The National Park Service is proposing to boost the horsepower allowed by powerboats on the Jacks Fork and Current rivers at Ozark National Scenic Riverways in Missouri.
Do you enjoy hiking the trails? Do you have extra time to help keep them clear for all to enjoy? If so, then Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area in Kentucky and Tennessee needs you.
An Army officer is joining the National Park Service as director of the agency's Pacific West Region, with oversight of park units in California, Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, parts of Arizona and Montana, and the territories of Guam, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands.
Whenever I see photos like the one above, of morning fog rising off a river, it reminds me of my days as a guide on the New River many years ago. If you have a photo along the Obed Wild and Scenic River that can trigger such memories, you might want to enter it in the park's 11th annual photo contest.
For perhaps thousands of years a rock art panel on the face of a boulder stood in a somewhat remote area of Big Bend National Park until two visitors, perhaps attracted to the area by social media posts, felt they had to scratch their names atop the curious petroglyph.
Rumbling and light shaking in Hawai'i is pretty common, what with the volcanic plumbing that created the islands. Just the other day the U.S. Geological Survey's Hawaiian Volcano Observatory reported an earthquake with a magnitude of 4.3 that lightly shuddered the islands.
An ancient rock art panel at Big Bend National Park sustained what park officials are calling irreparable damage when vandals scratched their names into it.