Is the Country Ready for a Manhattan Project National Historical Park?
Unfortunately, the University of Chicago would not be included in the park (via National Parks Traveler)
![Rare Ansel Adams Print of Great Smoky Mountains National Park (via National Parks Traveler)
A rare shot of Great Smoky Mountains National Park taken by Ansel Adams shortly after World War II has been acquired by a Knoxville, Tennessee, museum….
The Knoxville Museum of Art was able to acquire Dawn, Autumn Forest, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee, 1948, which was taken by Mr. Adams as part of his work on a Guggenheim Fellowship to document America’s national parks and monuments. The trip to the Smokies was reportedly his first and only visit to Tennessee.
While Yosemite National Park offered the photographer dazzling waterfalls, granite domes, and shimmering lakes for his cameras, the Smokies were a bit more challenging for him.
“The Smokys [sic] are OK in their way, but they are going to be devilish hard to photograph…,” he wrote a friend in October 1948.](http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kuo40kLTJk1qzv83eo1_400.jpg)
Rare Ansel Adams Print of Great Smoky Mountains National Park (via National Parks Traveler)
A rare shot of Great Smoky Mountains National Park taken by Ansel Adams shortly after World War II has been acquired by a Knoxville, Tennessee, museum….
The Knoxville Museum of Art was able to acquire Dawn, Autumn Forest, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee, 1948, which was taken by Mr. Adams as part of his work on a Guggenheim Fellowship to document America’s national parks and monuments. The trip to the Smokies was reportedly his first and only visit to Tennessee.
While Yosemite National Park offered the photographer dazzling waterfalls, granite domes, and shimmering lakes for his cameras, the Smokies were a bit more challenging for him.
“The Smokys [sic] are OK in their way, but they are going to be devilish hard to photograph…,” he wrote a friend in October 1948.
Senate Loads Credit Card Bill With Amendment to Allow Loaded Weapons in National Parks.
From National Parks Traveler:
The U.S. Senate, which struggles mightily with topics such as health care, education, and balanced budgets, had no troubles Tuesday amending a credit card bill of all things with a measure to allow concealed weapons to be toted about national parks and wildlife refuges.
On an easy vote of 67-29 the senators tacked on the amendment, sponsored by Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Oklahoma, to a bill concerning how many fees credit card companies can charge you. If opponents to concealed carry in national parks are right, the senators might not have realized what they were doing.
“Senator Coburn’s amendment to the Credit Cardholders Bill of Rights Act of 2009 would allow individuals to openly carry rifles, shotguns, and semi-automatic weapons in national parks if the firearm is in compliance with State law,” the National Parks Conservation Association, Coalition of National Park Service Retirees, Association of National Park Rangers, and the U.S. Park Rangers Lodge, Fraternal Order of Police, said in a letter sent to the Senate prior to the vote….
Castle Geyser (via Ylwstonegirl98)
Climate Change: How It's Expected to Transform The Face of Glacier National Park
Here is an interesting video on my favorite national park
