Celebrate the migration of birdlife through the Indiana Dunes region on May 17-20 at the Fourth Annual Indiana Dunes Birding Festival. The festival is a partnership of the region’s major environmental groups highlighting the dunes area’s rich biodiversity and bird watching opportunities to create a positive impact on the economic, conservation, and environmental education for visitors and residents to the Indiana Dunes region
New Year's Day is the day we're supposed to make resolutions. Let's take a pass on that for now, though, and instead look at things we'd like to see across the National Park System and with the National Park Service in 2018.
The National Park Service and Parks Canada have finalized the overnight recreational fee for the Chilkoot Trail at $61.30 Canadian dollars for adults and $30.60 CAD for youth ages 6-16. Parks Canada will begin accepting 2018 hiker reservations on Wednesday, January 17.
"Raw, rugged, and surf-splashed" well define Acadia National Park, which at anchor in the Atlantic just off Maine's coast quite easily could also be described as a Yankee blue blood of the National Park System.
In what is being described as deliberate acts of arson, National Park Service authorities are seeking information concerning fires that destroyed two park residential structures at Cape Cod National Seashore that, fortunately, were unoccupied at the time.
Is $10 too much to pay to learn about the boyhood of perhaps America's best president? That might be the case at Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, where the superintendent has suspended the park's entrance fee with hopes of attracting more visitors.
A pump failure at Indian Gardens in the Inner Gorge of Grand Canyon National Park has forced the implementation of water conservation measures, including the use of disposable dishes at restaurants and menus that require less water for preparation.
Work to improve the Salt Wash drainage near the old Wolfe Ranch in Arches National Park should begin in January and continue through March now that the plan has been approved by the National Park Service's regional office.