Whether climbing anchors are appropriate in wilderness is a controversial issue Joshua Tree National Park staff is dealing with as it crafts a climbing management plan.

A proposal to build a sprawling digital data center next to Manassas National Battlefield Park has landed the park on the 2022 list of Virginia's "Most Endangered Historic Places."

Horace Kephart found both himself and his inspiration in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee, and it was there that he became one of the fiercest proponents for saving the mountains from logging companies.

It took only a handful or two of days between the disappearance of snow in the Santa Fe National Forest and the start of the Cerro Pelado fire, a growing blaze that has intruded into two units of the National Park System in New Mexico in an early season signal that the coming summer months will be smoky in many parts of the park system west of the Rockies.