A Republican-backed spending bill for the Interior Department that was up for a full House Appropriations Committee vote late Thursday afternoon would drop funding for Fiscal 2024 below FY18 levels, block grizzly bear recovery in the North Cascades, and remove Endangered Species Act protections for the gray wolf.

A significant stretch of Rim Drive at Crater Lake National Park in Oregon is scheduled to be restored beginning this summer, with work continuing for about five years.

The final stage of rebuilding the Dingmans Falls boardwalk at Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area in New Jersey and Pennsylvania kicks off next week, and that means there will be some closures on the popular quarter-mile trail that passes by Silverthread Falls on the way to Dingmans Falls.

A 26-year-old Colorado woman on a free-solo climb on Blitzen Ridge in Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado died when she fell roughly 500 feet while negotiating a challenging route.