Be prepared for slight fee increases for camping at Mojave National Preserve.

We have a goal to raise at least $15,000 by year's end from readers like you to sustain our work and expand our impact; in short, to ensure we can keep you informed on national parks and protected areas.

A bipartisan quartet of senators has introduced legislation that would extend the Great American Outdoors Act's benefits with more than $11 billion spread out over eight years to tackle maintenance backlogs on federal lands across the country.

Sacred mounds built thousands of years ago are under threat of erosion next to a changing Mississippi River in Effigy Mounds National Monument.