Favorable weather again greeted searchers Thursday as they headed off into the skies over Katmai National Park and Preserve, anxious to find any sign of a single-engine plane that went missing nearly two weeks ago.

Though roughly 50,000 air-miles have been flown without detection of a distress signal or sign of debris in the hunt for the white-and-maroon float plane with four on board, official

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Another week has been added to collect public comment on a study into a proposal to substantially upgrade a transmission power corridor that crosses the Appalachian National Scenic Trail, Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, and the Middle Delaware National Scenic and Recreational River.

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Starting today, a collection of more than 1,700 recorded oral histories from immigrants who arrived in the United States through Ellis Island will be available free online. The histories were recorded by the National Park Service starting in the 1970s and, until now, were only available to those visiting the Ellis Island Immigration Museum.

Thanks to Ancestry.com, the tapes are now part of the site's United States Immigration Collection. Not only can you check out the Ellis Island Oral History - which is free from today to Monday - as well as 170 million records including lists of passengers who immigrated to America between 1820 and 1960, more than 7 million citizenship and naturalization records, border crossings and passport applications, and more.

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For two men hiking in the Canadian Rockies, their trip was one they'll never forget. They discovered the remains of William Holland, an American climber who vanished over two decades ago.

The men were hiking in Jasper National Park, Alberta and found Holland's body fully preserved - entombed by glacial ice and still wearing his climbing gear, spiked boots, and rope tossed over his shoulder.

In April 1989, Holland, who was 38 at the time and living in Gorham, Maine, was climbing a frozen waterfall on Snow Dome Mountain when the snow he was standing on collapsed. Holland plummeted over 1,000 feet and due to hazardous weather conditions, was never found. The park reports that since 1970, the bodies of at least two other mountaineers who went missing in Jasper National Park have never been recovered.

To identify national park mystery spot 15 you were given this to work with:

The answer is El Capitan in Yosemite National Park.

Imagine Shenandoah National Park without its autumnal showcase of colors, or a sign along the Virginia coastline noting that the site of the Jamestown colony is offshore and under water.

Grizzly bear studies in Yellowstone National Park will become a bit more intense in the coming weeks as wildlife biologists head into the backcountry to trap bears and gather data.

The effort marks the 37th consecutive fall that members of the Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team have gone into the park's ba

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Polling conducted for the National Parks Conservation Association shows Maine residents overwhelmingly would prefer to see their state's "North Woods" preserved as "parkland" complemented by sustainable timbering rather than dotted with vacation homes.

Seventy-eight percent of the 502 individuals surveyed by Zogby International between July 26 and July 29 said they'd pre

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