Yosemite National Park Proposing Timed Entry For Key Periods
Yosemite National Park officials are proposing to make permanent a timed entry system for peak periods of the year.
- By Kurt Repanshek - August 15th, 2024 2:30am
Padre Island National Seashore To Receive $7.1 Million To Restore Oil And Gas Well Sites
Padre Island National Seashore in Texas has been approved to receive $7,115,165 from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to restore abandoned oil and gas well sites within the park boundaries.
- By Kurt Repanshek - August 15th, 2024 2:00am
It's Dangerous Out There In The Parks
We head to national parks for relaxation and recreation, but we can't forget that these destinations can be dangerous places.
- By Kurt Repanshek - August 14th, 2024 1:28pm
Grand Canyon National Park's South Rim Back On Water Conservation Measures
Just 24 hours after lifting water conservation measures for the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park, a pipeline break has put the measures back in place.
- By Kurt Repanshek - August 14th, 2024 12:51pm
Inside The Lavish D.C. Home Of An Abolitionist Who Escaped Enslavement
It’s an 85-step climb to the hilltop home of Frederick Douglass in D.C.’s predominantly African American Anacostia neighborhood. For me, it’s just a brief cardio challenge. For Douglass, it must have served as a constant reminder of his journey from enslaved child to leading voice in the abolitionist movement, equal rights advocate and statesman.
- By Kurt Repanshek - August 13th, 2024 2:30am
House-Endorsed Amendment Would Block Any Wilderness Designation At Big Cypress
A long-running effort to designate official wilderness within Big Cypress National Preserve, a landscape of sawgrass prairie and cypress swamps the size of Rhode Island, appears headed to failure again under Republican concerns and tribal opposition.
- By Kurt Repanshek - August 13th, 2024 2:30am
Virgin Islands National Park Preparing For Tropical Storm Ernesto
The approach of Tropical Storm Ernesto has placed the U.S. Virgin Islands under a tropical storm warning, prompting the National Park Service to begin to batten down Virgin Islands National Park and other park units in the islands for the storm.
- By Kurt Repanshek - August 12th, 2024 5:02pm
Wildfire Preparations Lead To Closure Of Crater Lake National Park's North Entrance
Work to reduce fuels that could feed the Middle Fork Fire will close the North Entrance to Crater Lake National Park in Oregon on Tuesday.
- By Kurt Repanshek - August 12th, 2024 11:30am
Wildfires Continue To Plague National Parks
Wildfires continued to plague units of the National Park System, with Lassen Volcanic National Park still closed due to the proximity of the Park Fire to the west, multiple backcountry fires burning in Yosemite National Park, and two fires impacting North Cascades National Park.
- By Kurt Repanshek - August 11th, 2024 1:38pm
Park Advocates: Time To Build Momentum For GAOA Reauthorization
There's still one year before the Great American Outdoors Act sunsets, but groundwork is being laid now to see the measure that invests in tackling the National Park System's maintenance backlog renewed.
- By Kurt Repanshek - August 11th, 2024 2:45am
