Where will the next generation of national park stewards and advocates come from? Obviously, from today's growing youth who are able to make a connection, or connections, with the parks. One way to enable that connection is through the Youth Leadership Adventures offered through the North Cascades Institute.

Eight years after the U.S. Government Accountability Office concluded, after a year's study, that environmental laws were not hampering Border Patrol efforts, a House of Representatives subcommittee plans to revisit the matter.

National Parks Traveler runs stories week-in and week-out about seasonal operations in the National Park System: campground openings, trail conditions, fee information. It’s that sort of reader service material that draws much of our traffic; people looking for the latest news that might impact their national park vacation. But that’s just the chum, if you will, to get you to explore Traveler’s other content and educate and keep yourself up to date on what else is going on in the parks.

What do you know about Native American presence, historically, at the Grand Canyon? Or how today's tribes view the canyon? There's an effort under way to provide Grand Canyon National Park visitors with greater understanding of Native American use and cultural views of the canyon via an Inter-tribal Cultural Heritage Site at Desert View.