in the world's first capital national park, yet it is only ten minutes away from downtown Stockholm.

Wisp grass seedpods sway in the wind in South Dakota's Badlands National Park.

The National Park Service said in a statement that its staff and security detected the activists early and responded "within minutes. "

African buffalo create tracks in the salty mud at the edge of a crater lake in Queen Elizabeth National Park.

He and his colleagues commend the National Park Service for its recent work reintroducing fire into the giant sequoia groves.

Yellowstone National Park has one of the world's largest petrified forests. Trees were already buried by ash.

The National Park Service calls this Idaho preserve "the only officially weird park" in the country.

Psihoyos faces arrest for alleged trespass during the making of the film, but he argues the cove is located in a national park.

And in 2003, biologists confirmed the presence of a breeding population of the slithering serpents in Everglades National Park.

With a hiss of steam, lava flows into the Pacific Ocean in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii.

Our first stop: Andasibe-Mantadia National Park, one of Madagascar's most popular, and only a three-hour drive from Antananarivo.

A big cave was discovered in the heart of the jungle underground of Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park in Vietnam.

Millions of people visit Yosemite National Park every year to see the tall waterfalls and mountains.

Yellowstone National Park, which is in Wyoming, is one of the most beautiful national parks in the world.

Haleakala National Park centers around the active, but not currently erupting, Haleakala Crater.

We visited the newly created Loch Lomond Shores National Park Gateway Center, which was just a 10-minute stroll from our hotel.

Tourists visiting Denali National Park this summer may also be disappointed.

it hopes to bully the federal government to open part of Katmai National Park to bear-hunting instead.

The mini frogs were found on the edge of a road leading to the summit of GunungSerapi Mountain in Kubah National Park in Sarawak, Malaysia.

Derbyshire and its glorious Peak District National Park is a wonderful place to visit for the whole family.

One afternoon in Katmai National Park, Morrow, who had been up since dawn looking for bears, came across this young grizzly near a creek.

The residential project is located in the central Pacific zone of Costa Rica, near the national park Manuel Antonio, Quepos.

The former pirates' lair is now a national park protected from hotel developers and beach vendors.

One active volcano is in Yellowstone National Park in the United States.

A young baboon plays with a discarded lump of chewing gum, in the Kruger National Park, South Africa.

Like the boiling hot springs of Yellowstone national park.

A double rainbow plunges into a gorge in Alaska's Denali National Park.

Sinopec, an oil firm, has explored in a Gabonese national park. Another state oil company has created lakes of spilled crude in Sudan.

Back at Tongariro National Park, it has not been all good news.

A leopard cub explores the long grass in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania.

Glacier National Park contains some of the most beautiful, primitive wilderness in the Rocky Mountains.

Your final stop heading back to Cairns is the Babinda Boulders , part of the Wooroonooran National Park, and shrouded in Aboriginal myth.

8A wolf pack is bedded down in the snow in Yellowstone national park.

Try the waters off the Pacific Rim National Park on Vancouver Island's western coast or in the Queen Charlotte Strait.

The Canadian park lies across the international border from Montana's Glacier National Park.

In 1968 the little game reserve underwent its own graduation, becoming Tanzania's Gombe National Park.

After arriving at Mountain Zebra National Park, the rangers put Batman and Robin in an enclosure called a boma.

Closer still are picturesque butts and mesas of the Canyonlands National Park in Utah, USA, lit by a crescent moon.

Wildlife numbers are increasing, especially in conservancies and private reserves beyond national park boundaries.

Life in Color: Green Leaf-green pierid butterflies alight on the sandy shores of the Tuichi River in Bolivia's Madidi National Park.

The little aircraft has been flying a long loop out of Juba, the capital, over what will become the Bandingalo National Park.

Today, Fort Union is preserved by the National Park Service as an outdoor museum on the Santa Fe Trail.

At Oulanka National Park in the far north of Finland, a forest floor outshines the sky.

Quebec's Forillon National Park protects a range of varied ecosystems, including natural prairies, seaside cliffs, lakes, and marshes.

Carlsbad Caverns National Park is a United States National Park in the Guadalupe Mountains in southeastern New Mexico.

Life in Color: Yellow A yellow boat hull is reflected at the waterline in Quebec's Forillon National Park.

Mount Desert Island in Acadia National Park is one of the most famous.

After a forest fire in Yellowstone National Park , forest rangers began their trek up a mountain to assess the inferno's damage.

Edwin C. Bearss, former chief historian for the National Park Service, is particularly impressed by the scope of the authors' work.

in the morning , we proceed to one of the seven wonders of the world - grand canyon national park.

It was the fifth national park designated by Congress.

The huge mountains and deep valleys of Glacier National Park are essentially the southern extension of the Canadian Rockies.

What made it necessary to build a road through the Glacier National Park?

Visitors walk along the beach near the Covehead Lighthouse at Prince Edward Island National Park.

This leopard is in a tree in the Mala Mala Game Reserve in Kruger National Park, South Africa.

Duncan: If you turn over a rock in any national park, what you find is democracy in action.

These isolated mountains cover thousands of square miles and their rich and untouched forests were declared a national park in 2001.

An entire central band of our Milky Way balances precariously on THE "Balanced Rock" of Arches National Park in Utah.

A National Park Service worker sells us a ticket to enter the old fort. It only costs a few dollars.

Indonesian police and forest rangers riding elephants approach illegal settlements in the Gunung Leuser national park, Sumatra.

Located in the northern part of Wyoming. It is the oldest national park in the world and the largest wildlife preserve in the U. S. A.

Established in 1981, Grasslands National Park in Saskatchewan is one of Canada's newest parks.

A pair of Asian tapirs are caught during a nighttime jaunt in Kerinci Seblat National Park in September 2006.

For centuries, the mountain peaks in and around Yellowstone National Park were a healthy, frigid environment for the whitebark pine tree.

We're here in Yellowstone National Park to follow some gray wolves and observe the deadly brilliance of the pack.

Rosy bee-eaters perform a mating dance on the shores of Loango National Park. The birds gather here by the thousands to dig their nests.

Yellowstone National Park is the oldest and largest national park in the United States.

Most visitors watch this natural beauty and leave with only the memory of sunset at beautiful Death Valley National Park.

Jackson, Yellowstone National Park, with children to holiday fun, this region has also become a restricted area.

A shimmering travertine deposit forms a limestone terrace around a mineral spring at Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park.

A quiet pond reflects snow-dusted trees and granite outcrops of the Sierra Nevada in California's Yosemite National Park.

Nova Scotia's Cape Breton was the first national park designated in Atlantic Canada.

In fact, this whole area is like a Yellowstone National Park with all of the trimmings.

A golden lioness and her cub bask in the warmth of a savanna sun in Tanzania's Serengeti National Park.

Caught in the act by a remote camera trap, a sambar deer drinks from a water source in Bandhavgarh National Park, India.

Even in the so called 'wildlife capital' of the world, Nairobi National Park, the situation is no better.

Essentially a national park, West Lake claims to have more than 100 tourist attractions, the majority of which are many centuries old.

Cohan and his colleagues have found these microbial species in the hot springs of Yellowstone National Park.

The route cuts through a national park and Indian reserve known by its initials as TIPNIS.

A flow of glowing lava issues from Mount Kilauea in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.

Winter sunlight appears to set Yosemite National Park's Horsetail Fall aflame.

National park rules for the protection of flora and fauna must be observed .

These incredible photographs were taken by photographer and experienced climber Jimmy Chin in the Yosemite National Park.

Ned is nuts about bugs and lives out West in a national park, three hours' drive from the nearest basketball court.

Mesa Verde National Park occupies twenty-one thousand hectares of land. However, only about ten percent of the area has been explored.

A solitary red maple leaf lies on the trunk of a downed tree in Maine's Acadia National Park.

During the 2009 spring thaw, Wyoming pronghorn retrace their autumn steps (and splashes) to return to the Grand Teton National Park region.

Red maple leaves and gold on a cottonwood announce the arrival of fall in the pink sandstone canyons of Zion National Park in Utah.

Bare rock and meltwater pools mark the edge of the shrinking Harrison Glacier in Montana's Glacier National Park.

At Valley Forge, the National Park Service employs enactors dressed as Continental Army soldiers would have been.

It's been more than 40 years since I first set foot on the sandy beach of what is now Tanzania's Gombe National Park.

The National Park Service says that early colonial settlers and land developers believed the Everglades had little value.

The hand of a mountain gorilla pokes from the rain forest in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda.

Photographer Sam Dobson captured an extraordinary battle among zebras in Etosha National Park, Namibia.

Duncan: Like baseball and jazz, the National Park System is an American invention.

Tourists visiting the national park enjoyed watching this spectacular ice rupture which occurs every four to five years.

Moss-draped trees, shrubs, and ferns adorn the Hoh River Valley, a temperate rain forest in Washington State's Olympic National Park.

Encouraged to bloom by rare rainstorms , a sea of wildflowers blankets the sand dunes of Australia's Simpson Desert National Park.

The American millionaire John D. Rockefeller gave some land to start Acadia National Park.

Lightning strikes over a ridge as a storm passes though Death Valley National Park in California just after sunset July 21, 2009.

The spectacle was captured on camera by British tourist Jamie Rooney, who was visiting the famous Kruger National Park in South Africa.

Sylvia Semal : I was on an organised tour of Patagonia, camping on a slope alongside Lake Pehoe in Torres del Paine national park, Chile.

Bow Lake in Alberta's Banff National Park presents a perfect canvas to mirror the beauty of the Canadian Rockies.

Painted Dunes can be seen atop Cinder Cone at Lassen Volcanic National Park in California.

Largerthan every other national park in the U. S. combined, the monumentprotects 10% of the shallow coral reef habitat in U. S. territory.

Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Park, both convenient day trips from Bozeman, are also a bargain for retirees.

A shimmering afternoon rainbow frequently fences Bridalveil Fall in Yosemite National Park.

Ferdinand V. Hayden American geologist who convinced Congress to make Yellowstone a National Park.

Beyond the reach of ash and debris deposits, the volcano is surrounded by forests; the area is a national park.

Wildebeest migration and clouds, Serengeti National Park, Tanzania.

The end of Nepal's Maoist insurgency in 2006 allowed army guard posts back into Chitwan National Park, where most of the rhinos live.

Sandbars flow into the Coral Sea at Whitsunday Island National Park in Queensland, Australia.

Morning light breaks through the clouds. Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado.

I did not come to Liuwa Plain National Park in Zambia to photograph wildebeests.

Summertime camping is a popular activity in Alberta's Jasper National Park, the largest park in the Canadian Rockies.

Sweeping vistas are a main attraction at Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado.

A hiker takes in a spectacular view of Grinnell Lake on the trail to the Grinnell Glacier in Montana's Glacier National Park.

The National Park Service had to send water trucks to provide water for the visitors.

Spectacular, wildlife-rich lowland tundra characterizes remote Aulavik National Park in the Northwest Territories.

Unlike most other national parks, Everglades National Park was created to protect an ecosystem from damage.

Tourists look on as Old Faithful, Yellowstone National Park's most famous geyser, sends a tower of scaling water skyward.

President Bush called to the proposal Wednesday during a visit to the Shenandoah National Park in Virginia.

Hawaii Volcanoes National Park (Hawaii, Hawaii Island, southeast).

Bighorn sheep react to a coyote in the Lamar Valley in Yellowstone National Park.

Qinyuan tourism resources are: Qinhe source Sensen Hope in a Desolate Mountain National Park, Bodhi Temple.

Thickly clumped stems of arrowweed (Pluchea sericea) form the "corn shocks" of the Devil's Cornfield in Death Valley National Park.

The idea of nature as a place of inspiration and renewal played a key role in the creation of the National Park Service in 1916.

Yet the forests surrounding the national park are swiftly being converted to roads, cash crop plantations and other development projects.

A visit to Bako National Park requires a boat ride across the South China Sea.

The Green River (on the left) meets the Colorado River in the middle of Canyonlands National Park, Utah, in this image from GeoEye.

Parrots, toucans, jaguars, and tapirs share the surrounding orchid-dotted national park.

Fog from a nearby hot spring nearly conceals two bison grazing on winter grasses in Yellowstone National Park.

Fall foliage paves the edges of a pool of water in California's Yosemite National Park.

Only one person had the answer: Daphne Sheldrick, who runs an elephant orphanage in Nairobi National Park.

Horizontal furrows and vertical fractures in the bedrock give Checkerboard Mesa in Utah's Zion National Park its name.

The second largest national park in Atlantic Canada, Gros Morne in Newfoundland and Labrador is designated as a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Autumn brings vibrant color to a valley in Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park.

Ancestral Puebloan granaries, Nankoweap Canyon, Colorado River, Marble Canyon, Grand Canyon National Park.

A tender moment transpires between mother and infant orangutans in Borneo's Tanjung Puting National Park.

A couple of mule deer are on the lookout for wolves and other predators in a meadow in Yellowstone National Park.

National Park Week 1996 is a celebration of these partnerships.

The headwaters of both rivers are in Glacier National Park in Montana, and both flow north into Canada.

Photograph by George F. Mobley Frost- flecked tundra pools dot the landscape of Canada's North Yukon National Park.

A courageous vole takes on a coyote a hundred times his size in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming.

The Sydney Harbour National Park protects the scattered pockets of bush land and offers good walking tracks.

Researchers observed warlike behavior on a regular basis among chimpanzees living in Ngogo in Uganda's Kibale National Park.

The term "national park" conjures up thoughts of big, natural landscapes like Grand Canyon and Yosemite.

Her husband is also a science teacher, and he takes his biology class on a hike in the nearby national park.

River water stained by tannins from leaf litter flows from the peaks of Fiordland National Park into Gaer Arm reserve.

This lion was photographed under moonlight, at Serengeti National Park, Tanzania.