The National Park Service is developing a fire management plan and conducting an environmental assessment (EA) for Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park and Curecanti National Recreation Area.

Erosion along the shoreline at Fort Raleigh National Historic Site in North Carolina is posing a threat to archaeological sites and park facilities, prompting the National Park Service to consider ways to halt the erosion along roughly 1 mile of shoreline.

Grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem will not lose their protections under the Endangered Species Act, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Wednesday, though the agency also proposed to clarify exactly where the bears enjoy those protections.

A lawsuit Montana filed against the Interior Department and Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Cam Sholly claims the Park Service long has ignored Montana's concerns over free-roaming bison, but park correspondence says otherwise.