1. Protection of Volunteers - VIP Program
(Documents)

Volunteers working on the Appalachian Trail under the auspices of either the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) or the National Park Service (NPS) are entitled to certain protections as authorized by two separate ...

2. NPS Announces Recovery Act Projects
(Documents)

The National Park Service (NPS) announcement of nearly 800 projects totaling $750 million to be completed across the country with funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. This major ...

3. Martha Bogle Named Superintendent of Shenandoah National Park
(Documents)

Announcement that National Park Service (NPS) Northeast Regional Director Dennis Reidenbach selected Martha Bogle as the superintendent of Shenandoah National Park in Virginia.  ...

4. Appalachian Trail Volunteer Injury Instructions
(Documents)

A volunteer working on the Appalachian National Scenic Trail (A.T.) is officially a volunteer of either the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) or the National Park Service (NPS), and is entitled to certain protections. ...

5. Appalachian National Scenic Trail Relocation Proposal
(News/Current News)

... This section lies on federal land managed by the NPS Appalachian Trail Park Office adjacent to the South District of Shenandoah National Park north of the Rockfish Gap Entrance Station to the Skyline Drive. ...

6. Trails Coordinator Furlough
(The Stacks/News Archives)

... vacant, I will be furloughed (or “laid-off”) for at least 14 weeks starting November 22nd. For those of you unfamiliar with NPS employment, these furloughs are quite common. Hopefully, like last year, ...

7. Spring In The South District
(The Stacks/District Manager Archives)

... themselves shouldn’t be affected; just certain rock outcrops near a trail. NPS & The Recovery Act The National Park Service, Northeast Region recently announced plans to use $750M from the American ...

8. Injuries to Volunteers: VIP Program
(Overseers/Health & Safety)

... must get it as soon as possible.) PATC members who work in Shenandoah National Park are enrolled in the NPS Volunteers-In-Parks program through the Memorandum of Agreement between the Club and the ...

9. Keeping Trails Worth Maintaining
(Maintenance/Trail Maintenance)

... You Can Do This is somewhat limited. Volunteers can pull and cut things. On a Park-wide scale, herbicides are probably needed, but volunteers are not allowed to use them. NPS does not want everything ...

10. 2008 District Report
(The Stacks/District Manager Archives)

... burn by Blackrock Gap PATC and this district manager had little, if anything, to do with this project, conducted in a thoroughly professional manner by the NPS Fire Crew in Shenandoah National Park. ...

11. First Annual South District Trail Maintenance Workshop
(The Stacks/News Archives)

... the power of their spare time at the first annual South District Trail Maintenance Workshop. In addition to the fourteen PATC volunteers, we were privileged to have Roger Dovel and his NPS trail crew ...

12. Black Rock Prescribed Burn
(The Stacks/News Archives)

... Specialist for NPS units from Virginia to Maine, for this. The introductions and summary of the report are presented here. You can also download a copy of the full report from the Shenandoah National ...

13. How Many Times...
(The Stacks/District Manager Archives)

... Mountain on the western side across the summit and ridge and portions of the high eastern side are held by the National Park Service…two different elements of the NPS, Shenandoah National Park and the ...

14. We Arrived, We Met, We ATE!
(The Stacks/District Manager Archives)

... Park official has been discovered with solid evidence indicative of his complicity with the PATC and their nefarious activities. A man known only by the code name, “John Hedrick,” presented the NPS official, ...

15. Hut? Shelter?
(History/Park History)

... Park re-opened some huts, but removed a few permanently. As a result of the negotiations  between the Park, the Appalachian Trail Conference (now Conservancy), the NPS Appalachian Trail Project (now ...

16. It’s a Living Trail!
(The Stacks/News Archives)

Those Who Braved the Elements on Calf Mountain On Sunday, April 4th, a hardy group of PATCers (plus one suspected NPS resource manager) gathered in the fog, mist, and rain at the Beagle Gap Parking ...

17. SNP Rock Outcrop Management Plan
(The Stacks/News Archives)

... steve_bair@nps.gov Wendy Cass Botanist (540)999-3432 wendy_cass@nps.gov  ...

18. ATC Proposed Accessibility Guidelines
(The Stacks/News Archives)

October 2007—The Appalachian Trail Conservancy submitted comments to the US Access Board earlier this month in response to proposed rules regarding accessibility guidelines for federally managed outdoor ...

19. SNP Natural Resources Web portal
(Web Links / Government Partners)

This link takes you to the Natural and Cultural Resources portal of the NPS SNP Web site. ...

20. Shenandoah National Park
(Web Links / Government Partners)

Shenandoah National Park was formally established in 1935, but had been planned since 1927. Early PATC members played key roles in the promotion of the Park. Visit the Web site for this most-visited Park ...