National Parks Traveler

More than $200,000 in grants have been released by the Trump administration to help develop or adapt techniques to preserve historical sites and cultural heritage in nine states.

Isaias, a tropical storm at midday Monday, was expected to come ashore along the Carolinas as a hurricane after sundown.

A craft beer brewery in the shadow of Grand Teton National Park is lending its support to the Snake River Gateways campaign launched by the Grand Teton National Park Foundation.

Five-thousand is a big number, particularly when you're counting Burmese pythons. And that's how many of the big, powerful, nonnative constrictors have been pulled out of the Everglades ecosystem in south Florida, according to state officials.

Scientists fear that construction of the border wall through Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in southern Arizona is doing irreparable damage to Quitobaquito Springs, a tiny oasis surrounded by the prickly Sonoran Desert landscape.

A coalition of conservation groups wants the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to deny a company's bid to built a hydropower project just upstream of Grand Canyon National Park in the Little Colorado River drainage.

Isaias, which was downgraded to a tropical storm Saturday but expected to regain hurricane strength, was bearing down on south Florida, and units of the National Park System from Everglades National Park north to Cape Hatteras National Seashore on the Outer Banks of North Carolina were boarding up and closing down.

National parks from Florida north into North Carolina began to close Friday, or were making preparations to close, ahead of Hurricane Isaias.

Vandals, possibly trying to get paint molds of sandstone outcroppings at Zion National Park, painted vivid blue blocks in the Kolob Terrace area of the park, spurring an investigation into who's responsible.

Against projections that tens of thousands of species globally are at risk of extinction, the Trump administration on Friday proposed changes to the Endangered Species Act that critics say would lessen protections for the very species that need them.