The 2023 Minister’s Round Table on Parks Canada is slated to run in January and February so that all Canadians can weigh in on how the federal agency is doing and discuss the future of national heritage places.

Two congressmen from California are pushing to see 1.4 million acres that lie between Yosemite and Kings Canyon national parks moved from the U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Bureau of Land Management to the National Park Service and recognized as the Range of Light National Monument.

A Jasper National Park visitor who was spotted vandalizing boulders and rock with spray paint along the Whistlers Summit Trail this summer has pleaded guilty in court and been fined $4,000 (2,970 USD).

Thirty-one species of cacti live in the starkly beautiful Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in the Sonoran Desert, along with bighorn sheep, pronghorns, javelinas, kangaroo rats, rare pupfish and all kinds of reptiles and birds. But the green desert is also home to a 30-mile stretch of America’s steel border wall and warning signs had this traveler anxious that “smuggling and illegal immigration may be encountered in this area.”