WA Mt. Rainier gets a stamp
Washington’s Mount Rainier is getting its own stamp. It is the 13th of 16 National Parks Forever Stamp series which has been revealed over a three-week period to celebrate the National Park Service's 100th anniversary.
In a release the photographer from Pittsburgh, PA says, “This night was one I will never forget, after working with visitors at the Mount Rainier astronomy program on June 22, 2015, I noticed there was an aurora, so I drove down to Reflection Lake to capture it."
Matt Dieterich worked as an intern with the National Park Service Geoscientist-in-the-Parks.
The stamp shows the mountain with stars and a pink aurora spread throughout the background sky.
Other National Parks Forever Stamps previewed to date include Acadia National Park, Arches National Park, Assateague Island National Seashore, Bandelier National Monument, Carlsbad Caverns National Park , Everglades National Park, Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, Grand Canyon National Park, Gulf Islands National Seashore, Haleakalā National Park, Kenilworth Park &Aquatic Gardens an d Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park.
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