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Your National Parks RV Camping Getaway Plan

More people are leaping into the RV lifestyle every year. They’re exploring national parks in comfort, but all that extra traffic makes spontaneous road trips to the parks largely a thing of the past, at least during the busy summer season. With more rigs on the road than campsites to accommodate them, RVers like me are constantly competing for a scant number of RV-friendly campsites. I learned this lesson the hard way when I arrived at Yellowstone without reservations.

Study: Northeast Canyons And Seamounts National Monument Had No Evident Impact On Commercial Fishing

President Obama's designation of Northeast Canyons and Seamounts National Monument in the Atlantic Ocean had little or no impact on commercial fisheries, according to an examination of catches before, during, and after establishment of the monument.

Federal Judge Orders Endangered Species Act Protection For Gray Wolves

A federal judge on Thursday restored Endangered Species Act protections for the gray wolf across much of the country, ruling that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 2020 removed the protections based on two core populations of the canid, not on the species' status in a significant portion of its historic range and did not consider whether that range was needed to achieve full recovery.

Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park Working To Address Infrastructure Impacted By Kīlauea's 2018 Eruption

What to do with facilities, including the Jaggar Museum, on the rim of the Kīlauea Volcano at Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park that were damaged by its 2018 eruption is a question the National Park Service is seeking public suggestions for.

Groups Call On Biden Administration To Create National Biodiversity Strategy

Nearly 200 countries have developed various forms of biodiversity strategies, but the United States is not one of them, according to a coalition of conservation groups that want the Biden administration to create a national biodiversity strategy in a bid to slow the sixth mass extinction.

Exploring The Parks: Wandering The Hoh Rain Forest

On a July 4th weekend, I slowly circled the Hoh Campground, passing just about every one of its 72 sites in search of an empty, unreserved campsite. With the sinking feeling that my campsite would end up somewhere in the adjoining Olympic National Forest, it was stunning to find a vacant site on a turn in the road and separated from the Hoh River by a line of towering trees.