National Park Service Director Chuck Sams on Thursday said Interior Department leadership teams are working to muster the resources to help Yellowstone National Park recovery from this week's catastrophic flooding.

The Reds Meadow Road at Devils Postpile National Monument in California is scheduled to open Friday, providing public access to the monument, Rainbow Falls, Reds Meadow Resort and recreation sites, trailheads and campgrounds in the Reds Meadow Valley.

Nearly $10 million is being spent at New River Gorge National Park and Preserve and Gauley River National Recreation Area in West Virginia to restore areas impacted years ago by oil and gas well sites that have since been abandoned. Overall, bureaus within the Departments of the Interior and Agriculture will address 277 high-priority wells that pose threats to human health and safety, the climate, wildlife and natural resources.

Washed away roads, damaged water and sewer systems, and other significant infrastructure and unknown trail damage from what might have been a "once-in-a-thousand-year-storm" greatly complicates how soon Yellowstone National Park can reopen, and in what condition, and the odds are long that it will fully return to normal this year, Superintendent Cam Sholly told a national audience of journalists Tuesday during an hour-long Zoom call.