For the third time in less than five years an Interior secretary has visited southern Utah to try to grasp the significance of a landscape with a cultural heritage that reaches back thousands of years, one that also entombs paleontological remains millions of years old, in a bid to determine the appropriate size of two national monuments.

A body that appears to have been in the ocean for some time was found Friday morning on a beach at Cape Hatteras National Seashore in North Carolina.

Spring has sprung, so this quiz and trivia piece is about spring wildflowers you’ll see in the national parks. Dust out those mental cobwebs and test your knowledge while maybe learning something new in the process.

Grand Canyon National Park hikers planning to cross the Colorado River will need to choose their route carefully, as the Silver Bridge near Phantom Ranch will see daytime closures April 13-May 7 to allow for repairs to electrical utilities.