Mount Rainier National Park will receive more than $72,600 from Washington’s National Park Fund. The money will be used for restoration of the Paradise meadows, for volunteer outreach and for the programs Camping Adventure with My Parents and Connecting Kids to Parks. The money is part of $200,000 the fund is giving to the state’s three national parks.

North Cascades National Park will receive $55,000 for a volunteer shelter at Marblemount, botanical forays and landbird inventory and monitoring.

Olympic National Park will receive more than $72,600 for a study and to protect Roosevelt elk, to monitor fisher restoration efforts and to assess and conserve Olympic marmot populations.

Learn more at www.wnpf.org.

 • The Mount Rainier National Park Associates has a work party planned for July 18 to help a wildflower planting work party at Paradise. Because of construction in the area and early season snow last fall, park staff members were unable to get the plants in the ground. The season closed with 56,000 greenhouse plants remaining to be planted, said a park staff member.

The July 18 project will help complete the landscape work around the new Henry M. Jackson Memorial Visitor Center, which opened last October.

Volunteers will meet in the Paradise upper parking lot, near the visitors center, between 8:30 and 9 a.m. and will work until at least 3 p.m. Volunteers need to bring a sun hat, sun screen and rain gear. If you are interested in joining the associates, contact John Titland, the group’s volunteer coordinator, at volunteer@ mount-rainier.org.

Jeffrey P. Mayor, The News Tribune