They were not supposed to be there, but they were: More than 100 brown-hooded, white-breasted seabirds, along with four nests, at chilly Channel Islands National Park off California's coast. This was not balmy Baja California, which normally is the northern-most range for tropics-loving Brown boobies, but rather a windswept chain of islands with average high temperatures in the mid-60s and water temperatures in the 50s.

Some Ohio politicians, indignant that President Obama would rename Mount McKinley in Denali National Park and Preserve to Mount Denali, want President Trump to change it back. Never mind that President William McKinley never set foot in Alaska and that Alaskans were all for the name change.

The application period for the 2017 road lottery program at Denali National Park and Preserve will open May 1. The road lottery takes place in September and allows up to 400 cars per day to be on the western portion of the park road, which is usually closed to most private vehicles.

A long-promised study of workplace harassment has gotten under way across the National Park System with an optional survey asking employees "to assess the prevalence of sexual harassment and other forms of harassment and retaliation in our workforce..."