Two weeks out from the presidential election, it's time to take stock of the national parks and the National Park Service, but it's not all political fallout. There will be time to assess that, but now there are some matters that have given me some pause.

Officials are raising camping prices at Dinosaur National Monument to fund maintenance needs.

In the late 1970s, wolf biologist Diane K. Boyd tracked a lone female wolf named Kishinena in country around the North Fork of the Flathead River in Montana. As Doug Chadwick writes in his Foreward to this book, most people think wolves were first introduced in the mid-1990s in Yellowstone National Park, but by that time Diane and her colleagues had been studying them on the North Fork country, in Glacier National Park and surroundings, for well over a decade.

Actor Pierce Brosnan dodged a somewhat hefty fine for walking in a restricted thermal area at Yellowstone National Park, with the federal magistrate fining him $500 while the U.S. Attorney's Office had sought a $5,000 fine plus two years' probation for him.

After entrance fee collection was paused in 2017, Valles Caldera National Preserve will again collect fees in 2025.

To mark the demise of the webcam that provided views of Yellowstone Lake since 2017, let’s take a look back the history of YVO webcams in Yellowstone National Park.

Joshua Tree National Park will be increasing fees at the beginning of 2025, including doubling admission fees to the park.

Beloved trail reopens in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

The NPS collaborates with Tribes to transfer historic preservation responsibilities and empower Tribal Historic Preservation Offices.

Grand Canyon National Park officials are proposing campground fee increases beginning April, 2025, and want your input.

Cleanup efforts are making progress at Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site.

A Washington state utility company has agreed to pay $900,000 in damages for natural resource and archaeological damage it caused at Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area while moving a power pole.

North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum, a proponent of fossil fuels, has been picked by President-elect Donald Trump to head the Interior Department and its portfolio of land-management agencies, a selection that has quickly elicited concern over how that will affect public lands.

You can review mitigation plans for a water infrastructure project at Olympic National Park's Hurricane Ridge.

Expect delays as Great Smoky Mountains National Park begins closing road lanes for tree mitigation work.

How many of you have seen images of a fiery ribbon of water cascading over the sheer granite cliff face of El Capitan in February? It’s quite the sight, right? Because of the crowds that gather for this annual event, Yosemite National Park in California will require day-use entrance reservations for the last three weekends of February 2025 to manage the Horsetail Fall event.

Get ready for winter fun at the nation's only National Park Service property dedicated to trains -- Steamtown National Historic Site.

Another house has toppled into the Atlantic Ocean at Cape Hatteras National Seashore, where staff is monitoring other houses at risk of collapsing into the surf.

Crowded trails and parking lots, staff shortages, and natural resource damage have staff at Glacier National Park in Montana working on a long-term plan for managing visitation.

The National Park Service taps Kevin Heatley to lead the park.