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  • **FILE** Mount Rainier National Park Ranger Matt Chalup (left) hands park information to one of the first visitors to the park at the Nisqually entrance near Ashford, Wash., on Jan. 7, 2012. (Associated Press)

    National park cuts detailed in memo

    As America's financial clock ticks toward forced spending cuts to countless government agencies, The Associated Press has obtained a National Park Service memo that compiles a list of potential effects at the nation's most beautiful and historic places just as spring vacation season beings.

  • Smog clouds the view most days from Beetle Rock in Sequoia National Park, Calif. The pollutants are making life tough for the iconic sequoias - the biggest and oldest living things on Earth - and various pines. Visitors are warned to be wary, too. (Associated Press)

    Smog a daunting hazard at Sequoia National Park

    On a clear day, the view from Beetle Rock in Sequoia National Park extends west for 105 miles across the patchwork of crops in California's agricultural heartland to the Coast Mountains and the Pacific Ocean beyond.

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