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AIRWeb Air Resources Web, an air quality information web site for U.S. parks and wildlife refuges developed by the Air Resources Division of the National Park Service and the Air Quality Branch of the Fish and Wildlife Service. 

Since 1979, elemental concentrations of fine particles have been monitored in remote areas of the United States in networks operated for the National Park Service (NPS) and the EPA (Eldred and Cahill 1994). Lead at all sites decreased sharply through 1986, corresponding to the shift to unleaded gasoline, but has since leveled off at 1-2 ng/m3 (0.001-0.002 pg/m3), which is approximately 18% of the 1982 mean. The elevated lead concentrations (up to 5 ng/m3) since 1986 at three of the twelve sites are probably associated with mining activity. 

Figure 1.4 Hyperthermophile bacteria at Prismatic Lake in Yellowstone National Park. (A colour reproduction of this figure can be seen in the colour section). (Reproduced from a photo of Prismatic Lake by courtesy of National Park Service, Yellow Stone National Park)...

Daugherty, G. V., Acting Superintendent, United States Department of Interior, National Park Service, Three Rivers, California, collected the Sequoia gigantea and sent it to us, 1976. 

Pages 38-39 National Park Service, Department of the Interior, Lowell National Historical Park, text by Thomas Dublin. 

AirNow (2007). Airnow EPA, NOAA National Weather Service, NASA Earth Science, National Park Service Air Resources, National Association of Clean Air Agencies, Environment Canada, www.aimow.gov. 

Irwin, R. J., VanMouwerik, M., Stevens, Seese, M. D., and W. Basham, W. 1997. Environmental Contaminants Encyclopedia. National Park Service, Water Resources Division, Fort Collins, CO. 

The National Park Service s initial estimates of between thirty and forty wolves grew to plans calling for ten packs of ten wolves each. 

The CASTNET provides atmospheric data on the dry deposition component of total acid deposition, ground-level ozone, and other forms of atmospheric pollution. CASTNET is considered the nation s primary source for atmospheric data to estimate dry acidic deposition and to provide data on rural ozone levels. Used in conjunction with other national monitoring networks, CASTNET is used to determine the effectiveness of national emission control programs. Established in 1987, CASTNET now comprises over 70 monitoring stations across the United States. The longest data records are primarily at eastern sites. The majority of the monitoring stations are operated by EPA s Office of Air and Radiation however, approximately 20 stations arc operated by the National Park Service in cooperation with EPA. 

Kaestle, F. A. Report on DNA Analysis of the Remains of "Kennewick Man" from Columbia Park, Washington. National Parks Service, website http //www.cr.nps.gov/aad/kennewick/index.htm, 2000... 

Pisarowicz, Jim. Speleothems. Wind Cave National Park. National Park Service. Available online. URL http //www.nps. gov/archive/wica/Speleothems.htm. Accessed Dec. 17, 2006. 

Stitching to an auxiliary support is the least desirable of the methods that have been tried. In one case observed by Toby Raphael (National Parks Service, personal communication, 1985), a tapa garment had to be completely dismantled for the procedure, and stitching was done through the body of the cloth as well as at the edges through the original seams. While this treatment, undertaken at some time in the past, reflects the application of textile techniques to tapa, it is clearly a more interventive treatment than would be recommended today. 

Figure 1 Impairment of visibility by aerosols. Photographs at Yosemite National Park, California, USA. (a) Low aerosol concentration (particulate matter of aerodynamic diameter less than 2.5 p,m, PM2.5 = 0.3 p,g m particulate matter of aerodynamic diameter less than 10 p,m, PMio = 1.1 ag m estimated coefficient of light scattering by particulate matter, (r p, at 570 nm = 12 Mm ). (b) High aerosol concentration (PM2.5 = 43.9 p,g m PMio = 83.4 p,g m estimated (r p at 570 nm = 245 Mm ) (reproduced by permission of National Park Service,...

National Park Service (2002) http //vista.cira.colostate.edu/ DataWarehouse/improve/data/photos/YOSE/html/ img0001.htm and /img0005.htm... 

Cohen, J.D. (2000) Examination of the Home destruction in Los Alamos Associated with the Cerro Grande Fire, July 10, 2000, United States National Park Service. (http //www.nps.gov/fire/download/pub.pubjexamlosalamos.pdf.)... 

Patterson, D.E. and Husar, R.B. (1985) Final Report on Metals Damage. Submitted to National Park Service, Preservation Assistance Division, Washington, DC. 

The authors are grateful to C. Moore (NC), P. Fiechter (NJ), and R. Masters (NY) for participation at field test sites and to J. Sieler (NBS) and N. Veloz (National Park Service) for installation of stone-exposure racks at the sites. We wish to thank also F. Williams and E. Huff, who performed the IC and ICP analyses under the leadership of K. Jensen (ANL), and R. Lee (ANL), who participated in development of drying procedures and in sample preparation. Com-... 

The authors are grateful for the cooperation of National Park Service officials at Castillo de San Marcos National Monument, financial support of the Graduate School at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville is gratefully acknowledged. 

Ottavino, K. Prudon, T. "Facade Repair New York City Case Studies" Brookhaven National Laboratory, Report prepared for National Park Service, 1985. 

Susan Sherwood, Session Chairman National Park Service... 

In another setting of heavy DEET use, National Park Service employees in the Everglades National Park used heavy applications of DEET (McConnell et al. 1986). A government study of the workers found that high DEET exposure correlated with insomnia, muscle cramps, mood disturbances, and skin and urinary problems. A second study of the group with neurobehavioral testing correlated heavy DEET use with sleep disturbances, psychic distress, and impaired cognitive function (McConnell et al. 1986 Robbins and Cherniack 1986). 

But there s also a reason that Doug Tompkins thinks Turner could go down in history as his generation s giant of wildlands philanthropy, and that Mike Phillips, who was once the National Park Service s expert on wolves and now works for Turner, says that the founder of CNN, the twenty-four-hour cable news network, has surpassed Rockefeller with a body of conservation work that exceeds any human who has ever lived. ... 

The administration sided with the off-road vehicle industry on air pollution standards, on noise pollution standards, and in giving the vehicles continued access to environmentally sensitive areas in national forests and wilderness areas, ignoring scientific opinions inside and outside government on the damage the vehicles cause, fie also sided with snowmobile manufacturers and industry groups in overruling the National Park Service s scientists and three sepa-... 

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