A 400-pound grizzly who overcame 800-pound bear-resistant dumpsters by flipping them was put down in Yellowstone National Park because of its determination to obtain human foods.

Officially, the word is that the inability to provide potable water and toilets to the High Sierra Camps in the backcountry of Yosemite National Park will keep the camps closed this summer, though a l...

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum is being urged by five former directors of the National Park Service to reverse course on his directives impacting national parks, writing that his orders could force su...

More than 90 percent of Biscayne National Park is under water, so no one would miss it if it was dropped from the National Park System, right? You might say the same for Cape Hatteras and Cape Lookout...

More than $100 million would be stripped from the National Park Service under a budget proposal passed by Republicans in the House Natural Resources Committee, which also wants to green-light a 211-mi...

President Donald Trump in his Fiscal 2026 budget proposal is calling for some units of the National Park System to be transferred to "state-level management, a suggestion that would need Congressional...

A reduction-in-force coming to the National Park Service within the next two weeks has been described internally as being "deep and blunt," according to a social media post.

As Interior Department staff continue to work towards an across-the-board reduction in force, all Interior employees have been asked to update and submit their resumes to the department.

A gray wolf has been found dead in Rocky Mountain National Park, according to Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials.

Reports that the Trump administration was eyeing six national monuments in the West for energy development drew promises Thursday that any reduction in a monument's boundaries would be met with a laws...

A draft copy of the Interior Department's strategic plan calls for more public-private partnerships, increasing grazing, logging, and mining, improving management of trails, opening more lands to hunt...

U.S. Rep. Jared Huffman, the ranking Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee, didn't hesitate when asked what he thought the Trump administration's goal was with its approach to the environm...

By now you've seen the stories about what you'll experience in the National Park System this summer: crowds and long lines to enter parks, dirty restrooms, vandalism, chaos. The question to be asked i...

There are "known unknowns" concerning the makeover of the National Park Service that President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficency is orchestrating.

A rule proposed by the Trump administration would weaken the Endangered Species Act by allowing for the modification of critical habitat threatened and endangered species rely on to survive.

President Trump has expanded the military's role on federal lands, including national parks, along the country's southern border, saying the boder "is under attack from a variety of threats. The compl...

An estimated 2,400-2,500 National Park Service employees, roughly 12.5 percent of the agency's entire workforce have taken Trump administration offers to resign or retire, according to the National Pa...

President Donald Trump is moving to wipe more than 150 years of environmental regulations off the books, including provisions tied to the Endangered Species Act, the Marine Mammal Protection Act, the ...

Environmental reviews designed to protect landscapes and communities from oil and gas development in the West will be done away with, the Interior Department announced Thursday.

A massive overhaul of the Interior Department and all its bureaus, which include the National Park Service and Bureau of Land Management, apparently is in the works, while at the same time Interior Se...

Just three months into the year, more than one million of you have read the National Parks Traveler's content, either on our website or on our Apple News feed — a 450 percent increase over last year.

A country’s wealth, and it’s soul, can be measured in how it cares for its natural resources. It’s wildlife, vistas, streams and lakes.

The Trump administration has initiated steps to redefine what it means to "harm" a threatened or endangered species, a move that could jeopardize the effectiveness of the Endangered Species Act, accor...

National park superintendents, told to properly staff the National Park System in the face of firings and resignations, have been directed to use their ingenuity when it comes to accomplishing that ta...

While the Trump administration has been changing, altering, or in some cases erasing history from federal government websites, there are organizations out there that have been working to protect that ...

The U.S. Senate, by a three-vote margin, is fine with public lands being sold off to reduce the federal government, according to conservation groups.

The National Park Service on Friday opened another window for federal employees to resign now but remain on the payroll through September.

A lack of staffing at Yosemite National Park, and the decision to open campgrounds, has raised the prospect of existing staff being unable to maintain restrooms as visitors head to the park for some R...

Spring-break crowds, drought conditions, and a poor water source recently created quite the problem at Big Bend National Park, a problem that required the Big Bend Conservancy to bail out the National...

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 w...

While repairs to storm-damaged sections of the Blue Ridge Parkway are underway, it will "take years" to repair some of the damage, according to the National Park Service.

Amid rising water levels, some of the country's oldest and most valuable historical artifacts are at risk of being lost forever.

Interior Department officials have appealed a federal judge's order that they rehire employees, including those from the National Park Service, who were fired earlier this year.

President Donald Trump in a late-night order Friday reversed President Joe Biden's protection of "nearly a million acres" under national monuments.

With the National Park Service ranks withered by terminations, seasonal hiring hiccups, resignations, and retirements, will you notice the impact on your national park excursion?

U.S. Raúl Grijalva, an Arizona Democrat who was a fierce advocate for national parks, passed away Thursday from complications related to cancer treatments. He was 77.

A federal judge's ruling Thursday that the National Park Service must rehire any employees who were wrongfully fired on Valentine's Day was praised by park advocates.

The Kīlauea volcano at Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park continues to put on a dazzing show, with fountains of lava being spit 400-500 feet into the air.

The National Park Service reportedly is developing a contingency plan that could allow the National Park System to remain open if Congress can't agree on a funding plan by the weekend.

Roughly a third of the National Park Service's senior leadership positions are vacant, and the Interior Department reportedly has told the agency it will not be able to fill them.

Human remains, tattered mining claims, a 19th-century set of books containing the complete works of Shakespeare, and well-worn curtains that shaded the windows at Scotty's Castle in Death Valley Natio...

The National Park Service has canceled ranger programs at Kings Canyon and Sequoia national parks until further notice, and reduced visitor center hours.

There was no press release, no sparkling quote from the National Park Service's acting director, no agency public conversation about the record 331.9 million people who explored the National Park Syst...

National park headquarters facilities, visitor centers, archaeological centers, and even storage facilities for historic artifacts are among the National Park Service facilities targeted for closure b...

Adding insult to injury, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a memo on February 26, 2025, directing all federal agencies to submit their plans for a systematic Reduction in Force (RIF) by...

A federal hold on funding could upend a novel approach to preventing mosquitoes from sending a number of Hawaiian bird species into extinction.

Voters across the country are greatly concerned over the health of the National Park Service and U.S. Forest Service in the wake of the firing of more than 3,000 federal workers by the Trump administr...

More than 700 National Park Service staff are quitting to take up the Trump administration's offer to resign now but be paid possibly through September, according to an agency memo.

An undersea wonderland some 80 miles off the New England coast that bursts with a biodiversity so bountiful that it’s dubbed the Yellowstone of the Atlantic needs better protection, maintain marine ec...

Earlier this week I did something I thought I would never in my lifetime have to do. I traveled to my former workplace, Rocky Mountain National Park’s Beaver Meadows entrance, the gateway to one of th...