More Closures For Ontario's Trent-Severn Waterway
High water levels and flows have forced Parks Canada to expand the partial closure of navigation at the Trent-Severn Waterway National Historic Site.
- By NPT Staff - June 21st, 2022 2:45am
Essay | The Time Has Arrived For A White Mountain National Park
Eastern mountain ranges too often, and unjustly, are given short shrift for their majesty when compared to Western ranges. But as George Wuerthner makes clear in the following essay, the White Mountains in New Hampshire not only are an amazing tract of wilderness-quality forests, streams and lakes, but deserve to be embraced by the National Park System.
- By Kurt Repanshek - June 21st, 2022 2:30am
National Park Service Announces $50 Million Emergency Funding; Expedited Plans To Reopen 80 Percent Of Yellowstone
During a visit to Yellowstone National Park and Gardiner, Montana, on Sunday, June 19, National Park Service Director Chuck Sams with Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Cam Sholly announced $50 million to kick-start recovery efforts from record breaking floods.
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- By Kurt Repanshek - June 22nd, 2022 10:08pm
Grizzly Killed By Truck In Jasper National Park
A female grizzly bear has been struck and killed by a commercial transport truck on Hwy. 16 in Jasper National Park, and her cub has been orphaned.
- By NPT Staff - June 20th, 2022 3:00am
Jasper Plans National Indigenous Peoples Day Celebration
Jasper National Park will celebrate National Indigenous Peoples Day with a day of festivities in Robson Park across the street from the library.
- By NPT Staff - June 20th, 2022 2:45am
Review | The National Parks Journal
While most of us memorialize our national park adventures with photographs, a great companion to those images are your thoughts, and Stefanie Payne has given us much room to record those thoughts in The National Parks Journal, Plan & Record Your Trips To The US National Parks.
- By Kurt Repanshek - June 20th, 2022 2:30am
Trip Report: Grand Teton National Park
Early summer is an incredible season to visit Grand Teton National Park in western Wyoming. The forests, meadows, and wetlands are greening up, runoff has filled Pilgrim, Spread, and Pacific creeks, there's still a good measure of snow on the craggy Tetons, and wildlife abounds.
- By Kurt Repanshek - June 19th, 2022 2:30am
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- By Kurt Repanshek - June 19th, 2022 2:30am
Searching Big Cypress National Preserve For Cigar Orchids
There are, deep within Big Cypress National Preserve, a curiously shaped orchid that has lured poachers for years. How many remain is a question Hong Liu is trying to answer.
- By Kurt Repanshek - August 1st, 2024 1:24am
