Since the late 1970s, the NPS Air Resources Division (ARD) has managed a comprehensive air quality program, emphasizing the collection of credible air quality information to support scientifically sound resource management decisions in parks. In general, air quality monitoring in parks, including monitoring of atmospheric deposition, ozone, and visibility, is done in conjunction with national networks. The authors describe the atmospheric deposition monitoring protocol.

The Red Hawk is a fictional account of how people in the very real Chaushilha Native American village of Shehamniu dealt with the events of 1849 to 1865. It weaves adventure, history and romance into a compelling story based on true events of the mid-19th century, such as the Gold Rush, the Mariposa War, the Civil War, tuberculosis epidemics, early settlers' education, advances in agricultural technology and a great flood. It is the early history of Chowchilla, California, where author Ellen Porter lived from 1964 to 1983, and where her family lived from 1930 to 2009. At Chowchilla High...

The Red Hawk is historical fiction focusing on the Native American character of Wabakashiek, the village he was born into, and the family he is taken in by. Wabakashiek becomes William Redskin and lays the foundation for him, his wife and their offspring to become leading citizens of a future city, Chowchilla, California. The Red Hawk mixes history, adventure and romance into a compelling tale of how the local high school's first mascot for its first century, Reddy Redskin, may have come into being.