Thought it's only been three weeks since the change in administrations in Washington, it certainly seems appropriate to question how the Trump administration will support the National Park Service and what long has been regarded as the world's most outstanding National Park System.

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has been urged by four U.S. senators to resolve the hiring freeze on the National Park Service that threatens to imperil the summer season in the National Park System.

With a flurry of secretarial orders on his first day at work, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum stressed the Trump administration's desire to push for more energy development on federal lands while discarding the Biden administration's concerns for climate-change impacts and endangered species.

Legislators in two Western states have their eyes on federal lands, with the Wyoming Legislature being asked to approve a resolution that all federal lands inside the Cowboy State, except Yellowstone National Park, be turned over, while Utah legislators are being asked to get behind a measure calling for them to "co-manage" the national parks in their state.