Work continues on restoring George W. Childs Park in Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, but the popular area isn't expected to reopen to the public utnil next spring or summer.
The UNESCO World Heritage Committee has added Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks, a group of eight ancient earthwork sites in southern Ohio, to the World Heritage List. Among the eight sites is Hopewell Culture National Historical Park.
Drivers should be able to expect smooth rides along the Kolob Canyons Road in Zion National Park this winter, as repairs will soon start to rebuild a portion of the road damaged by a landslide earlier in the year.
The National Park Service can't successfully manage its multi-billion-dollar maintenance backlog "due to inaccurate and unreliable data" that has made it impossible to accurately state the cost of the backlog, according to the Interior Department's Inspector General, though the agency strongly disagrees.
In a baffling rationale, the National Park Service is willing to let endangered species be trampled by feral horses at Cumberland Island National Seashore because it doesn't see itself liable for what horses do.
Along the windswept northwestern coast of Newfoundland where four ancient cultures once lived off the sea’s bounty, a lone caribou grazed, indifferent to my family’s delight and seemingly safe in the knowledge that it can no longer be hunted in this protected landscape. We held up a card from Port au Choix National Historic Site that warned us to stay at least three bus lengths away from this gorgeous species at risk. There was a thumb-size rectangle cut out of the cardboard.
Nearly two years after Chuck Sams took over as director of the National Park Service with a determination to improve employee morale, workforce morale continues to fall, employee flight from the agency is growing, and the agency's directorate "is failing to address issues of low morale and workplace harassment," according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility.