Proposals ranging from no barriers to visitation in the National Park System to better management of visitors entering and exploring parks were floated Tuesday during a House subcommittee hearing on how to deal with overcrowded parks, but no consensus materialized and whether the issue will be revisited in the next Congress remains to be seen.

Environmental Protection Agency officials are recommending that the Bristol Bay watershed in Alaska be protected from becoming a disposal site for wastes associated with the proposed Pebble Mine that, if approved, would lie at the headwaters of two of the largest tributaries of Bristol Bay, and is directly between Lake Clark National Park and Preserve and Katmai National Park and Preserve.

The cost of a reservation system to handle front-country camping at Congaree National Park in South Carolina is driving the cost of camping there a bit higher.

A slow motion eruption of sorts is continuing on the Mauna Loa volcano in Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park, with a sluggish stream of lava heading towards a highway that bisects the Big Island.