When taken together, the cumulative impact of these actions and orders on our national parks and park staff could be ...

Wild donkeys are cute but destructive, and park officials don’t know what to do with them. To see Death Valley National Park’s largest animal, your best bet is to head west on California state Route ...

Emmett Till was murdered 64 years ago. Is it time for a national park that recognizes him and tells the story of the civil rights struggle in Mississippi? When 14-year-old Emmett Till left Chicago for ...

Trained as an ecological anthropologist, Dr. James D. Nations has spent the past 25 years working for the protection of natural ecosystems and cultural heritage in the tropics and the United States.

In 1888, writer Mary Hunter Austin began exploring the desert. Her love of the blunt, burned land of little rain led to a book, a career, and an environmental legacy. More than 100 years before Cheryl ...

Every national park site sits on ancestral lands. So what does it mean to be a Native American working for the Park Service today? “I am not an artifact,” said Albert LeBeau III, an archaeologist and ...

With Booker T. Washington’s help, Julius Rosenwald built 5,000 schools for Black students across 15 Southern states. Why do so few people know his name? Mostly, what Newell Quinton knew about his ...

What President Trump's new executive orders could mean for national parks and their staff ...

For more than four decades, Jill Baron has studied the changes to the air and water quality of a small corner of Rocky Mountain National Park, and her research exposed one of the biggest threats to ...

For decades, advocates have defended Manassas National Battlefield Park from one threat after another. Now with the specter of a massive data center project looming, they may be facing their biggest ...

Factor by which the temperatures in national park areas increased compared to the U.S. as a whole, from 1895 to 2010* These 10 examples demonstrate how climate change is affecting the parks, based on ...

A new plaque at Virgin Islands National Park will commemorate a revolt that nearly succeeded in upending St. John’s slaveholding establishment. Sometime in the spring of 1734, according to some ...