It was, John Muir recounted during the summer of 1888, “awful in bulk and majesty, filling all the view like a separate, newborn world, yet withal so fine and so beautiful it might well fire the dullest observer to desperate enthusiasm.” “It” was Mount Rainier, and it astounded Muir when he saw it for the first time, and his words remain true today.

A ten-day window given by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management for public comment on plans to lease nearly 200 parcels near Carlsbad Caverns National Park for energy development is too short, maintains the National Parks Conservation Association.

Yosemite National Park is launching a pilot program to address traffic congestion along California 140. The program will be tested on the Highway 140 corridor on Thursday, April 26, to Sunday, April 29, and on Thursday, May 3, to Sunday, May 6. This pilot is to test a new way to pace and send vehicles to the Arch Rock Entrance Station, improving visitor safety and access while enhancing the overall visitor experience on busy traffic days.

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