Big Bend National Park in Texas is anticipating a busy leadup to Thanksgiving weekend, as large numbers of visitors historically travel to the park during the last weeks of November. The park already is experiencing record visitation, and visitors who plan on a November visit should be prepared for full campgrounds and limited parking.

While a watchdog organization claimed Monday that the National Park Service "buried" a report on how pervasive harassment is across the agency, the agency claimed the Covid-19 pandemic slowed its distribution.

If Charles Sams, who is waiting for the Senate to confirm him as National Park Service director, is serious about his top priority being to lift the morale of the agency's workforce, seeing better, and more, housing for the field staff should be in tandem with better pay.

Yellowstone National Park in 2020 embarked on what Superintendent Cam Sholly calls "the largest housing improvement project in the National Park Service since Mission 66" for park employees, but not all parks are so fortunate.