Tourism tied to the National Park System, and the highly popular Fat Bear Week at Katmai National Park and Preseve, will take a blow if a Congressional government funding impasse leads to a shutdown Sunday.

Phase three construction of the Snake River Gateways Project at Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming will require closure of Moose Landing to the public.

A draft plan crafted to see grizzly bears restored to the North Cascades Ecosystem of Washington state proposes to release bears that would be treated as a "nonessential experimental population," a designation that would provide more options for managing the species, which currently is protected under the Endangered Species Act. The last confirmed sighting of a grizzly bear in the U.S. portion of the ecosystem was in 1996.

Removing feral horses and cattle from Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota would benefit native species of wildlife, birds, and vegetation, according to a study concerning how to manage the livestock.