The Cleveland, Los Padres and San Bernardino National Forests are participating in a one-year visitor survey called the National Visitor Use Monitoring. The survey will be conducted from Oct. 1, 2013 to Sept. 30, 2014. Interviewers will be stationed at key forest roads or exits from recreation areas. They will ask national forest visitors what…

Above: Barry and Linda Shapiro with the Town Crier on Oct. 3 at the Ice Museum at Chena Hot Springs, Alaska. Everything in the museum is made from ice, even the glass for an apple martini. Below: Donald Sherman (center) shares his Town Crier, which has the latest news from America, with his British friends…