Working on Labor Day means earning double pay as it is a paid holiday, alleviating the disappointment of working while others have the day off. Celebrated to honor workers’ contributions, Labor Day originated from 19th-century labor movements.
INHA staff will receive paid time off on December 24 and 26, 2025. Anyone scheduled to work those days will earn double pay for their hours.
Paleontologists have named a brand-new dinosaur species: Athenar bermani, a long-necked plant-eater from the Late Jurassic period (about 150 million years ago). Found in Dinosaur National Monument, Utah
Columbus Day is a national holiday in many countries of the Americas and elsewhere, and a federal holiday in the United States, which officially celebrates the anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s arrival in the Americas. Columbus went ashore at Guanahaní, an island in the Bahamas, on October 12, 1492.
Join us for National Public Lands Day on September 27, 2025! Since 1994, this annual event on the fourth Saturday of September has been the nation’s largest single-day volunteer effort. Last year, over 130 national parks hosted events with 7,600 volunteers donating an impressive 41,500 hours of service.
All national parks that charge an entrance fee will offer free admission to everyone on September 27, 2025 in celebration of National Public Lands Day.
Saturday work is starting this weekend, with work running from 7 am to 7 pm. Work will primarily be on the QEH parking lot and quarry road, so there should be minimal happening along the Green River Road other than trucks going back and forth.
The September equinox is the moment the Sun crosses the celestial equator—an imaginary line in the sky above Earth’s equator—from north to south. This happens on September 22, 23, or 24 in most years.
