Separate campgrounds, dining rooms, picnic grounds, and restrooms. Maps and signs that directed blacks to destinations away from whites. This was the landscape of segregation in some national parks during that divisive chapter of the country’s history. While the signs have been taken down and the separation erased, there remain remnants of that dark period in a number of parks today.

Some visitors at Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming are playing with fire by feeding bears. For now, park staff have temporarily closed the Signal Mountain Summit Road and surrounding area.

The National Park Service and the International Dark-Sky Association have designated Bryce Canyon National Park as an International Dark Sky Park. This certification recognizes the exceptional quality of the park’s night skies and provides added opportunities to enhance visitor experiences through astronomy-based interpretive programming.

Interior Secretary David Bernhardt has called for the agency to double the number of career ethics officials it has on staff, and to unify Interior's 13 disparate bureau programs into a centrally-managed office. The order he issued Wednesday is designed to streamline the reporting structure for ethics personnel, establishes the Departmental Ethics Office, and clarifies roles and responsibilities for department’s employees.