You'll need a ticket to hike to the top of Old Rag in Shenandoah National Park in Virginia this year.

Five units of the National Park System that ring Lake Superior hope to be able to go completely carbon-free by TK under an ambitious plan supported by the National Parks of Lake Superior Foundation.

More than two decades of battles over a copper and gold mine proposed to be built near Lake Clark National Park and Preserve in Alaska came to a halt as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has denied the backers' request to dump mining wastes into the headwaters of the Bristol Bay watershed.

How gateway communities along the 469-mile-long Blue Ridge Parkway that weaves through the high country of Virginia and North Carolina should manage economic development is the goal of an action plan to be developed.