It's been nearly 14 years since "white-nose syndrome," named for a white powder-looking fungus found on the nose of bats, was first identified on a bat in New York. Since then the disease has moved westward, leaving millions of dead bats in its wake. At Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky, the disease is blamed for the loss of 75-80 percent of Tri-colored bats there.

A Mississippi woman missing in Sequoia National Park since last week was found alive and in good condition Monday afternoon after the crew of a search plane spotted her SOS spelled out on the ground.

A storm that roared through Shiloh National Military Park downed trees across the park and forced its closure until crews could remove them.

Everglades National Park just had a 40th anniversary on October 24. It’s one anniversary we’d rather not celebrate. That’s the day in 1979 when the first recorded python was caught in the park near Everglades Safari Park on Tamiami Trail.

Back in July, U.S. Geological Survey researchers spotted a small pool of water at the bottom of the Halema‘uma‘u crater at Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park. Since then, that "small pool" has grown to one larger than a football field, and scientists aren't exactly sure what's driving it.

One-hundred-and-sixty years after a bucket of whale oil was used to ignite the warning beacon of the Cape Lookout light, the National Park Service is celebrating that event by opening the lighthouse for free to all who want to climb to the top and take in the sweeping view.

What did Glacier National Park visitors look like 50 or more years ago?

It took nearly three years, but highway signs with information for visiting Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument in Maine are being installed along the Interstate 95 and Route 11 corridors between Medway and Island Falls.

With a three-paragraph statement late Friday afternoon the National Park Service announced that it was withdrawing a previous order that national park units in Utah beginning November 1 open their dirt and paved roads to ATV vehicles that were registered and licensed for road travel in the state.

It's not a big number, but it is important in the world of California condors in the wild.

The National Park Service is stepping up to address the Going-to-the-Sun Road congestion issue, but I believe their announced plan will not deliver the scale of improvements necessary to reset the visitors experience back to The Last, Best Place promise of days past.

The search for a new source of water for the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park is scheduled to resume next week, when five test wells are to be sunk near Phantom Ranch on the floor of the Inner Gorge.

Some Florida panthers, already struggling with an extremely low population, could be afflicted with a neurological malady that impairs their rear legs and leads to difficulty in walking, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

Mike Reynolds, a former deputy director and acting director of the National Park Service before moving to Yosemite National Park to serve as superintendent, is heading to Denver to oversee the Intermountain Region.

A $4,000 grant awarded by the Appalachian Trail Conservation will allow that organization and Friends of the Smokies to repair food storage cables in Great Smoky Mountains National Park and along the Appalachian National Scenic Trail.

After already ordering units of the National Park System to be more accommodating to eBike users, Interior Secretary David Bernhardt now wants the National Park Service to seek public opinion on eBikes, a move that could be considered to be backwards.

Five landscape architectural firms have been retained to envision a redesign of the National Mall Tidal Basin, which is a crumbling focal point of the mall.

Nearly 400 readers took time out to complete a survey on National Parks Traveler, and the bottom line was that a strong majority found the nonprofit media organization valuable for keeping them atop of news from the National Park System.

There's never a dull moment around the National Park System. Just take a look.

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