National Parks Content / National Parks Content for UC º£½ÇÔ­´´ en How Wildlife Navigated National Parks Before and During the COVID ‘Anthropause’ /blog/how-wildlife-navigated-national-parks-and-during-covid-anthropause <p><span lang="EN-CA">The presence of humans and human infrastructure in U.S. national parks has lasting effects on the behaviors of the large animals that call them home, according to a new study.&nbsp;</span></p> July 30, 2025 - 5:10am Katherine E Kerlin /blog/how-wildlife-navigated-national-parks-and-during-covid-anthropause UC º£½ÇÔ­´´ Historians Receive National Parks Funding to Collect Women’s Stories /curiosity/news/uc-davis-historians-receive-national-parks-funding-collect-womens-stories-1 <p>Two University of California, º£½ÇÔ­´´, historians have received funding from the National Park Service to address the educational gap in U.S. women’s history and role in the nation’s national parks. Professors Ellen Hartigan-O’Connor and&nbsp;Lisa&nbsp;Materson will craft 80 biographies of women involved in national parks in the western region of the United States, and, in a longer article, connect those women’s lives to the ongoing struggle for voting rights.</p> September 02, 2020 - 4:30pm Karen Michele Nikos-Rose /curiosity/news/uc-davis-historians-receive-national-parks-funding-collect-womens-stories-1 Turtles, Pesticides and Parks /news/turtles-pesticides-and-parks <p>Western pond turtles in Sequoia National Park and other California remote wildlands have been exposed to an assortment of agricultural pesticides and industrial contaminants, according to a study from the National Park Service and UC&nbsp;º£½ÇÔ­´´.&nbsp;</p> April 20, 2016 - 1:23pm Katherine E Kerlin /news/turtles-pesticides-and-parks