Spring-break crowds, drought conditions, and a poor water source recently created quite the problem at Big Bend National Park, a problem that required the Big Bend Conservancy to bail out the National Park Service.

Yellowstone National Park is famous for its volcanic landscapes, erupting geysers, colorful hot springs, and abundant and diverse wildlife. The park is also unique because of the many waterfalls along its rivers and creeks that mostly form in deep gorges, where rocks with differences in hardness meet or at the edges of thick rhyolite lava flows.

The National Park Service describes Kenai Fjords National Park in Alaska as the location “where mountains, ice and ocean meet.” This description provides you with a good idea of what you can see at this national park if you choose to visit. And you ought to, since it’s just two hours’ drive away from Anchorage, a city easily reached by commercial flights from the Lower 48.

President Trump’s zest for rapidly shrinking the government is triggering anxiety about conservation priorities that have been embedded for more than five decades in the country’s national parks and wildlife refuges.