The Summit District of Haleakalā National will be closed beginning at 3:00 am HST on January 12, 2024 due to hazardous and severe weather conditions until further notice.
A young dog that slipped her leash at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore fell 60 feet from a cliff near Miners Castle and, though forced to spend a cold night on a ledge, was rescued in good condition Thursday and reunited with her owners.
Clingmans Dome, the highest point in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, could undergoe a name change back to the name the Cherokee used for time immemorial. The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Tribal Council last week approved a resolution to forward an application to the federal government asking that the 6,643-foot high summit be renamed Kuwohi, a Cherokee word that means "Mulberry Place."
Failures by the National Park Service to properly administer the millions of Land and Water Conservation Fund dollars it disperses is jeopardizing the use of those funds, according to some of the recipients.
A national park site is not a home for wayward cats. That's the decision of the National Park Service at San Juan National Historic Site and the Paseo del Morro National Recreational Trail, where feral cats have had a home and food service for years.
Two House subcommittees concerned over why the National Park System's deferred maintenance backlog is not shrinking were scheduled to meet Wednesday with officials from the General Accounting Office (GAO) and the Interior Department's Inspector General (IG) to discuss the matter, but no one from the National Park Service.