While most of us play in our vast system of 63 national parks, others work there. Today, on National Park Service Founders Day, we recognize their efforts and the priceless gift of our country"s national parks. The NPS protects and maintains these parks as well as hundreds of national monuments and other natural, historical, and recreational properties. They include some of our most stunning natural landscapes, like North Cascades National Park in Washington state, featured here. This image, of the Triplets and Cascade Peak, is taken from atop Forbidden Peak.
National Park Service Founders Day
Today in History
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Reflections of the night sky
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Forward-thinking women of history
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A magnificent monolith
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Once in a pink moon
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The story of the poinsettia
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Halo around the sun
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A notorious gunfight that was incorrectly named
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Christmas lights in Domaso, Lake Como, Italy
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Celestial Spain
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It’s NASA’s 60th birthday
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Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California
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Lavender fields on the Valensole Plateau in Provence, France
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Dark skies over New Mexico
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Ostuni, Apulia, Italy
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Marine Day in Japan
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A day for our oceans
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Three Natural Bridges, Wulong Karst, China
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A century since Tut s tomb was discovered
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Headed to the High Country
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A traboule in Lyon, France
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A Welsh wonder turns 70
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Porto Timoni beach, Greece
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Angkor, Cambodia
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Happy Mother’s Day
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And you thought moths were boring
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Life in a North African town
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Scotts Bluff National Monument, Gering, Nebraska
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Corn maze in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania
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The stylish Spanish shawl
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Crown Fountain by Jume Plensa at Millennium Park in Chicago
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