ZION NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION WINS HISTORIC PRESERVATION GRANT

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THROUGH PARTNERS IN PRESERVATION: NATIONAL PARKS CAMPAIGN Created by American Express and the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Program Celebrated the National Park Service Centennial SPRINGDALE, UTAH — July 6, 2016 — The Zion National Park Foundation today announced it will receive a $201,000 grant provided by American Express and the National Trust for Historic …

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George W. Handrahan – Inside His Head and Heart

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Anticipating the upcoming Zion National Park Plein Air Art Invitational, we hoped to share some inside thoughts and views from a participating artist in the invitational. We had a conversation with George Handrahan about painting plein air in Zion. We were pleased to not only get into his thoughts, but he opened his heart to …

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Find Your Park

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FIND YOUR PARK By Lyman Hafen “The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” ~Marcel Proust When I was growing up in St. George, Utah, in the 1960s, our town park was just three blocks up the street from my house.  We called it The City Park.  And …

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Adopt-a-Bighorn

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A resounding crack echoes through the canyons and across the slickrock expanses of Zion National Park wilderness: somewhere out there, two desert bighorn rams charge one another and clash horns in a spectacular fight for breeding rights. The Zion National Park Foundation and Zion National Park have created the Adopt-a-Bighorn program to help preserve and …

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Rockville Bridge Fundraising Event

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If you are looking for information about the 9th annual Zion National Park Plein Air Invitational, please follow this link. The Rockville Bridge event, though not officially sponsored by ZNHA or the National Park Service, features many of the same artists you will see in November. As friends, neighbors and associates, we would like to …

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The Fern and J.L. Crawford Lecture Series 2015

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2015 marks the ninth year of the Fern and J. L. Crawford Lecture Series. Created by ZCFI Director Michael Plyler in 2005, the lecture series mission is to present topics and perspectives not specifically limited to the Colorado Plateau. August 26 – Dr. Alfred Runte presents “The Enduring Legacy of our National Parks”. September 18 – has …

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Find Your Park

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I remember our family driving through Zion National Park when I was very young. Dad would have been behind the wheel of our turquoise Ford Fairlane. Mom in the front seat with him. And my little sister and I would have been up on our knees (in the days before seat belts), wide-eyed, in the …

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