National Parks

Mar 26, 2019

Push renewed to elevate White Sands to national park status

The push to elevate a vast expanse of shifting white sand dunes in New Mexico to national park status is being renewed


Mar 24, 2019

Hungry wolves relocated to Isle Royale National Park

A U.S.-Canadian team has successfully relocated about a half-dozen gray wolves to Isle Royale National Park in Michigan


Mar 24, 2019

Record number of people visit national parks in Alaska

A record number of people visited Alaska's national parks in 2018, the Anchorage Daily News reports


Mar 22, 2019

Interior boss order aims to protect US public land access

Acting U.S. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt is ordering federal land managers to give more consideration to public access concerns when buying, selling or trading public land


Mar 21, 2019

Hungry wolves may get new home at Isle Royale National Park

Authorities are preparing for another mission to relocate gray wolves to Isle Royale National Park from a second Lake Superior island, where the predators are in danger of starvation


Mar 14, 2019

1st female superintendent of Grand Canyon park steps down

Grand Canyon National Park's first openly gay, female superintendent has stepped down after being brought in to change what U.S. investigators called a culture of sexual harassment


Mar 14, 2019

The Latest: Grand Canyon chief will focus on social justice

Grand Canyon chief says she'll focus on social justice and women's empowerment when she leaves the job at the end of March


Mar 13, 2019

Grand Teton National Park pursuing disputed cell-tower build

Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park seeks comments on disputed network of cell towers


Mar 12, 2019

Trump's national monument changes return to spotlight

Trump's national monument changes return to spotlight 18 months after most recommendations made


Mar 12, 2019

Trump signs major public lands, conservation bill into law

President Donald Trump has signed a wide-ranging public lands bill that creates five new national monuments and expands several national parks