A $6.8 million project to rehabilitate and preserve the visitor center at Antietam National Battlefield in Maryland is coming this spring. Through this rehabilitation, the National Park Service will bring the almost 60-year-old facility into the 21st century to preserve the building and provide improved visitor services.

Whether you’ve realized it or not, when you visit one of Canada’s national parks or national historic sites, there’s likely a management plan guiding all the Parks Canada decisions on how to protect, present and operate the site. Every decade or so, management plans come up for review and the public can weigh in.

President Biden's highly ambitious, and expensive, infrastructure proposal carries great possibilities for the worn and weary National Park System, though whether any will be realized is far from a sure thing. Indeed, with a keenly divided and divisive Congress, it's not even a given that the $2 trillion proposal will gain acceptance, and most certainly not in its current form. Also unknown is how, or even if, the package would directly help the parks.

“Going in the right direction on the trail.” That’s the literal translation of the Nuu-chah-nulth name — ʔapsčiik t̓ašii — for a new paved pathway in Pacific Rim National Park Reserve, but there are layers of possible meaning. The name can refer to a person’s personal life journey or to being mindful of the environment and all living things. When the name is used collectively, First Nations Elders say “the land we walk on is made from the dust of our ancestors — in our life journey, we walk it carefully, respectfully, with humility and dignity.”