Wildlife Groups Advocate For New Vision Of Grizzly Bear Protection
Conservation groups have banded together to release a plan for grizzly management.
- By justin.housman - February 23rd, 2025 4:33am
Pharmaceuticals, Pesticides, And Other Chemical Pollutants Are Getting Into NPS Waters
Even if you didn't visit it yourself, lakes near you in a national park may accumulate the sunscreen you slathered on.
- By justin.housman - February 23rd, 2025 4:32am
Science In The National Park System Taking A Hit From Employee Firings
Go past the visitor center and the restrooms and leave the parking area, and you'll enter a realm of the National Park Service that isn't in the public's eye but which is being hit hard and disrupted by the Trump administration's hatchet approach to shrinking federal government.
- By Kurt Repanshek - February 23rd, 2025 4:32am
Working To Preserve Cashes Ledge, ‘Yellowstone Of The North Atlantic"
An undersea wonderland some 80 miles off the New England coast that bursts with a biodiversity so bountiful that it’s dubbed the Yellowstone of the Atlantic needs better protection, maintain marine ecologists.
- By Kurt Repanshek - February 22nd, 2025 8:34am
A Former Ranger Joins Protest Over Cuts To National Park Service
Earlier this week I did something I thought I would never in my lifetime have to do. I traveled to my former workplace, Rocky Mountain National Park’s Beaver Meadows entrance, the gateway to one of the most magnificent places on earth, to protest.
- By Adam Auerbach - February 21st, 2025 10:55am
NPS Rangers Saved A Man's Life In My Camp
Cuts to NPS and USFS may put public lands users in danger.
- By justin.housman - February 21st, 2025 5:41am
Some In Congress Starting To Question Trump Firings
A few members of Congress are starting to speak out against the indiscriminate firings of some 2,300 Interior Department employees, including 1,000 from the National Park Service.
- By Kurt Repanshek - February 20th, 2025 4:23pm
President Trump Orders Presidio Trust To Shrink To Its "Minimum Presence"
In another move to "reduce the federal bureaucracy," President Trump has ordered the Presidio Trust at Golden Gate National Recreation Area to reduce its presence to the "minimum presence." Whether that would save the federal government any money is questionable, as the Trust says it hasn't received any annual federal appropriations since 2013.
- By Kurt Repanshek - February 20th, 2025 3:38pm
Trump Administration Moving To Upend "Magna Carta" Of Environment Laws
President Donald Trump's administration is moving to defang the National Environmental Policy Act that long has been viewed as the "Magna Carta" of the United State's environmental laws.
- By Kurt Repanshek - February 20th, 2025 1:27pm
Appalachian Trail Will Suffer From Federal Firing Surge
The Appalachian Trail stands to be impacted by the recent and shocking cuts to the Park Service and the Forest Service.
- By justin.housman - February 20th, 2025 7:39am
