Though equipment couldn't detect the gassing of a volcano, nearby residents smelled it.

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has been urged to reinstate positions the National Park Service lost through the Valentine's Day mass termination of federal employees, to fill the positions lost through those who opted to take the Trump administration's deferred resignation program, and to not "decimate the world’s most prestigious National Park System."

The Center for Biological Diversity just released profiles on 10 national monuments and other protected public lands and waters that could be in the crosshairs of the Trump administration for fracking, drilling, and mining.

Adding insult to injury, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a memo on February 26, 2025, directing all federal agencies to submit their plans for a systematic Reduction in Force (RIF) by March 13. This lands with a thud on the National Park Service after it has already had over 1,000 probationary employees fired*, an unknown number taking the deferred resignation, and a start-stop-start again on seasonal hiring.

Directions from the Office of Management and Budget and Office of Personnel Management on how federal agencies should craft their reduction-in-force (RIF) plans raise questions of how the National Park Service will go about cutting its ranks.

Continued dry conditions, winds, and high fire danger in the park prompting a ban on all campfires and charcoal use, effective immediately at Great Smoky Mountains National park. The fire ban will be in effect until further notice on both the Tennessee and North Carolina sides of the park.

In an open letter to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, a former chief scientist for the National Park Service asked that he highlight for President Donald Trump that America's national parks "are the embodiment of patriotism and a remarkable example of American exceptionalism."

Planning a national park trip in 2025? If there is a tour, ranger-led program, campsite, or any other park event for which you need a reservation, you’d better be prepared for staffing issues to affect some of those plans.

America's public lands are one of the Nation's most outstanding achievements. Public lands are part of every citizen's heritage and an essential part of the national inheritance. It is especially vital to the people living in the western states, where we enjoy an abundance of public land.

Deer will be culled at several Pennsylvania NPS units soon and the Park Service invites the public to learn more about the operation.

Members of the House and Senate have called on Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to provide transparency on an “action plan” that could weaken protections for public lands.

Voters across the country are greatly concerned over the health of the National Park Service and U.S. Forest Service in the wake of the firing of more than 3,000 federal workers by the Trump administration, according to polling out Wednesday.

Several trails will be closed beginning March 1 in Acadia National Park to protect nesting peregrine falcons.

More than 160 years after blood was spilled at the Battle of Fredericksburg during the Civil War, another battle is ramping up to prevent the hallowed grounds at Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park from being sullied by a massive development that would overshadow the Wilderness Battlefield with residential and commercial development, including a massive data processing center.

Conservation groups have banded together to release a plan for grizzly management.

Cuts to NPS and USFS may put public lands users in danger.

The Appalachian Trail stands to be impacted by the recent and shocking cuts to the Park Service and the Forest Service.

More than 700 National Park Service staff are quitting to take up the Trump administration's offer to resign now but be paid possibly through September, according to an agency memo.

What if you only had a day or two, to spend in Yellowstone National Park? Where would you go? What would you photograph? If you decide to travel the park’s 142-mile Grand Loop Road, a figure-eight shaped route through the park interior, you’ll see (and photograph) plenty. Contributing photographer Rebecca Latson gives you an idea of what you might capture with your camera.

A brand new plant species has been discovered in Big Bend National Park.