National park visitors could be confronted by "chaos" this summer if the hold on seasonal hirings by the Trump administration is not lifted soon, says former National Park Service Director Jonathan Jarvis.

Yosemite is putting plans for a permanent reservation system on hold until it receives guidance from the federal government.

Officials at Assateague Island National Seashore say rules nearly 50 years old restricting beach-going vehicles by size are no longer needed.

A decision by Padre Island National Seashore officials to close the seashore during a recent cold snap that stunned nearly 1,000 sea turtles in the Gulf of Mexico, killing an unspecified number, has drawn concern from Sierra Club members in Texas and prompted a county commissioner to call for the seashore superintendent to be fired.