Newsletter – Page 7 – The Ranger Desk

POW: Glacier Bay National Park And Preserve

Glacier Bay National Park is roughly 3.3 million acres, the size of Connecticut, and most of that acreage is federally designated wilderness.

San Antonio Missions National Historical Park is part of the first and only UNESQO World Heritage Site in Texas.

Zealandia–previously called the Karori Wildlife Sanctuary–is a fully-fenced ecosanctuary in the heart of Wellington city.

Golden Gate Park is one of the most popular tourist attractions in San Francisco and the third most visited urban park in the United States.

In 1991 the Lorraine Motel, the site of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s assassination, was established as the National Civil Rights Museum.

John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge was the first urban national wildlife refuge in the United States, established in 1972.

Monteverde Cloud Forest Biological Reserve was founded to protect one of the last regions of pristine cloud forest in Central America.

John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park is one of the premier spots for coral reef viewing in the continental US.

This week’s park celebrates the site where one of the most famous and influential African Americans in U.S. history was freed from slavery.

Cedar Breaks National Monument perches at over 10,000 ft (3,000 m) over a geologic amphitheater a half-mile deep.