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Interior Activity & Accomplishments
FY 2003 Land and Water Conservation Fund - Matagorda Park & Preserve: L&WCF assisted grant amount - $2,000,000: Matagorda Bay Nature Park is a unique 1,600-acre park and preserve dedicated to providing recreation, education, preservation, and economic benefit to the region. The nature park is at the mouth of the Colorado River on the Matagorda Peninsula . It has about 2 miles of Gulf of Mexico and river frontage and hundreds of acres of fragile coastal marshes and dunes. It is the location of one of the best birding areas in the Nation. LCRA acquired the property in 2001 as part of its commitment to preserve unique natural resources for future generations and to provide hands-on science education as well as recreation and nature tourism opportunities. The proposed Phase 1 development includes; learning center, RV sites, a pavilion, two fishing piers, nature trail, roads, parking, and shower/restroom facilities. Phase 1 is scheduled to be completed in 2005. ... [Read More]

Facility Select
All 11th & Monroe Street Park 12th & Potomac & I Park 14th & Girard Street Park 17th & C & Mass. Park 18th & Michigan Park 23 & Independence 23rd & Constitution Fields 26th & I St. Park 35th & Mass Ave. Park 42nd & Wisconsin Ave. Park Adams Before & After Care Amidon Anacostia Drive Ballfields Anacostia Fitness Ctr Anacostia-Goodhope Fields Arboretum Arkansas & Emerson Park Atlantic Gardens Day Care Atlantic Terrace Day Care Bald Eagle Bancroft Before & After Care Banneker Banneker Day Care/Head Start Barry Farm Benning Park Rec Ctr Benning Stoddert Brentwood Brentwood-Hamilton Ballfield Bundy Field Carroll Building SR Carter Barron Chevy Chase CC Chevy Chase Playground Claridge Towers Congress Heights Connecticut Avenue Ofc DC Ctr for Therapeutic Deanwood Day Care/Head Start Douglass CC Dunbar Pool Dwight Mosley Athletic Cplx Early Childhood Development Ctr East Capitol Day Care Ctr East Potomac Pool Edgewood Rec Ctr Edgewo ... [Read More]

Special Events - Council Bluffs Department of Parks, Recreation, and Public Property
The Summer Concert Series is a highlight of our summer activities. Each evening includes two performances onstage in Bayliss Park. Every style of music can be heard on Wednesday evenings, beginning June 1 and ending August 24. There will also be an addiitonal concert on Tuesday, July 16th, featuring the Turfmen. A complete schedule with performers, times, and dates is posted below. ... [Read More]

Interior Activity & Accomplishments
The Park served as a research site for BRD and National Park Service scientists testing methods for mapping the vegetation in the park. Private organizations, including the Environmental Systems Research Institute and The Nature Conservancy , assisted in developing the methods and standards. Ultimately, through the combined efforts of the BRD and the National Park Service, the National Park Vegetation Mapping Program ...

Acquisition: Fourth of July Park: Federal share $452,777 - Facilities developed at this park include a skate park, an amphitheater, trails, picnic area and sports and play fields. Additional facilities that will be renovated under this grant are the playground, parking lots, restrooms, tennis courts, and basketball courts. ... [Read More]

Interior Activity & Accomplishments
The National Park Service's Federal Lands to Parks Program completed a public benefit conveyance of a 1.6 acre parcel containing an arts and craft center to the City and County of Denver in 2002. The facility, which was renovated by the City in 1998 under a lease, provides unique recreation opportunities to residents of established neighborhoods in east Denver and new communities being established at the former Air Force base. The craft center parcel is the final of three parcels at Lowry previously transferred to the city for park and recreation use, totaling over 100 acres. The Parks and Recreation Department is currently advancing plans to expand the 9,690 square foot facility into a full service community center using available local park bond funds. The Federal Lands to Parks Program coordinated the transfer of the property with the Air Force Base Conversion Agency and the City and County of Denver Department of Parks and Recreation. ... [Read More]


The NIEHS Center for Research on Environmental Disease at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Science Park Research Division, offers its Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) with yet another focus. M.D. Anderson is one of the nation's leading comprehensive cancer research centers, and the program at Science Park focuses on providing undergraduate interns with a chance to participate in cutting-edge biomedical research related to environmental causes of cancer. Local high school students can also participate in a related program paralleling the SURP. ... [Read More]

Enforcing the ADA: A Status Report, October - December 1998
-- The Departmententered into an agreement resolving a complaint brought by an individualwhose two children, both of whom are deaf/blind and have cerebral palsy,were allegedly denied access to the skating rink during a birthday partyat a facility operated by United Skates of America in Indianapolis, Indiana.The complainant alleged that he was told by the manager that his childrenwere not allowed on the skating rink floor, even with their father's assistance,and that the manager refused to set aside a time when the children, andother people with disabilities, could skate. United Skates agreed to adopta policy of nondiscrimination that will allow complete access to the skatingrink for a person with a disability unless, after the access has been allowed,an individualized assessment shows that participation by the individualwould create a direct threat to the health and safety of others. In suchcases, an offer will then be made to allow the individual to skate at atime when access would no ... [Read More]