A zinc mine proposed to be developed seven miles from Kathadin Woods and Waters National Monument in Maine was blocked when a split state Land Use Planning Commission refused to rezone the land in question to allow for the operation.

During the week of February the National Park Service and the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service moved 116 Yellowstone National Park bison to the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in Poplar, Montana. The Bison Conservation Transfer Program continues to make history, having relocated the largest number of live Yellowstone bison to American Indian Tribes in the world, according to the Park Service.

History will expand at Fort Scott National Historic Site in Kansas thanks to work by the National Park Trust to facilitate the purchase of three-quarters-of-an-acre located within the park boundaries.

The National Park Service is failing to recover fair market value on the leases for beef and dairy ranches at Point Reyes National Seashore, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, which claims taxpayers are losing millions of dollars on the operations.