A legal challenge has been mounted with hopes of reversing the Federal Aviation Administration's decision to issue an operating license to a commercial spaceport that would launch rocket ships over Cumberland Island National Seashore off the coast of Georgia.

Guests at Jackson Lake Lodge in Grand Teton National Park this summer will be front and center as the lodge gets a new roof, restoration of its exterior concrete walls (including restaining of that concrete) to restore the character-defining architecture and design of the National Historic Landmark.

The National Park Service is facing a water conundrum: some parks have too little, some parks have too much. While an historic drought continues to parch much of the Western United States, a new report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association predicts that sea levels across the United States will rise, on average, 10-12 inches by 2050. In other words, from Maine to Florida to Texas and all the way up to Alaska, there are more than 100 national park units threatened by the slow siege of rising coastlines.

EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK _ It was an unlikely scene in a national park established to protect nature: bucket excavators, lumbering dump trucks, and bulldozers, heavy equipment more in place at sprawling construction sites, were rummaging through the muck not far from the park's Ernest F. Coe Visitor Center.