On a recent trip to Tennessee, I lost count of how many people told me the same strange and unusual thing about Great Smoky Mountains National Park. If you stacked up all of the park’s salamanders against its roughly 1,900 black bears, the salamanders would weigh more. Or was it salamanders versus all of the mammals and birds, or even all the wildlife?
There is, across the country, some upheaval going on as the Trump administration works to reduce the size of the federal government. Whether you support that effort or oppose it, you can’t deny there’s not upheaval going on.
Grand Canyon National Park, in collaboration with Grand Canyon Conservancy, is excited to kick off the 11th season of the Cultural Demonstration Program next week.
Last summer's subpar monsoon season and a dry start to winter in the Southwest has the National Weather Service warning that there could be a "potentially significant wildfire season" in northern Arizona.
How's the National Park Service doing on its plan to phase out single-use plastics in parks by 2032? Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility have scored them and found encouraging progress.
Elizabeth Silkes, who has a long history of working with nonprofits and international agencies, has been hired by the Grand Canyon Conservancy to be its next executive director.
As far as the Biden administration is concerned, a proposed Alaska mining road through a U.S. national park and adjacent federal land is kaput. Rejected. Case closed. Or so it was thought.
The privatization of park lodges — occurring since the National Park Service’s inception — has made stays inside the parks unaffordable for many visitors.
The Upper Colorado River Commission has issued a statement advocating that every state in the Colorado River Basin works for a practical, clear-eyed approach to water management following last month's Colorado River Water Users Association conference in Las Vegas.