Chaining, the practice of using heavy chains stretched between tractors or bulldozers to rip out vegetation, would be allowed in parts of Bears Ears National Monument under the Trump administration's proposed management plan. The plan, which also would allow new roads and utility lines to cross the landscape in southeastern Utah, drew immediate condemnation Friday from environmental and tribal groups, who are hoping their legal moves to reverse President Trump's redrawing of the monument's boundaries will prevent the plan from taking effect.

In collaboration with National Geographic, Voyageurs National Park in Minnesota has designed a map specifically geared toward visitors who travel the park by canoe or kayak.

Buckets of uranium-bearing rock samples stored in a building on the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park posed no radioactive risk to park staff or visitors, according to Interior Department officials.

July operations to relocate mountain goats out of Olympic National Park succeeded in moving 76 of the animals, though another 13 either died or were killed in the process.