Guadalupe Mountains National Park Moving Campground Reservations Online
Guadalupe Mountains National Park is moving its campground reservations system online to recreation.gov.
- By Compiled From N... - September 10th, 2021 1:45am
Elk Bugling Program Coming To Wind Cave National Park
Rangers at Wind Cave National Park will be leading programs mid-September through early October to listen for the bugle of the Rocky Mountain elk. The elk’s high-pitched whistle heralds the arrival of fall and the elk’s mating season.
- By Compiled From N... - September 10th, 2021 1:45am
Glacier Launches Native America Speaks Artist-in-Residence Series
A weekly program of presentations by Native American artists has launched at Glacier National Park in Montana, with talks on the Native American connection to the landscape within the park.
- By Compiled From N... - September 10th, 2021 1:45am
EPA Moving To Protect Bristol Bay Watershed From Mining
An announcement Thursday from the Environmental Protection Agency that it was moving to protect the watershed of Bristol Bay in Alaska was hailed by groups opposed to a massive copper mine proposed to be developed near Lake Clark National Park and Preserve.
- By Kurt Repanshek - September 9th, 2021 1:31pm
Essay | The Other Yellowstone
Wilderness, and its occupants, slowly are vanishing. How we explore national parks determines whether we can preserve both.
- By Kurt Repanshek - September 9th, 2021 2:00am
Gateway Towns Grateful For National Park Visitors, But...
National park gateway towns often put up with a lot when high season brings floods of tourists, but they also profit quite a bit, too.
- By Kurt Repanshek - September 8th, 2021 2:15am
National Park Service Works To Preserve Rare Pillar Coral Genetics
At Dry Tortugas National Park in Florida, pieces of a rare coral have been taken from different colonies for preservation in a maintained and monitored aquarium setting at the Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science in Miami.
- By Compiled From N... - September 8th, 2021 1:45am
Op-Ed | The Nation's Parks Are At A Crossroads
The United States Senate will soon consider the nominee to be director of the National Park Service. America's Best Idea - the National Park System - is at a crossroads. Return The National Parks To The Tribes demanded an article in Atlantic Magazine on April 12, 2021. The curious title presumes that tribes once had national parks. “Returning the parks” would end the “National Park System.” Here are three reasons why.
- By Kurt Repanshek - September 7th, 2021 2:15am
Traveler's View: Study Air Tour Management Plans Carefully
Though we had paddled halfway down Yellowstone Lake into an area of Yellowstone National Park that is managed as wilderness and where it would take you a day or more to reach on foot, we hadn't entirely escaped the 21st century. From time to time throughout our five days on the lake the throb of planes fell down upon us from high overhead.
- By Kurt Repanshek - September 6th, 2021 2:15am
Condor Nestling At Zion National Park Takes Flight
Two years after Zion National Park saw its first wild-hatched condor take to the skies, another has accomplished the same feat.
- By Compiled From N... - September 6th, 2021 1:45am
