Bridge repair work in Great Smoky Mountains National Park will slow traffic at times as there will be single-lane closures and occasionally full road closures, the park has announced.

Just the natural history of the Chesapeake Bay -- how a meteor formed it, the size of its watershed, its diverse fisheries, its tributaries, wetlands, and islands -- could justify its addition to the National Park System, but when you add the American and cultural history to that, it seems almost to have been an oversight that there is no unit of the National Park System that celebrates this unique and complex ecosystem.

Bernard Devoto was an overlooked giant in the battle to save public lands in the West from development, according to a new book examining his conservation battles.

It wasn’t the black bears we had to watch out for e-biking the new ʔapsčiik t̓ašii (ups-cheek ta-shee) multi-use pathway from one end of Pacific Rim National Park Reserve’s Long Beach unit to the other — it was the banana slugs.