A teenager from Colorado was gored in the thigh and tossed into the air at Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota by a bull bison that just moments earlier had been fighting with another bull.

With no maintenance crews available during the government shutdown, some parks are closing campgrounds due to overflowing garbage while others are closing roads due to snowy conditions.

While the U.S. Bureau of Land Management recently deferred the auction of oil and gas leases near Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve in Colorado, the issue of energy development is not dead there, nor in many other areas of the National Park System. Contributor John Miles takes a look at the state of oil and gas exploration in the park system in this article.

“National Parks of the Country Will Ring with Sound of Conservation Workers.” So read a headline in the May 20, 1933, edition of the Happy Days newspaper, the official publication of the newly formed Civilian Conservation Corps. And it was true: Established in March of that year, the corps became the most popular and enduring of President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal “make-work” programs.