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Happy 99th Birthday*, National Park Service!

These photos of Yellowstone, Rocky Mountain, King’s Canyon, and Glacier National Parks all come from the series: Ansel Adams Photographs of National Parks and Monuments, 1941 - 1942, from the Records of the National Park Service.  

The National Archives is fortunate to have a substantial collection of photos by Ansel Adams.  In 1941 Adams was recruited by the Secretary of the Interior, Harold Ickes, to photograph the national parks.  Ickes intended to select a number of these photos to be printed as murals and hung around the Department of Interior building.  Adams would later claim this was “one of the best ideas ever to come out of Washington.”

Adams’ project for the Department of the Interior began in October 1941. Adams was granted the maximum annual salary for any position not subject to congressional approval, twenty-two dollars and twenty cents a day.  In the nine months that followed, Adams traveled between parks, capturing photos of the Rocky Mountains, Yellowstone, Boulder Dam, the Grand Canyon, Yosemite and many others.  Unfortunately, the project was terminated on July 1, 1942 due to pressures of World War II.  These photos are now public records and available at the National Archives.

Read more about Adams’ project at The Unwritten Record » Happy Birthday, Rocky Mountain National Park.  The photographer later visited the National Archives on several occasions to review his work: Ansel Adams visits the National Archives.

(*In celebration of their 99th birthday, entrance fees to National Parks are waived today, August 25, so get out and #FindYourPark!)

Source: research.archives.gov
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The Hanson Road Hustlers stayed busy last night with numerous medical calls related to assaults. As always, we stage for police to allow them to secure the scene. A Hanson Road Production!

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National Seed Strategy for Rehabilitation and Restoration Just Announced

Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell announced the release of the National Seed Strategy for Rehabilitation and Restoration today. The strategy will guide efforts to restore public lands after landscape-scale ecological changes such as wildfires and hurricanes.  

“Having the right seed to plant in the right place at the right time will make a huge difference in the health of our lands as we address impacts of large-scale disturbances such as drought, climate change, fire, and invasive species,” Secretary Jewell said. Across the United States, the strategy will help foster resilient and healthy landscapes important to wildlife and to our economy by guiding ecological restoration, especially for those lands – such as sagebrush habitat – damaged by large rangeland fires.

The Strategy is the work of the 12-agency Federal Committee of the Plant Conservation Alliance, and supports the goals of a number of other national initiatives, such as the President’s Climate Action Plan.  Among the partners in the plan is the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), which manages the federal government’s largest land management portfolio of about 245 million acres. The seed strategy delivers on Secretary Jewell’s wildfire plan and will be helpful in ensuring that landscapes – like sagebrush landscapes – can stay healthy for the sake of our economy and our wildlife. Read the press release and follow @BLMNational on Twitter using #itstartswithaSEED for more information. For stories about ongoing projects happening across BLM visit the My Public Lands Flickr.

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Mount Rainier National Park’s Paradise area is famous for its glorious views and wildflower meadows. We can definitely see why. Photo by Danny Seidman (www.sharetheexperience.org). 

Spread the word – On Tuesday, August 25, you can visit all national parks for free in celebration of the National Park Service’s 99th birthday!