Mountains and oceans may be the most visible features of British Columbia’s national parks, but grasslands are some of its most important habitats. Home to thirty percent of the province’s species at risk, grasslands cover only one percent of the province’s land area and are endangered landscapes. Wildfires that renew grasslands were suppressed for decades as people protected forests and built structures.

National parks across the country have no shortage of infrastructure needs that could be tackled with funding from infrastructure legislation signed into law by President Biden.

A washout of the Carbon River Road just west of Mount Rainier National Park led Monday to an emergency closure of that section of the national park.

Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico should be protected from new oil and gas exploration by withdrawal of that activity from federal lands within a 10-mile radius of the park, President Biden was to announce Monday.