Remains May Be Tourists Missing 13 Years Nov 15, 2009
DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif. Nov. 14, 2009. (CBS News)
Family travel five: Resorts offer snowballs, tubing and other family fun Nov 3, 2009
The 508-mile endurance cycling race traverses Death Valley National Park and is held every October. As you plan your winter snow vacation, consider small or midsize resorts. (Fresno Bee -- Lifestyle)
Santa Clara County to settle patrol car death Oct 9, 2009
The 508-mile endurance cycling race traverses Death Valley National Park and is held every October. Events, News 8/13. (Fresno Bee -- State)
* World News Quick Take Aug 25, 2009
The accident happened on Saturday morning on State Route 190 in Californias Death Valley National Park, about 60km west of Las Vegas, Captain Tim Lepper said. The driver of the rented passenger van, 31-year-old Nassera Soudani of Levallois Perret, France, will likely be charged with vehicular manslaughter, Lepper said. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Sports)
French Teens Killed In California Bus Crash Aug 24, 2009
The French consul in Los Angeles, David Martinon, says the group was traveling from Las Vegas to California's Death Valley National Park. Lepper says a 16-year-old girl and 17-year-old girl were killed, and four other teenagers were injured, two of them seriously. (KLAS-TV)
Historical park trains kids to be Jr. Rangers Aug 22, 2009
Before that she worked at Death Valley National Park in California and while there she updated the junior park ranger guide, she said. Another of Wolfes duties is to oversee the education program. (Nogales International, AZ)
Run your race, but don't be in a rush Aug 12, 2009
"There's no place I'd rather be," Corbin says from atop Towne Pass (elevation 4,956) in Death Valley National Park. Ready, set, run. (Fresno Bee)
Park Service Plans to Revamp Devil's Hole Site Aug 7, 2009
It's managed as a detached unit of Death Valley National Park. Renovations are intended to protect the small neon blue fish from intruders and vandals while adding visitor interpretive and educational opportunities. (KLAS-TV)
Scientists checking Nevada Test Site groundwater Aug 1, 2009
Wilborn, the Energy Department geologist, said preliminary indications are the contamination won't reach Beatty, a Nye County community of about 1,000 residents some 115 miles from Las Vegas and midway between the test site and Death Valley National Park. Instead, perhaps hundreds or 1,000 years from now it will head between Beatty and Yucca Mountain, where the Department of Energy had planned to dispose of the nation's spent nuclear fuel until the Obama administration declared the site not an... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Science)
Ancient mammal tracks found at national monument Jul 24, 2009
DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK - No one gets to Saline Valley by accident ... Saline Valley has undergone some changes since those halcyon hippie days -- notably its 1994 incorporation into Death Valley National Park -- but the original theme remains: "This is a place where people come to get away from the world," said Lee Greenwell, a year-round dweller who serves as campground host. (Fresno Bee -- Nation)
Thumbs up, thumbs down Jul 18, 2009
Lopez finished in 24 hours, 36 minutes and 7 seconds after leaving the starting line in Death Valley National Park. The course runs from Badwater to 8,360-foot Whitney Portal at the base of Mount Whitney. (Fresno Bee)
Flirting with the elephant on the road (Yesterday) Jul 13, 2009
Gleason, a 51-year-old Cranberry resident who, as an accomplished ultramarathoner has run 100 miles more than many people have driven 100 miles, and his six-person support crew were flying to Las Vegas this weekend and rolling two vans the remaining 75 miles west to California's Death Valley National Park. The race starts at Badwater, which at 280 feet below sea level is the lowest point in North America, and ends at Mt. Whitney, which is 8,360 feet above sea level. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA -- Sports)
Public visitation to be at man's Ohio restaurant May 28, 2009
Visitation for an Ohio businessman who died hiking in California's Death Valley National Park will be held at the restaurant he founded. More News. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Weird News)
Charles Manson's last hideout burns May 8, 2009
DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif ... Death Valley National Park spokesman Terry Baldino said Thursday that the isolated cabin was discovered burned on Tuesday. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
My View: Solar gold rush puts public lands at risk Apr 28, 2009
Proposals to develop water-guzzling solar facilities in the Amargosa Valley near Death Valley National Park would pit renewable energy against desert pupfish, local agriculture and the city of Las Vegas. Fourth, government investment in decentralized solar power should be at least as great as its investment in centralized solar. (Sacramento Bee -- Opinion)
Desert clash over solar power, water Apr 19, 2009
Mike Bower, left,a biologistwith the National Park Service,with Fish and Wildlife Service field supervisor Cynthia Martinez in Devil's Hole, the endangered Devil's Hole pupfish's only natural habitat, in Death Valley National Park in Nevada. . (MSNBC -- Environment)
Desert clash in West over solar potential, water Apr 19, 2009
This undated handout file photo provided by Death Valley National Park, shows an endangered Devil's Hole Pupfish. A westward dash to power electricity-hungry cities by cashing in on the desert's most abundant resource sunshine is clashing with efforts to protect the tiny pupfish and desert tortoise and stinginess over the region's rarest resource: water. (Sierra Vista Herald, AZ)
Solar finds it hard to squeeze water from desert Apr 18, 2009
AP Photo - FILE - In this April 6, 2006 file photo, information posted concerning the Devil's Hole Pupfish is seen through a protective fence at Devil's Hole, the endangered fish's only natural habitat, in Death Valley National Park, Nev ... AP Photo - FILE - In this April 6, 2006 file photo, biologist Mike Bower, with the National Park Service, left, speaks with Fish and Wildlife Service field supervisor Cynthia Martinez, in Devil's Hole, the endangered Devil's Hole Pupfish's only natural... (Fresno Bee -- Local)
Unforgiving Saline Valley promises only adventure Mar 29, 2009
DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK -- No one gets to Saline Valley by accident ... Saline Valley has undergone some changes since those halcyon hippie days -- notably its 1994 incorporation into Death Valley National Park -- but the original theme remains: "This is a place where people come to get away from the world," said Lee Greenwell, a year-round dweller who serves as campground host ... The dirt road that leads to the warm springs at Saline Valley in the northwest part of Death Valley National... (Fresno Bee)
Breaking barriers on and off the field Mar 24, 2009
Reynolds is a bronze century club member and was the head ranger with the National Park Services at Death Valley National Park until January 2008, when he retired. Williams works with Caring Aggie Mentorship Program (CAMP). (The Battalion, TX)
Chill out in Death Valley National ... Mar 22, 2009
Chill out in Death Valley National Park: Southern California desert monument epitomizes the American West ... Chill out in Death Valley National Park ... Chill out in Death Valley National Park. (Suite101.com)
Feinstein seeks block solar power from desert land Mar 22, 2009
In this Friday, July 22, 2005 file photo, a rainbow forms in rainy skies over State Highway 178 between Death Valley National Park and the town of Shoshone, Calif. More than 500,000 acres in the Mojave Desert would be off-limits to wind or solar energy production under legislation Sen. (Chippewa Falls Chippewa Herald, WI)
Five places to see wildflowers in the desert Mar 22, 2009
Death Valley National Park. It seems impossible that the normally barren fields along Highway 190 through Death Valley turn bright yellow with wildflowers each February, below, but they do. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)
