It's not yet July, the worst of the summer's high heat is yet to come, and already Grand Canyon National Park rangers are having to save visitors who are overheating from triple-digit temperatures.

At a time when the oil and gas industry is sitting idle on nearly 10,000 drilling permits for public lands, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management is preparing to offer more than 110,000 acres of public lands in Utah, some quite near national parks, for drilling.

An easing of coronavirus restrictions is leading to the reopening Saturday of the visitor center at Fossil Butte National Monument in Wyoming, and next week the grounds of the John Muir National Historic Site in California will reopen to the public.

Two Philadelphia women who ventured off a boardwalk in Yellowstone National Park's Midway Geyser Basin earlier this month and trampled the colorful bacterial mat that rings Opal Pool are each $457 lighter and spending two nights in jail after appearing before the federal magistrate in the park.