After a seasonal winter closure, the Cedar Grove area in Kings Canyon National Park in California is set to reopen to visitor day use on Friday, April 25, at 7 a.m.
President Trump’s zest for rapidly shrinking the government is triggering anxiety about conservation priorities that have been embedded for more than five decades in the country’s national parks and wildlife refuges.
The National Park Service has canceled ranger programs at Kings Canyon and Sequoia national parks until further notice, and reduced visitor center hours.
Dangerous heat waves were reaching into the National Park System on Sunday, with Death Valley National Park told to expect a high temperature Sunday of 129° Fahrenheit, and parts of Sequoia National Park were eyeing 113°F.
The Sentinel Campground in the Cedar Grove area of Kings Canyon National Park in California will reopen Wednesday, just in time for the 4th of July holiday weekend.
A sinkhole that materialized in a section of the Generals Highway between Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks forced the National Park Service to close a stretch of the highway Tuesday.
Sequoia seedlings will be planted in areas of Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks that suffered severe wildfire burns in 2020 and 2021, the National Park Service announced.