Charles 'Chuck' Sams was confirmed by the U.S. Senate late Thursday as the next director of the National Park Service.

A number of unique trees in the pinyon-juniper forests of El Malpais National Monument in New Mexico have been stolen, prompting the National Park Service to ask for information that could lead to the arrest of the thieves.

More than 40 bison have been removed this fall from the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park, where the size of the resident herd has been growing uncontrolled.

Mountains and oceans may be the most visible features of British Columbia’s national parks, but grasslands are some of its most important habitats. Home to thirty percent of the province’s species at risk, grasslands cover only one percent of the province’s land area and are endangered landscapes. Wildfires that renew grasslands were suppressed for decades as people protected forests and built structures.