It’s almost a wrap for 2024, and the year provided plenty of trips and photo ops for contributing photographer Rebecca Latson, who provides a recap of 12 months of park photography articles published in the Traveler. How many of these have you read?

A look at Ukrainian conservationists fighting to save wild spaces even as the war with Russia rages all around them.

Permitting the Ambler Road through Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve; giving the state of Alaska control over fish and wildlife, including within National Park System units; and discarding the National Park Service's practice of managing lands "eligible" for wilderness as official wilderness are among the requests Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy has made to President-elect Donald Trump's transition team.

Commercial overflights at Canyon de Chelly National Monument in Arizona will be banned by the National Park Service and Federal Aviation Administration under an air tour management plan the agencies crafted.