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Free admission Sept. 27 at all Park Service locations

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All Park Service sites, including Yellowstone and Grand Teton, will offer free visitor admission Saturday, Sept. 27, in honor of National Public Lands Day.

Entrance fees, including commercial tour entrance fees and transportation entrance fees, will be waived.

A seven-day pass to Yellowstone and Grand Teton normally is $25 for a private, non-commercial vehicle.

National Public Lands Day began in 1994 with three federal agencies and 700 volunteers. Now in its 15th year, National Public Lands Day is the country's largest hands-on volunteer effort to improve and enhance America's public lands.

Eight federal agencies and many state and local lands participate.

In 2007, 110,000 volunteers worked in 1,300 locations and in every state on projects such as building bridges and trails, planting trees and native vegetation and removing trash and invasive plants.

In celebration of the day, Yellowstone is looking for volunteers to participate in trail work along the Wapiti Lake Trail in the Canyon area.

Participants are asked to meet at the Wapiti Lake picnic area parking lot at 9 a.m. Saturday. Hot drinks and snacks will be provided.

Free camping is being offered at the Norris Campground on the night of Sept. 26.

To arrange for a camping waiver call (307) 344-2052 before Sept. 24.

In Grand Teton Park, officials will host a presentation by author Alfred Runte at 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 27.

His talk will be presented in the Director's Room at the Craig Thomas Discovery and Visitor Center in Moose.

The presentation is free and open to the public.

It will be followed by a book signing in the center's bookstore.

Runte is an environmental historian and former college educator who taught at five major institutions of higher education, including Baylor University in Waco, Texas, and the University of Washington in Seattle.

His literary works focus on parks, conservation and public transportation.

Other federal agencies offering free admittance on National Public Lands Day include the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the BLM, the Bureau of Reclamation, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and the Forest Service.

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