Resort Planned Just Outside Zion NP Has Conservationists Watching
The historic Trees Ranch, just outside Zion's southern boundary, has been rezoned for a planned resort.
- By justin.housman - January 22nd, 2025 2:10am
President Trump Orders That Denali Be Renamed Mount McKinley
President Trump has given the Interior Department 30 days to rename the highest point in North American Mount McKinley, although he's not ordering that Denali National Park be renamed.
- By Kurt Repanshek - January 21st, 2025 11:44am
Trump Reverses Biden On Natural Resource Protections In Alaska
The partisan divide over natural resource protections took a hard shift to the right with the inauguration of President Trump, who reversed moves the Biden administration took to protect natural resources in Alaska from mining and energy development and hunting bears with baits,
- By Kurt Repanshek - January 21st, 2025 10:20am
Photography In The National Parks: My 11 Favorite Images From 2024
Happy New Year! Continuing a tradition begun in 2015, Traveler contributing photographer Rebecca Latson discusses her 11 favorite shots captured during her 2024 national park visits. She tells the why, the where, and the how for each image.
- By Rebecca Latson - January 21st, 2025 3:00am
Rare Steller’s Sea-Eagle Visits Terra Nova National Park
“Are you a birder?” the woman asked from the front seat of her pickup truck in the parking lot of a Newfoundland national park on New Year’s Eve.
- By Jennifer Bain - January 21st, 2025 2:30am
The Lasting Contributions Of Yellowstone National Park Naturalist George Marler
Ranger naturalist George D. Marler meticulously documented changes in hydrothermal activity in the geyser basins of Yellowstone National Park for more than three decades in the mid-20th century. His work was especially useful in understanding the significant changes in hydrothermal activity following the August 1959 M7.3 Hebgen Lake, Montana, earthquake.
- By Kurt Repanshek - January 21st, 2025 2:30am
House Republicans Want To Recapture National Park Service Funding
It's too early to say what Republican plans will take root in Congress, but already there are proposals to both sell off federal lands and pull back National Park Service funding budgeted for helping parks respond to climate change.
- By Kurt Repanshek - January 20th, 2025 2:45am
Construction Will Limit Access To Many Glacier Area Of Glacier National Park
Construction tied to replacing a six-decade-old water system will limit access to the Many Glacier area of Glacier National Park in Montana this year.
- By Kurt Repanshek - January 20th, 2025 2:30am
South Florida Agencies And Tribes Unite For Cross-Boundary Prescribed Fire Project
Massive prescribed fire requires multi-jurisdictional agencies to cooperate.
- By justin.housman - January 20th, 2025 2:20am
Peregrine Falcon Nesting Prompts Trail Closures In Big Bend National Park
Peregrine falcons are threatened in Texas and to protect them as they nest, Big Bend National Park is implementing temporary trail closures.
- By justin.housman - January 19th, 2025 2:40am
