American Memorial Park

The July 1944 Battle of Saipan, between American and Japanese forces, had devastating effects for the surviving Indigenous civilians. These Chamorro women lost their homes in a war not of their making. When the bombardment began, they carried only what they valued most: their children and a cross. They lived in bleak conditions in U.S. internment camps for two years before rebuilding their homes and villages.

As climate changes, significant changes in weather conditions impact the natural environment by shifting patterns of precipitation, promoting extremes in storm behavior, and influencing bird migration, invasive species spread, coral reef decline, and much more. The Pacific Island Network (PACN) undertakes systematic long-term monitoring of a wide variety of natural resources to accurately determine if change is occurring and why.

Each park-specific page in the NPS Geodiversity Atlas provides basic information on the significant geologic features and processes occurring in the park.

Via a partnership among the National Park Service, AmeriCorps, and the Kupu ʻĀina Corps, a conservation nonprofit in Hawaii, five young adult residents of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands are working on wildfire recovery and climate change-related resilience projects in parks in those two U.S. territories.

To steward amphibians effectively, managers need basic information about which species live in parks. But species lists need constant maintenance to remain accurate. Due to recent efforts, the National Park Service now has an up-to-date amphibian species checklist for almost 300 parks. This information can serve as the basis for innumerable conservation efforts across the nation.