Senate passage Wednesday of the Great American Outdoors Act would, if the House concurs, send $6.5 billion to the National Park Service to address a bit more than half of the maintenance backlog that touches most, if not all, of the 419 unit of the National Park System. How that money, if provided, would be divvied up among the parks remains to be seen.

In a nod to the dangers of crowding too many folks into a meeting room while coronavirus is still a concern, the National Park Service and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are offering virtual meetings to explain a river restoration proposal at Cuyahoga Valley National Park.

Time, again, to test your national parks knowledge and learn a little bit in the process. See how much you know about U.S. national seashores.

More than 2 million pounds of microplastics, the equivalent of 123 million plastic bottles, settle on national parks and other public lands in the West each year, adding to the growing pollution loads these protected areas carry, according to a new study.