It's no secret that U.S. Rep. Rob Bishop dislikes The Antiquities Act and was thrilled to see President Trump move to dismantle the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in Utah. So it shouldn't be a great surprise that the House Natural Resources Committee that he chairs has publicly attacked Patagonia, which opposes the president's move.

The staff at Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park is looking forward to an influx of winter visitors, and is recommending that they prepare carefully for visiting the park.

The history of Death Valley is intimately connected with the California gold rush and dreams of striking it big. Today, the National Park Service protects many of these early mining sites allowing us to catch a glimpse of a bygone era. In this fourth episode of Death Valley Explorer, discover how miners extracted gold at the Skidoo stamp mill, the largest water powered stamp mill in the Mojave Desert.

Two sections of the Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail in Ohio’s Cuyahoga Valley National Park will be off limits for six months while crews replace four pedestrian bridges. No detours will be available.