For more than two years the upper portion of Beach Drive through Rock Creek Park in Washington, D.C., has been closed to motorized vehicles, and now the National Park Service is proposing to allow vehicles to return for nine months of the year in a move it describes as "the best way to protect park resources and strike a balance of different users..."

Mike Reynolds, a third-generation National Park Service employee, is leaving his role as regional director of the agency's intermountain office for Washington, D.C., to serve as deputy director for Congressional and external relations.

A person has been charged with feeding a fox family after a fox and one of its kits were struck and killed by vehicles in Gros Morne National Park.

A wildfire threatening one of the world's greatest collections of giant sequoias has more than doubled in size in the past 24 hours, growing to nearly 1,600 acres with further growth expected in the coming days.