WASHINGTON-
An innovative volunteer program in Yellowstone National Park was one of four winners of national preservation awards.
Tauck World Discovery, a tour operator based in Norwalk, Conn., offers a program in which visitors to Yellowstone can contribute a day's work on preservation projects.
Tauck and the other winners were recognized with Preserve America Presidential Awards, presented in a ceremony at the White House on May 1.
Other awards went to:
–A project in Tallahassee, Fla., to rebuild the Mission San Luis, a 17th-century Spanish mission.
–Hampton Hotels' "Save-A-Landmark" program, which supplies funding and volunteer work to preserve landmarks ranging from a one-room school house in Michigan to the world's tallest Santa Claus in North Pole, Alaska.
–The Maryland Heritage Areas Program, which encourages the linking of preservation efforts and tourism. Projects include promoting Civil War history and the unique ecology and culture of the Eastern Shore.
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