Channel Islands National Park officials have approved a plan to replace the existing pier on Santa Cruz Island in order to provide safe, accessible, efficient, and sustainable access for visitors at Scorpion Anchorage. The pier will provide more reliable access during low-tide conditions for concessionaire and National Park Service vessels.

When founder John Otto first arrived in the Grand Valley in 1906, he combed through the remote canyons like few had ever done before. He dedicated his life to making the canyons a national park so all Americans could enjoy them. Otto wrote a petition to create a national park and knocked on doors until he'd won the support of nearly every local businessman and leader, encouraging federal representatives of the day to introduce a bill.

During a two-week period back in the spring of 1864, Confederate and Union forces engaged in one of the largest battles of the Civil War just 10 miles outside of Richmond, Virginia at a rural crossroads known as Cold Harbor. On Saturday, June 3 and Sunday, June 4, Richmond National Battlefield Park invites the public to experience the story of that epic battle that resulted in more than 18,000 casualties and led one Confederate general to lament, “It was not war; it was murder.”

Bear research in Glacier National Park in Montana has wildlife biologists trapping some grizzlies to fit them with radio collars for ongoing research into the bruins' habits in the park and to get a population estimate.