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Augusta Canal visitors center becomes 'Discovery Center'

...original interpretive center cost $3 million and was developed as a partnership between the canal authority and the National Park Service.It has since become a Southern tourist attraction, with turbines that still generate electricity (and revenues...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2013-04-17/augusta-canal-visitors-center
Augusta Canal visitors center becomes 'Discovery Center'

...original interpretive center cost $3 million and was developed as a partnership between the canal authority and the National Park Service.It has since become a Southern tourist attraction, with turbines that still generate electricity (and revenues...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2013-04-17/augusta-canal-visitors-center
Shells preserved in place where they smashed into Fort Sumter 150 years ago

...multi-year, $900,000 agreement between the National Park Service and Clemson, said Rick Dorrance, the chief of...agreement, Clemson scientists are working with the National Park Service to research the best ways to preserve both the artifacts...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2012-12-23/shells-preserved-place-where-
Gullah-Geechee culture to be honored with float in inaugural parade

...Gullah-Geechee people can take pride in helping shape America.Michael Allen, the Gullah-Geechee coordinator for the National Park Service, will be one of the 15 people from the four corridor states riding on the float."What we want to do is convey...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2013-01-04/gullah-geechee-culture-be-hon
Air delays join budget warnings

...they need to come to the table so we don't have to have this kind of calamity in air services in America."A National Park Service memo obtained Friday said cuts would mean furloughs, reduced hours and sensitive areas would be blocked off to...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/government/2013-02-22/air-delays-join-budget-w
Shifting sands yield mystery shipwreck on remote Ga. island

...curious find.Fred Boyles, National Park Service superintendent on Georgia's...said Michael Steiber, a National Park Service archaeologist trying to crack...their sightseeing lists.The National Park Service won't divulge the location...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/2013-01-20/shifting-sands-yield-mystery-shipwr
Augusta attractions

...itself and define its destiny. The Center has been developed by the Augusta Canal Authority in partnership with the National Park Service.http://www.augustacanal.com/Default.aspx?PageId=18Petersburg Boat Tours: http://www.augustacanal...

http://augusta.com/masters/attractions
Plan to preserve Gullah-Geechee Corridor from Carolinas to Fla. out for public comment

...work on developing the management plan began.The commission is taking public comments on the plan at either the National Park Service planning Web site http://parkplanning.nps.gov/guge or by writing the commission at 1214 Middle Street...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/government/2012-07-18/plan-preserve-gullah-gee
Plan aims to fix up historic S.C. lighthouse

...United States is showing its age at 50, but the National Park Service is reviewing a management plan to maintain the beacon...shining, and it is still an aid to navigation. The National Park Service maintains the light tower and associated buildings...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/2012-08-04/plan-aims-fix-historic-sc-lighthous
Elk experiment in Smokies popular with tourists

...be approximately 140 animals, counting those elk both inside and outside of National Park boundaries," said National Park Service wildlife biologist Joe Yarkovich, in a recent status report provided by the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation's...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/sports/outdoors/2012-09-01/elk-experiment-smokies-p