National Parks Traveler

In a year that has tested and strained national parks and National Park Service staff at times, the Yosemite Conservancy has been able to provide $14 million for education, preservation, research and other projects at Yosemite National Park.

Residential Environmental Learning Centers across the country introduce youth to national parks and the nature they hold, and give them the opportunity to better understand the issues that confront the environment. While the coronavirus pandemic postponed many active programs this year, at North Cascades Institute staff thought outside the box to keep youth in their leadership program connected with those issues.

To help celebrate National Bison Day, here's a short video from the release of 100 bison from Badlands and Theodore Roosevelt national parks at the Wolakota Buffalo Range on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation in South Dakota.

Though fires still are burning within Rocky Mountain National Park, they are in remote locations, allowing park staff to begin assessing the losses the park suffered from wildfires this year.

How should the staff at Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve in Florida guide access and interpretation of the newly acquired Spanish-American War Battery? You're invited to help the staff craft that plan.

The National Park Service on Thursday released final regulations in response to a March 2019 U.S. Supreme Court decision regarding the authority the agency could wield in national parks and preserves in Alaska. The move reduced the authority the Park Service had when it comes to state, Native corporation, or private lands that fall within a park or preserve's boundaries.

Rocky Mountain National Park, which has been closed since October 22 due to a wildfire, will partially reopen Friday.

While it's still a bit early to declare the presidential election and all the legal wranglings done and behind us, it's not too early to think about what a Biden administration might do on the environmental and National Park System fronts.

You have to admit, "Pupfish Peak" has a nice ring to it. And it's officially been attached to a previously unnamed peak in Nevada to honor the rare fish that calls a warm spring at Death Valley National Park home.

Flames are scheduled to creep across nearly 700 acres in Cades Cove at Great Smoky Mountains National Park beginning this weekend as crews stage a series of burns to reduce fuels, restore meadow habitats, and maintain the cove's historic appearance.