The National Park Service has decided to move ahead with rebuilding a roughly 6-mile stretch of the South Unit Loop Road at Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota.

In a subtropical landscape that claims nearly 100 butterfly species, Aerin Land couldn't find a single butterfly as we ambled across a stretch of pine rocklands in Everglades National Park, and that was troubling.

Ten historic sites associated with the preservation of civil rights history in America will receive a combined $3.27 million in National Park Service History of Equal Rights Grants. These competitive grants support physical preservation work and preservation planning activities, including historic building repair and rehabilitation, architectural planning, and land surveys.

The pinyon jay, a gregarious bird that's an icon on the Western landscape, is plummeting in number and needs the protection of the Endangered Species Act if it's to avoid extinction, according to Defenders of Wildlife.