So far this year three houses have been claimed by the Atlantic Ocean at Cape Hatteras National Seashore on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, polluting the seashore with construction materials, furnishings, sewage from septic tanks, and more. While more houses could be pulled down by the ocean, the National Park Service is searching for a solution but has yet to order homeowners to relocate their houses before they collapse.

It's probably save to say that politics is not something most of the 300 million people who visit the National Park System each year think of when they’re planning their vacations, but politics can definitely impact those vacations.

It is that time of year when ʻuaʻu (Hawaiian petrel, Pterodroma sanwichensisreturn to the summit of Haleakalā National Park.To spot them for yourself, join wildlife biologists and park rangers at ʻUaʻu Night on Saturday, May 21, from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. outside of the Haleakalā Visitor Center at 9,740 feet.

Minidoka National Historic Site, a vestige of an ugly chapter of U.S. history when American citizens were incarcerated, is one of the country's most endangered historic places because of a massive wind turbine farm proposed to rise nearby on the windswept plains of southern Idaho.