The historic Trees Ranch, just outside Zion's southern boundary, has been rezoned for a planned resort.

The partisan divide over natural resource protections took a hard shift to the right with the inauguration of President Trump, who reversed moves the Biden administration took to protect natural resources in Alaska from mining and energy development and hunting bears with baits,

Ranger naturalist George D. Marler meticulously documented changes in hydrothermal activity in the geyser basins of Yellowstone National Park for more than three decades in the mid-20th century. His work was especially useful in understanding the significant changes in hydrothermal activity following the August 1959 M7.3 Hebgen Lake, Montana, earthquake.

It's too early to say what Republican plans will take root in Congress, but already there are proposals to both sell off federal lands and pull back National Park Service funding budgeted for helping parks respond to climate change.