Out in the parks
Get to know the plants that hold the grasslands together. Spend the day with a Forest Service botanist, key out a few species, and earn your Jr. Botanist patch.About Jr. Ranger Days: Each Jr. Ranger Day highlights a specialist field within the U.S. Forest Service, with special guests, hands-on activities for kids of all ages, […]
Martin Gilmore is scheduled to present his program The History of the American West Through Song on Friday, July 17 at 7:00 p.m. at the Scotts Bluff National Monument Visitor Center Amphitheater, located at 190276 Old Oregon Trail in Gering, NE.Join Martin Gilmore for a musical journey through traditional and original folk songs connected to […]
Join Martin Gilmore for a musical journey where he will present traditional and original folk
songs connected to the history and landscape of the American West.
Meet the animals that call the Black Hills home. The Wild Side of the Black Hills introduces the many animals of the region and the roles each one plays in keeping the ecosystem healthy.Drop in between 1 and 4 p.m., learn with a Forest Service presenter, and make a plaster footprint of a native Black […]
Head to the quiet Wyoming corner of the Black Hills for a campfire sing-along in the Bear Lodge Mountains. Sally Svenson, the Songbird of the Black Hills, plays her original songs and shares the stories behind them at Reuter Campground. Music starts at 7:30 p.m.Getting there: Reuter Campground is near Sundance, Wyoming, off Warren Peak […]
Read the clues people left on the land over thousands of years. Spend the day with a Forest Service archaeologist, see how the past gets pieced together, and earn your Jr. Archaeologist patch.About Jr. Ranger Days: Each Jr. Ranger Day highlights a specialist field within the U.S. Forest Service, with special guests, hands-on activities for […]
Join Jewel Cave National Monument for a day of cave related crafts and activities!
Meet the night shift. Join Wildlife Biologist Amy Hammesfahr at the Little Elk Creek Trail for a guided hike into the world of bats. You’ll learn what makes these mammals such important members of the Black Hills ecosystem, how they navigate and feed after dark, and the adaptations that let them thrive at night. Good […]
Wind Cave National Park protects two very different worlds: the open prairie above and the intricate cave below. On clear nights a third world blankets both, the brilliant night sky over the southern Black Hills.Join a park ranger who ties the majesty of the night sky to the story of the park, pointing out and […]
National Grasslands Visitor Center staff will be presenting interpretive programs every other Monday at Badlands National Park’s Cedar Pass Amphitheater throughout the summer.
Learn to read the landscape of western Nebraska. Park Ranger Christian Hedrick presents “Ethnobotany of the High Plains,” an evening program on the native plants of the High Plains and how people have identified, used, and ethically harvested some of the region’s greatest natural treasures.The program begins inside the Scotts Bluff National Monument Visitor Center […]
Dig into the deep past of the grasslands, back to when this was the floor of an ancient sea and home to creatures long gone. Spend the day with a Forest Service paleontologist and earn your Jr. Paleontologist patch.About Jr. Ranger Days: Each Jr. Ranger Day highlights a specialist field within the U.S. Forest Service, […]
