National Parks Traveler

Some of the African Americans who lived in the port town of Salem, Massachusetts, during the early 19th century became leaders in the abolitionist movement. But when and how did slavery end in Massachusetts? In what ways did a growing anti-black sentiment inhibit “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness?” Answers to those questions and more are explained in Pathways in Freedom, a new digital program at Salem Maritime National Historic Site.

National Parks Traveler, which runs on a July 1-June 30 fiscal year, achieved large gains in readership during the just passed fiscal year, according to the nonprofit media organization's annual report.

Vandalism of statues tied to the Confederacy continues in the National Park System, with graffiti sprayed on the statue of Robert E. Lee at Antietam National Battlefield in Maryland.

National Park Service firefighters and investigators are asking for the public's help to identify those responsible for igniting a wildfire in Ahwahnee Meadow in Yosemite National Park on the night of July 15.

The National Park Trust and Caribbean Sol have joined forces to promote safer sun care products that don't harm coral reefs and other marine life.

Boat captains hoping to anchor at Buck Island Reef National Monument in the Caribbean will have to seek out some other anchorage for the time being due to the spread of Covid-19 in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

In a move described as a means to improving the national park experience for visitors, Interior Secretary David Bernhardt is proposing to ease regulations for park concessionaires with hopes they'd add services in the parks and invest in facilities. Along the way, the changes also could make that experience more expensive.

A National Park Service review of the Kemp's ridley sea turtle recovery program at Padre Island National Seashore is calling for substantial funding cuts and programmatic changes that would greatly hamstring the program and amount to "conservation malpractice," Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility charged Thursday.

First it was the National Environmental Policy Act. Is the Endangered Species Act next?

A week after Interior Secretary David Bernhardt tossed aside efforts to draft a recovery plan for grizzly bears in the North Cascades ecosystem, a conservation organization announced it would try to undo Bernhardt's decision.