The Everglades Trust has announced that Anna Upton, Esq., takes over Monday as its new CEO. She arrives at that job from the Everglades Foundation, where she served as general counsel and vice president of government affairs.

Abandoned mines, wildlife habitat, recreation, and other projects across the National Park System should benefit from millions of dollars the Biden adminstration has released through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

In a move likely to bring more attention to the nation's Civil Rights history, President Biden on Thursday signed legislation that redesignates the Brown v. Board of Educaton National Historic Site as a "national historical park," and adds properties under that umbrella.

More than $16 million in grants have been awarded to help preserve sites associated with the African American Civil Rights movement in the United States.