After more than a year of exterior renovations, historic Flat Top Manor along the Blue Ridge Parkway is gleaming once again just in time for the year-end holidays.

The state, federal and tribal groups involved in the Interagency Bison Management recently announced they would slaughter up to 900 Yellowstone bison this winter.

Another boat ramp at Lake Powell in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area is closing to large motorized vehicles as the slow, but steady, decline of the lake continues.

Change has been a constant force on the landscape that is now protected in Grand Teton National Park, beginning with uplift of the Teton Range and its subsequent glaciation, erosion, and establishment of plant life. These dynamic processes created the iconic views that we enjoy today. Climate has forever been at the forefront among landscape altering agents.