The Giant Forest area of Sequoia National Park, home to the General Sherman Tree, the largest tree in the world (by volume), reopened to the public on Friday. The area closed in early March in advance of what would become a catastrophic series of storms. Those storms left behind severe road and infrastructure damage that continues to impact public access.
The Biden administration moved Friday to protect the Chaco Canyon area from energy development by withdrawing public lands there from oil and gas leasing and mining claims for a 20-year period.
Beginning June 15 and running through Halloween, you'll need a permit to explore the Brooks River Corridor at Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska for all activities, except redfish fishery subsistence activities.
Visitors to Yellowstone National Park are taking a toll on the park's wildlife, where in recent days two black bears have been killed by motorists, an elk and a bison were also hit by vehicles, a newborn elk calf was picked up by motorists concerned for its fate, and a bison calf had to be put down after a visitor tried to help it out of the Lamar River so it could catch up with its mother.
Proposed legislation to lift the nation's debt ceiling stands to be damaging to the National Park Service if passed in its current form, according to a budget analyst for the National Parks Conservation Association.
The National Park Service is moving ahead with work to rehabilitate the Tidal Basin and West Potomac Park seawalls at the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
A Hawaii man who helped a bison calf in Yellowstone National Park move away from the Lamar River was fined $500 and saddled with another $540 in fees Wednesday after pleading guilty to one count of feeding, touching, teasing, frightening, or intentionally disturbing wildlife.
Across the National Park System, scientists and biologists are working in parks — above and below ground, and in the ocean — to cure wildlife diseases.