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California’s Mendocino Coast Readies March Whale Watching Festivals

California’s Mendocino Coast Readies March Whale Watching FestivalsMarch is whale-watching month along California's northern Mendocino Coast, and this year promises lots of fun for visitors who want to combine watching with a lot of celebrating.

Whale watching in March is all about the migration of the Eastern Pacific Gray Whale from the protected lagoons of western Baja California to their ancestral feeding grounds in the cold waters of the Bering and Chukchi Seas.
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Yosemite’s Half Dome Hiking Cables Too Popular; National Park Service Mandates Limits

Yosemite’s Half Dome Hiking Cables Too Popular; National Park Service Mandates Limits Saying it's both a matter of public safety and ensuring a positive experience, the National Park Service will set limits for how many Yosemite National Park visitors can use the popular steel cables to hike to the top of Half Dome.
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Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial Becomes 392nd National Park System Unit

Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial Becomes 392nd National Park System Unit It's the newest park in the National Park System, but you'll have a tough time visiting it if you want to stand where the greatest home front disaster of World War II actually took place.

In late October 2009, President Obama signed the Defense Author...
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Public Invited to California Coastal National Monument’s 10th Birthday Party

Public Invited to California Coastal National Monument’s 10th Birthday Party The California Coastal National Monument turns 10 years old in January, 2010 and the community of Point Arena is joining the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to celebrate with an all-day, community-wide birthday party on Jan. 10.

"This will be the firs...
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Elephant Seal Guided Walks Available at California’s Año Nuevo State Park

Elephant Seal Guided Walks Available at California’s Año Nuevo State Park Each winter a very special ritual occurs on a small section of California's rugged, lonely northern coastline, roughly 55 miles south of San Francisco: the migration of the largest mainland breeding colony in the world of northern elephant seals, who...
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