A draft copy of the Interior Department's strategic plan calls for more public-private partnerships, increasing grazing, logging, and mining, improving management of trails, opening more lands to hunting and fishing, RV and snowmobile use, and restoring historic names to landmarks.

The North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park is scheduled to open on Thursday, May 15 at 6 a.m. to mark the official start of the 2025 season.

It's National Park Week, and while it'd be great to head out into the National Park System, that's not possible for all of us. But that doesn't mean we still can't savor the parks.

Have you ever asked a national park ranger their origin story? Let me tell you mine. My journey, like that of so many other rangers, started with AmeriCorps, the impactful program that provides young people with service opportunities, now under attack by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).