Five units of the National Park System that ring Lake Superior hope to be able to go completely carbon-free by TK under an ambitious plan supported by the National Parks of Lake Superior Foundation.
Concern is growing for the future of a unique orchid that is a favorite of poachers after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service failed to meet a deadline for deciding whether the flower needed Endangered Species Act protection.
More than two decades of battles over a copper and gold mine proposed to be built near Lake Clark National Park and Preserve in Alaska came to a halt as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has denied the backers' request to dump mining wastes into the headwaters of the Bristol Bay watershed.
If you hope to drive the Going-to-the-Sun Road across Glacier National Park in Montana this summer, you can try to reserve your ticket beginning Wednesday at 8 a.m. MT time via recreation.gov.
How gateway communities along the 469-mile-long Blue Ridge Parkway that weaves through the high country of Virginia and North Carolina should manage economic development is the goal of an action plan to be developed.
Trail improvements and online park guides, carnivore research, and creation of a Native Conservation Corps program are among the projects made possible through $1.1 million raised by Washington's National Park Fund.
Another mountain lion that roamed the Santa Monica Mountains in California appears to have been killed by a vehicle, according to National Park Service staff. A release from Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area said P-81 was likely killed by a vehicle strike Sunday, January 22.
Cape Cod National Seashore in Massachusetts is beginning a vegetation removal project that aims to remove dead trees and shrubbery from the Duck Harbor floodplain in Wellfleet. Park officials say two years of periodic dune overwashes led to substantial saltwater accumulation in the area and caused a massive die-off of freshwater plants. Removing the dead vegetation will allow salt-water tolerant vegetation to recolonize the area, they say.