Two rescue attempts were under way Monday at Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, where climbing rangers were trying to reach three mountaineers in trouble on Mount Bona while other rangers were trying to reach a downed plane near Mount Hawkins.

Turbulent seas long have created problems for Cape Hatteras, a long barrier island off the North Carolina coast that is home to the country's first national seashore. Pounding waves and storm surge related to hurricanes and nor'easters shifts beaches around, and even erase them. At Cape Hatteras, over the decades that has meant dune erosion and almost annual repairs to the highway that runs down the island. Against that, a plan has been approved to allow state and local governments to haul in sand from the seabed, when needed, to buttress the island against storms.

An iconic early 20th-century mountain home along the Blue Ridge Parkway built by textile magnate Moses Cone and his wife, Bertha, is being restored to its elegant original appearance.

President Biden's proposed Fiscal 2022 budget calls for $3.5 billion for the National Park Service, a roughly 12 percent increase from current funding levels, a boost that would allow the agency to add more than 1,000 rangers, expand its science mission, and add a Civilian Conservation Corps to put more workers on the ground repairing park infrastructure.