Valley Forge National Historical Park News

Two animal advocacy groups filed a lawsuit to delay Valley Forge National Historical Park's plan to shoot more than 1,000 deer in the next four years.

Sue to Stop National Park Service Deer Control Plans Suit challenges plan to kill nearly 80 percent of deer living at Valley Forge Contacts: Lee Hall, Legal Director, Friends of Animals E-mail: leehall[AT]friendsofanimals.org Internet:A www.friendsofanimals.org Local Internet: www.foaphilly.org Michael Harris, Director of the Environmental Law ...

Opponents of a plan to kill hundreds of deer at Valley Forge National Historical Park are asking members of Congress to halt the effort before the shooting starts.

Friday night is movie night at Valley Forge National Historical Park. Need to bone up on your Revolutionary War history? Plan a trip to Valley Forge National Historical Park , and catch a Revolutionary War-themed movie at the same time.

Activists opposed to the plan to kill massive numbers of deer at Valley Forge National Historical Park have begun lobbying members of Congress to try to stop the shooting before it starts.

Independence National Historical Park will hold a public session Monday on the proposed land swap by which the private National Center for the American Revolution would assume ownership of the southeast corner of Third and Chestnut Streets in the heart of the park and the city's historic district.

As summer turns into fall, images of brilliant foliage and festivals with apples, cider and pumpkins as the main attractions come to mind.

Valley Forge National Historical Park is awash in brilliant golds, reds and oranges as the leaves begin to turn during the autumn season.

In a leafy Montgomery County township just weeks from a November election to elect supervisors, a three-front legal battle from the May Republican primary is still raging.

Dawn in Shenendoah Now that you've re-watched your DVR'd copies of Ken Burns' documentary, The National Parks: America's Best Idea," are you itching to get out to the national park nearest you? Try one of this weekend's events in parks all across the country.

Valley Forge National Historical Park officials have settled on a plan to use sharpshooters to reduce deer herds in the park.

VALLEY FORGE, Pa. - October 6, 2009 -- A hunt is planned for Valley Forge National Park to trim the herd of deer there.

Officials at Valley Forge National Historical Park said yesterday that they would begin shooting massive numbers of deer, possibly as soon as next month, rejecting a Villanova activist's proposal to shrink the herd through contraception.

Friends of Animals' Third Vigil for the Valley Forge Deer took place on an overcast Saturday just west of Philadelphia.

Twelve events, from ethnic festivals to craft fairs, will take place in the Valley Forge area and Montgomery County, Pa., this fall.

In an unmarked warehouse on the outskirts of Philadelphia, two blue cardboard boxes contain some of the great treasures of the American Revolution.

A view inside Washington Memorial Chapel at Valley Forge National Historical Park.

Washington Memorial Chapel was founded in 1903 to commemorate the country's first war hero where he staged perhaps his greatest military feat: Valley Forge National Historical Park.

The news that planners of the American Revolution Center would abandon Valley Forge for Philadelphia generated real excitement in the city.

The American Revolution Center's decision to move to Philadelphia extends a nine-year record of switching rather than fighting.