Preserving historic battlefields, purchasing inholdings, acquiring wildlife habitat, and purchased water rights are among the National Park Service projects the Biden administration wants to tackle with nearly $57 million from the Land and Water Conservation Fund for Fiscal 2022.

A young grizzly bear was given a boat ride and a visitor to Grand Teton National Park received a citation after the bear was able to obtain human food, and rangers were investigating claims the bear was even fed by visitors in a vehicle.

Fire danger in Grand Teton National Park in western Wyoming has moved to "high" as unseasonably hot, dry weather holds sway over much of the West.

There's quite a bit of news going on in the National Park System. The Memorial Day weekend brought record visitation numbers and the month of June is heating things up for some national parks like Grand Canyon, while others, like Mount Rainier National Park, remain buried beneath several feet of snow in places. With the snow melting, road and bridge maintnenance in and around some park units is starting up, creating delays and closures for visitors. And a huge congratulations goes to Zion National Park for its certification as the latest International Dark Sky Park.