The National Park Service has been given permission to hire "certain positions" previously blocked by President Trump's freeze on government hiring, though the agency didn't say which positions it can fill.
Starting Tuesday, February 18, Morristown National Historical Park will begin managing the deer population in the Jockey Hollow and New Jersey Brigade areas.
A vacation home built in Glacier National Park next to McDonald Creek will not be torn down because the Montana agency that brought the case has no jurisdiction in the national park, a federal judge ruled Monday.
While landscapes and wildlife usually come to mind when thinking about units of the National Park System, there are national parks dedicated to the protection and preservation of human history, their architecture, art, and culture. Mesa Verde National Park in southwestern Colorado is one such park.
Thought it's only been three weeks since the change in administrations in Washington, it certainly seems appropriate to question how the Trump administration will support the National Park Service and what long has been regarded as the world's most outstanding National Park System.