An announcement Thursday from the Environmental Protection Agency that it was moving to protect the watershed of Bristol Bay in Alaska was hailed by groups opposed to a massive copper mine proposed to be developed near Lake Clark National Park and Preserve.

National park gateway towns often put up with a lot when high season brings floods of tourists, but they also profit quite a bit, too.

The United States Senate will soon consider the nominee to be director of the National Park Service. America's Best Idea - the National Park System - is at a crossroads. Return The National Parks To The Tribes demanded an article in Atlantic Magazine on April 12, 2021. The curious title presumes that tribes once had national parks. “Returning the parks” would end the “National Park System.” Here are three reasons why.

Two years after Zion National Park saw its first wild-hatched condor take to the skies, another has accomplished the same feat.