Yellowstone National Park announced Thursday that Mount Doane is now named First Peoples Mountain. This announcement follows a 15-0 vote affirming the change by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names (BGN), the federal body responsible for maintaining uniform geographic name usage throughout the federal government.

The White House announced on Wednesday that the Department of the Interior will reduce and eventually phase out the sale of single-use plastic products in U.S. national parks, wildlife refuges, and other public lands.

While the San Andreas Fault holds a destructive history up and down California, seismic activity is not what’s erupting these days around the riparian habitats, undulating grasslands, and bluffs that rise over the Pacific beaches of Point Reyes National Seashore.

Once billed as the most desirable property for industrial development in the Commonwealth of Virginia, the site that historians argue determined the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg is saved forever following a 16-year, $12-million fundraising campaign to ensure its protection. To seal the deal on the largest and most complex private battlefield preservation effort in the nation’s history, the American Battlefield Trust enlisted the participation of a preservation-friendly developer, a flexible financial lender and forward-thinking government officials, as well as tens of thousands of individual donors.