A small slice of the past that tells part of the story of the Muscogee Nation has more than doubled in size with the addition of more than 900 acres of Ocmulgee National Park and Preserve in Georgia.

The title of John D. Leshy’s political history of America’s public lands, Our Common Ground, introduces the central fact of the story he invites us to read. The American federal public land estate is our land, a shared heritage of more than 600 million acres owned collectively by the American people and managed by the federal government. Yet despite a vast literature on public lands, which he points out focuses mostly on categories such as national parks or forests, much of the American public does not have a comprehensive understanding of how they came to have such a public land legacy.

Finding places to charge an electric vehicle in the National Park System is slowly getting easier, most recently with support from Rivian, the American company that makes EV vehicles.

How Isle Royale National Park's wolves form new packs, how researchers capture individual wolves for research, and what they learn from that research, is laid out in a documentary film released by the National Parks of Lake Superior Foundation.