During President Donald Trump's first term, from 2016-2020, he never had a Senate-confirmed Park Service director. While David Vela, a long-tenured Park Service manager, was nominated by Trump, that ...

The Yellowstone Plateau Volcanic Field has some of the largest rhyolite lava flows on Earth. Have you ever wondered what these flows look like in their interior, or how the unique textures that can be ...

Drive 75 miles (121 kilometers) from busy Washington, D.C. and you’ll enter 200,000 acres (>80,000 hectares) of protected geography rich with history and the ghosts of Civil War soldiers vying with ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park has reopened the Cosby Area following the construction of a new culvert under the Cosby ...

Efforts to blunt the ferocity and destruction of wildfires are dividing conservation advocates over proposals that would ...

Nevertheless, Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum is eliminating, as “unnecessary overhead," the small cadre of central ...

Efforts to blunt the ferocity and destruction of wildfires have divided conservation organizations and sidetracked science while pushing for less analysis under the country’s hallmark environmental ...

Although orchids are the largest family of flowering plants in the world with over 25,000 species known and many more likely in existence, their rare beauty make them a target for over-collecting. As ...

There are so many things making up the story of a unit within the National Park System, including plants, animals, and ...

The rugged mountains and granite formations of Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado send a siren song to climbers of all types, offering traditional alpine climbing, big wall, bouldering, snow and ...

There are 355 miles (571.3 kilometers) of hiking trails within Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado, so there is something for everyone, from flat, leisurely hikes to more strenuous mountain treks ...