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55 Bison Successfully Transferred From Yellowstone To Fort Peck Tribes

In a historic conservation moment, bison will now begin new lives at the Fort Peck Indian Reservation. Yellowstone National Park completed the first transfer of bison to the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in Poplar, Montana under the operational quarantine program. Fifty-five male bison completed Phases I & II of the brucellosis quarantine protocol at Yellowstone and will finish assurance testing (Phase III) at Fort Peck.

Kaibab Band Of Paiutes And Pipe Spring National Monument Celebrate The Skies During 3rd Annual Southwest Astronomy Festival

Late September is a great time to visit northern Arizona, but if you need more enticement, the 3rd Annual Southwest Astronomy Festival will be celebrated by the Kaibab Band of Paiutes and the staff at Pipe Spring National Monument.

Traveler's View: Should The NPS Overlook Its Backlog While Planning New Projects?

It has been mentioned so often, that it seemingly has lost its impact: The National Park Service is roughly $12 billion behind in maintaining its infrastructure. And maybe numbness to that backlog is why Park Service planners are continue to work on capital projects.

Chickasaw National Recreation Area To Rededicate Historic Travertine Nature Center

Fifty years ago a nature center and environmental education facility was built at Chickasaw National Recreation Area in Oklahoma. With architecture inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright, the Travertine Nature Center that straddles its namesake creek is an iconic facility in the park system. In September, NRA staff will rededicate the facility in honor of its half-century of service.

Allstadt’s Corner, Important To John Brown’s Raid, Donated To Harpers Ferry National Historical Park

Nearly 160 years after John Brown raided the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, the National Park Service has received 13 acres that help tell his story. The American Battlefield Trust purchased property known as Allstadt’s Corner, which includes Allstadt’s Ordinary, and transferred it to Harpers Ferry National Historical Park. The donation comes during the park’s yearlong 75th anniversary celebration.

Big Bend National Park Ends Sheep Monitoring and Removal Season

The end of summer means the end of sheep monitoring in Big Bend National Park. The National Park Service, in coordination with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, has concluded aerial surveying for native Bighorn Sheep and removal operations targeting non-native Aoudad (Barbary Sheep) in the park's Dead Horse Mountains and Boquillas Canyon areas.

This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption Are Ruining the American West

Christopher Ketcham leads each chapter in This Land with a quotation. The lead to the third chapter in the first section of the book is from Aldo Leopold, who wrote, “One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist . . . must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise.” While Ketcham is an investigative journalist, his ecological education came over ten years of reporting on public lands across the West, and he found a “world of wounds” and much denial of the degradation and ruination of the region.