On Sunday, July 10, 47 college students, from 17 states around the country will descend on Grand Canyon National Park to learn the art of facilitating an alternative break experience. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/09jul10_news.htm

At approximately 9:15 p.m. on Sunday, July 11, the Grand Canyon Regional Communications Center received a report of a man seen exiting a car at Moran Point, climbing over a retaining wall and lying down on the edge of the canyon rim. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/12jul10-2_news.htm

Grand Canyon National Park Superintendent Steve Martin recently welcomed two new division chiefs to the park’s management team. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/13jul10_news.htm

The National Park Service and its partner Grand Canyon Youth designed this pilot program to get youth into the outdoors and inspired by the unique scenery and resources of Grand Canyon National Park. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/22jul10_news.htm

The National Park Service (NPS) has purchased six low-floor accessible compressed natural gas (CNG) powered transit buses to be used as part of the visitor transportation system on the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/2aug10_news.htm

Under clear blue skies the National Park Service and Havasupai tribal members held a ribbon cutting ceremony today for newly constructed housing in Supai Camp located within Grand Canyon National Park. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/5aug10-2_news.htm

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Grand Canyon National Park fire managers plan to conduct two prescribed fires on the South Rim this week. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/2010-09-13_rx.htm

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A kayaker who died yesterday in Grand Canyon National Park has been identified as 42 year-old Scott Foster of Bend, Oregon. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/2011-01-11_ident.htm

Jane Lyder, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks, U.S. Department of the Interior, has been named acting superintendent of Grand Canyon National Park. Lyder will assume her new duties in early February. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/2011-01-20_super.htm

On February 7 - 9, 2011, Grand Canyon Railway, in consultation with the National Park Service (NPS), will be applying herbicide along their railroad tracks including those within Grand Canyon National Park. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/2011-01-25_hervicide.htm

The National Park Service is now accepting applications for noncommercial river trip permits to raft the Colorado River through Grand Canyon National Park. The permits are for specific launch dates within calendar year 2012. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/2011-02-01_lottery.htm

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On Saturday, March 19, 2011, Grand Canyon National Park will host Archeology Day in honor of “Arizona Archaeology and Heritage Awareness Month.” https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/2011-02-28_arch_day.htm

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The National Park Service (NPS) will soon complete the installation of nine new water bottle filling stations in Grand Canyon National Park, making access to free Grand Canyon spring water easier than ever before. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/2011-03-16_h2o.htm

The National Park Service (NPS) continues to work with the Coconino County Sheriff’s Office to refine its search for a plane which may have gone down in Grand Canyon National Park on Friday, March 11. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/2011-03-23_missing.htm

Two hikers were injured yesterday in a human-caused rock fall incident on the South Kaibab Trail below the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/2011-03-30_rock-fall.htm

Grand Canyon National Park will be joining national park units across the country in celebrating National Park Week by waiving entrance fees April 16 – 24, 2011. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/2011-03-31_fee-free.htm

Grand Canyon National Park will Celebrate Wildlife Day on Saturday, May 7 this year; and television host Jack Hanna will be joining in the celebration. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/2011-04-08_cwd.htm

Beginning Monday, April 18, 2011, the National Park Service will begin showing an interpretive/orientation film at a newly constructed theater located at the Grand Canyon Visitor Center on the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/2011-04-14_film.htm

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Vegetation Program to Apply Herbicide within Developed Areas of Grand Canyon National Park https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/vegetation-program-to-apply-herbicide-within-developed-areas-of-grand-canyon-national-park.htm

Grand Canyon National Park will Celebrate Wildlife Day on Saturday, May 7; and wildlife expert Jack Hanna will be joining in the celebration. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/2011-04-26_cwd.htm

National Park Service Begins Process to Revise Backcountry Management Plan for Grand Canyon National Park https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/national-park-service-begins-process-to-revise-backcountry-management-plan-for-grand-canyon-national-park.htm

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A woman who suffered fatal injuries in a fall in Grand Canyon National Park on Thursday, April 28, has been identified. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/2011-05-03_fatality.htm

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Shuttle bus service between Grand Canyon National Park and neighboring town of Tusayan to resume for season https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/shuttle-bus-service-between-grand-canyon-national-park-and-neighboring-town-of-tusayan-to-resume-for-season.htm

Fire Mangers in Grand Canyon National Park are making plans for the Watson Prescribed Fire on the South Rim of the park. Weather permitting, the Watson Rx will be initiated within the next 30 days. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/2011-05-12_sr-rx.htm

The twenty-first annual Grand Canyon Star Party will be held from Saturday, June 18 through Saturday, June 25, 2011 on the South and North Rims of Grand Canyon National Park. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/2011-05-25_star.htm

Grand Canyon fire managers are making plans to initiate the Walla Valley Prescribed Fire within the next few weeks on the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/2011-05-26_walla.htm

Intermountain Regional Director John Wessels today announced that Mount Rainier Superintendent David Uberuaga has been named Superintendent of Grand Canyon National Park. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/2011-06-01_uberuaga.htm

On Tuesday, June 7, Grand Canyon firefighters responded to two separate human-caused fires in Grand Canyon National Park. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/2011-06-08_fire.htm

In April 2011, five students from Bigfork High School Cave Club (Bigfork, MT) and their sponsor spent a week with Grand Canyon National Park Hydrologist and Cave Resources Manager, Steve Rice, conducting cave resource inventories, impact analysis, and repeat photography of several backcountry cave sites. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/bigfork-high-school-cave-club-completes-inventory-and-impact-mapping-of-caves-in-grand-canyon-national-park.htm

In late June 2011, the National Park Service, in cooperation with the Bureau of Reclamation, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Arizona Game and Fish Department will translocate wild juvenile humpback chub to Shinumo Creek and to Havasu Creek below Beaver Falls in Grand Canyon National Park. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/translocation-of-endangered-humpback-chub-to-shinumo-and-havasu-creeks-in-grand-canyon-national-park-to-occur-in-june.htm

Park is one of twenty-one national parks to receive a grant from the National Park Foundation to support interactive and engaging projects designed to strengthen Americans’ connection with their national parks https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/grand-canyon-national-park-awarded-park-stewards-grant-from-national-park-foundation.htm

William (Billy) Driscoll was found yesterday as the National Park Service and the Coconino County Sheriff's office, with the assistance of the Department of Public Safety, made plans to ramp up search efforts. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/2011-06-08_search.htm

On Wednesday, June 15, Grand Canyon National celebrated the completion of two years of improvements to the Mather Point and Grand Canyon Visitor Center area, and hundreds showed up to join in the celebration. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/2011-06-21_event.htm

Grand Inspiration participants developed a collection of paintings, creative writing, and photographs that will be on display at Grand Canyon National Park Headquarters from July 8 – August 8, 2011. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/2011-06-29_grin.htm

The Superintendent is implementing the first stages of fire restrictions in the park, beginning June 30. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/2011-06-29_restrict.htm

Due to the onset of monsoons and recent precipitation the National Park Service (NPS) lifted fire restrictions on the South and North Rims of Grand Canyon National Park effective immediately. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/fire-restrictions-lifted-at-grand-canyon-national-park.htm

Tom Shehan was recently selected as the new Administrative Officer for Grand Canyon National Park. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/2011-07-14_shehan.htm

Grand Canyon National Park’s Division of Science and Resource Management will host a public open house on July 25 in the Grand Canyon Lodge Auditorium on the North Rim from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/behind-the-scenes-science-and-resource-management-staff-to-host-public-open-house-in-the-grand-canyon-lodge-on-the-north-rim-of-grand-canyon-national-park.htm

Grand Canyon National Park was recently awarded a National Park Foundation grant to support the launch of Grand Canyon Active Trails, a new, innovative project that encourages community members and visitors alike to get out and explore their national park. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/2011-07-21_active-trails.htm

Progress on a multi-use Greenway trail linking Grand Canyon National Park with the gateway town of Tusayan continues. The eight mile trail passes through both Grand Canyon National Park and Kaibab National https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/progress-on-multi-use-trail-connecting-grand-canyon-national-park-with-gateway-town-of-tusayan-continues.htm

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As weather conditions allow, South Rim fire crews will begin burning piles of woody debris in the vicinity Market Plaza and the Grand Canyon School. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/2011-07-28_sr-piles.htm

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