Happy Birthday to the US Forest Service! On this day, in 1905, the management of the forest reserves was transferred from the Department of the Interior to the Department of Agriculture and Pinchot’s new Forest Service. In 1907, the forest reserves were renamed national forests. During Pinchot’s era, the Forest Service and the national forests…
A year from now, you’re gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now. Phil McGraw
Hope everyone has a wonderful day!
Dinosaur, CO & Jensen, UT— The lottery is now open for the noncommercial river permits for the high use season on the Green and Yampa Rivers in Dinosaur National Monument. Applicants can access and submit the form by logging onto www.recreation.gov. The open lottery season for noncommercial high use season river permits runs from December…
National Park Service announces 16 free days for 2016 By Faith Heaton Jolley | Posted Dec 3rd, 2015 @ 11:39am THE GREAT OUTDOORS — To celebrate its centennial year, the National Park Service will be waiving entrance fees on 16 days in 2016. The National Park Service was founded on Aug. 25, 1916, and since then, 84 million acres comprising of…
On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, an armistice, or temporary cessation of hostilities, was declared between the Allied nations and Germany in the First World War, then known as “the Great War.” Commemorated as Armistice Day beginning the following year, November 11th became a legal federal holiday…
Wednesday, November 11th, is observed as a federal holiday in 2015. That means double pay if you are scheduled to work! Bonus!! And it means a paid day off if you’re not scheduled. Then we’re on the countdown to Thanksgiving…
