Yellowstone National Park recently awarded an approximately $118 million construction contract to replace the structurally deficient Yellowstone River Bridge on the Northeast Entrance Road near Tower Junction. Funded by the Great American Outdoors Act, this project will preserve year-round public access to and from the park’s Northeast Entrance and communities of Silver Gate and Cooke City, Montana.

The seemingly relentless winter that has battered Utah has spawned rock falls that have damaged roads in Zion National Park.

Two years after volunteers embarked on the path to plant 100,000 native plants at Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area in California, the task is nearly complete.

Federal agencies have been given six months to outline how they can develop or restore and protect ecological corridors, including those relied upon by wildlife during their migrations.