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Yellowstone Officials Propose Replacement For Aged Lewis River Bridge

If the Lewis River Bridge in Yellowstone National Park becomes too unsafe for traffic, the South Entrance to the park will essentially be a dead-end for tens of thousands of visitors, who instead would have to make an hours-long detour to reach one of the park's other entrances. That's the scenario the park staff has drawn in an environmental assessment calling for the 58-year-old steel-and-concrete span to be replaced.

With Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, Is There A Need For A Grand Traverse Islands National Park?

Beautiful shorelines, historic lighthouses, Native American archaeological sites, and maritime history held in a chain of islands in Lake Michigan are among the attributes of a proposed national park in Wisconsin. It sounds very similar to an existing unit of the National Park System, Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, which could make this effort particularly challenging.

Work Beginning On Future Of Ranching At Point Reyes National Seashore

In what is sure to be one of the thorniest issues the National Park Service has addressed in recent years, work is getting underway to determine the future of cattle ranching at Point Reyes National Seashore in California. At stake are not only the native Tule elk that roam the landscape but the generations-old livelihood of ranching families, as well as the health of native vegetation at the national seashore that could be impacted.