Weather is warming across the country, and desires to get outside and into the National Park System are growing, but exactly how parks will go about reopening continues to be a work in progress not entirely ready for public disclosure. At least one major park concessionaire, unable to safely house workers, announced Tuesday that two of its lodges in Grand Teton National Park are not expected to open this year.

Wyoming officials by month's end plan to ease off on restrictions put in place to slow the spread of coronavirus, but that doesn't mean access to Grand Teton and Yellowstone national parks or other park system units in the state will quickly return.

String Lake at Grand Teton National Park is an incredibly beautiful and highly popular destination. Working to protect its natural resources and visitors who come to admire the setting is a volunteer group that patrols the area.

Airborne sharpshooters killed roughly one-third of the estimated 100 nonnative mountain goats in Grand Teton National Park before Interior Secretary David Bernhardt called off the hunt after Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon complained that ground-based volunteer shooters weren't used.