A proposal working its way through Congress would allow for a small hydro-generation station to be placed in Denali National Park and Preserve to provide electricity for a lodge.
Worries that it might get more expensive to climb Mount McKinley in Denali National Park or Mount Rainier in its namesake park have prompted three climbing groups to ask National Park Service Director Jon Jarvis to stave off any increases.
Denali National Park and Preserve seems to be making a run at the Appalachian national parks for best fall colors. This shot by the park staff shows off bearberry/red, kinnikinnick/green, dwarf birch/orange, and aspen/yellow with a spruce background.
Can the irony be any richer? A Republican congressional candidate in North Dakota has suggested drilling for oil and natural gas beneath Theodore Roosevelt National Park. But then, Rick Berg is only the latest GOP candidate to cast eyes on a national park for energy exploration.
For many of us, Alaska is a place we long to see in person...but we might not ever make it there. That's why we rely on photographers like QT Luong to capture the state's landscapes. This shot shows how colorful and contrasting the tundra and Mount McKinley of Denali National Park and Preserve can be in the fall when the late-afternoon sun illuminates it.
For more of Tuan's work from across the National Park System, visit his website, www.terragalleria.com/parks
Alaska's latest political upstart, Joe Miller, wants to go Wyoming Gov. David Freudenthal one better. While Governor Freudenthal had threatened to sell state lands within Grand Teton National Park to the highest bidder, Mr. Miller wants the federal government to turn over all national parks to the Alaskan government.
There's a happy ending to that search for a missing hiker in Denali National Park and Preserve: John MacGregor walked out of the wilderness Wednesday afternoon with some hikers he ran into.
A search-and-rescue mission was under way in Denali National Park and Preserve on Tuesday for a 54-year-old Georgia man who failed to return from his hike on Sunday as planned.
Native Athabascans called it the “High One.” And at 20,230 feet, Mt. McKinley in Denali National Park is a high one. In fact, it's the highest mountain in North America.
Everything about Denali National Park is huge, wild and empty.