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Occupy DC demonstrators spent Sunday afternoon discussing how to respond to a call by the National Park Service to stop camping overnight at sites a few blocks from the White House.

The National Park Service plans to crack down on what it calls "sleeping activity" that may take place at two longstanding camps established by "Occupy DC" demonstrators in the nation's capital, according to a letter issued by the federal agency Friday.

The National Park Service says a woman fell to her death while hiking on the Pennsylvania side of the Delaware Water Gap.

In this July 23, 2011 photo provided by the National Park Service, visitors are seen climbing Half Dome via cables in Yosemite National Park, Calif.

A female northern spotted owl in California. Spotted owls are losing habitat to invasive barred owls, a species originally from the eastern U.S.

National Park Service A female northern spotted owl in California.

The National Park Service says a Louisiana man floating on the Buffalo River in north Arkansas has collapsed and died in his canoe.

Las Vegas Herald Thursday 7th April, 2011 LAS VEGAS -- National Park Service rangers mounted horses, jumped aboard motorized rafts, and set out on foot and in helicopters to clear visitors from the Grand Canyon.They searched backcountry and rafting permits to find visitors throughout the 1.2 million-acre park and told them they had to leave within ...

It is a privately managed unit of the National Park Service. * 2,181: New estimated number of miles.

Two new proposals in Washington State could have adventure seekers paying more for their adventures in 2011 and beyond.

The National Park Service is currently seeking public input on raising the fee for the annual climbing pass on Mt.

Rainier, while Washington State DNR may be seeking a way to capitalize on their very high profile trail systems by imposing hiking fees.

The National Park Service has rejected the latest efforts to exhume the remains of explorer Meriwether Lewis and investigate his death.