If you're planning on doing any hunting or fishing this year, here you'll find information about regulations, opportunities, and events held throughout the country. Each of the 50 states has its own requirements in terms of purchasing licenses, including different residency and age requirements, as well as application periods. Some states allow licenses to be purchased online, while others only accept phone and/or mail-in applications.
If it’s the cha-ching of change or shiny, new things that capture you, check out the first coin in the America the Beautiful Quarters series, released in Arkansas. Hot Springs National Park graces this stunning quarter and blazes a beautiful trail for a Yellowstone National Park quarter in June, Yosemite National Park in July, and Grand Canyon National Park in September. You can purchase the coins from the United States Mint.
Nevada's 23,000-acre Ash Meadow National Wildlife Refuge is a haven for wildlife, especially rare fish, plants, snails, and insects, many of which are found nowhere else on earth. It also provides habitat for more than 239 species of birds and 27 mammals.
If you’re planning a summer trip to any of the most popular national parks – such as Yellowstone, Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Olympic, or Great Smoky Mountains – keep in mind these parks all tend to experience much heavier visitation over the three holiday weekends -- Memorial Day, Fourth of July and Labor Day -- than they do on regular summer weekends.
Scenic coastal ferry route in southern Alaska that includes Alaska's Inside Passage, Prince William Sound, Kodiak, and the Aleutian Islands. Scenery includes pristine islands, spectacular fjords, the Gulf of Alaska and Lower Cook Inlet, snow-capped mountains, historical towns and villages, and abundant wildlife.
On this day in 1903, Frederick Law Olmsted died in Belmont, Massachusetts at the age of 81. Olmsted was a an American landscape designer and regarded as the father of American landscape architecture. Among his designs include well-known urban parks such as New York City's Central Park and Prospect Park, and the nation's oldest state park, the Niagara Reservation in Niagara Falls, NY.
