Thanksgiving Comes Early For Eight National Parks

(Marylhurst, Oregon) The Parks Company today awarded it’s largest round of cash contributions to America’s National Parks as profit sharing grants were made to help fund nine park improvement and educational projects.

The Parks Company, publishers of the National Park Catalog of park themed merchandise, voluntarily donates 5% of its sales to individual national parks through their support groups. The Parks Company has now raised over $20,000 for the parks in 26 months of business.

Just in time for critical National Park Fall programs, The Parks Company has made grants of $1,000 each to: Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona, to help pay for plants that students will use in the "School To Work" habitat restoration project; to the Friends of Crater Lake National Park in Oregon, to help pay to construct a new trail to the Park Headquarters Historic District; to the Sequoia Fund in California, to pay for signs identifying trees and plants surrounding the Visitor Center at Ash Mountain in Sequoia National Parks; to Big Bend National History Association in Texas, to pay for "Desert Mountain Overlook, an interpretive wayside exhibit in the National Park.

$1000 grants were also awarded to the Isle Royale Natural History Association in Michigan, to help pay for production of a book documenting the park’s "Artist in Residence" program; to the Rocky Mountain National Park Association in Colorado, to help fund development and construction of educational exhibits for a new visitor center; and a $1000 grant was made to the Grand Canyon Association in Arizona, to help fund the Exhibit Program in the Historic Kolb Studio on the edge of the South Rim.

Reaching all the way to the Caribbean, a $662.00 grant is being made to the Friends of The Virgin Islands National Park to help pay for design and production of a new interpretive sign featuring information on the archaeology dig at Cinnamon Bay.

"We created our National Park Catalog to celebrate America’s parks and to help support them by donating part of each sale we make back to the parks," according to Founding Partner, Joe Galliani. "We’re on a mission to hand the parks over to the next generation in better shape than we found them."

"We’re especially proud to be making our grants to the non-profit groups who work every day to maintain, improve and interpret the parks they support," adds Founding Partner, Mike Baggetta. "We admire and appreciate the work they do and we encourage everyone to join and support these groups."

The just published Parks Company Third Edition National Park Catalog
is available for free on line at www.theparksco.com or through the mail by calling toll free 1-888-727-5726.