National Park Mystery Spot 31 Revealed: Big Tree Inside, Lots More Outside
The huge tree rising from the lobby floor isn't real, but there's a real forest of giants just outside.
- By Bob Janiskee - December 9th, 2011 7:23am
National Park Service Releases Draft EIS on Transmission Line Across Appalachian National Scenic Trail, Delaware Water Gap NRA
A voluminous evaluation document has been released on the proposed expansion of a power transmission corridor through the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area and Appalachian National Scenic Trail, but the National Park Service has not recommended a direction to go.
The Grand Canyon Reader
In a wonderful new book, Lance Newman has compiled an outdoor literary fan's best's best of short stories, essays, and poetry regaling the Grand Canyon. Within the covers you'll find Ed Abbey, John McPhee, Terry Tempest Williams, Barry Lopez and more.
New Study Says More Studies Are Needed To Determine Impact of Drakes Bay Oyster Co. At Point Reyes National Seashore
While an oyster company operating at Point Reyes National Seashore seems to be influencing the behavior of harbor seals there, more research is needed to determine a "cause and effect," a new report concludes.
Appellate Court Rules Yellowstone Area Grizzly Bears Should Remain On Endangered Species List
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in finding that grizzly bears in the Yellowstone ecosystem should remain a threatened species, has ruled that federal wildlife biologists were wrong when they concluded the decline of whitebark pine trees was not detrimental to the bears' future.
- By Kurt Repanshek - November 23rd, 2011 10:08am
National Park Mystery Spot 31: Walk This Way
There are walks, and then there are walks. This mystery spot offers choices.
- By Bob Janiskee - November 23rd, 2011 3:00am
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park Officials Searching For Solution to Non-Native Animals
For more than 1,000 years non-native animals have called the forests of Hawaii home. But those animals -- pigs, deer, goats, and sheep -- are exacting a toll on the native flora and fauna, as well as the landscape, of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, where officials are working to hone their strategies for removing the intruders.
- By Kurt Repanshek - November 23rd, 2011 2:47am
Reader Participation Day: Which Is Your Favorite "Historical" National Park?
Tell us, travelers, which is your favorite "historic" or "historical" unit of the National Park System, and why?
- By Kurt Repanshek - November 23rd, 2011 2:22am
Special Luminaria To Mark Holidays At Mesa Verde National Park
Flickering shadows dancing on the walls of Spruce Tree House at Mesa Verde National Park will help usher in the holidays at the park in southwestern Colorado early next month.
- By NPT Staff - November 23rd, 2011 2:09am
Fracking Put On Hold In Delaware River Basin
A decision by the Delware River Basin Commission to postpone a vote on regulations that could open the Delware River Basin to "fracking" for natural gas has been praised by the National Parks Conservation Association.
- By NPT Staff - November 22nd, 2011 2:40am
