The plan would have allowed local land managers of wilderness areas to heavily regulate climbing anchors.

Permitting the Ambler Road through Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve; giving the state of Alaska control over fish and wildlife, including within National Park System units; and discarding the National Park Service's practice of managing lands "eligible" for wilderness as official wilderness are among the requests Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy has made to President-elect Donald Trump's transition team.

Kīlauea volcano at Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park on Monday put on quite the show for holiday visitors, as the following collection of photos shows.

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