A more effective way to stimulate the economy and protect the environment than relaxing environmental regulations is to pass legislation such as the Great American Outdoors Act, a bill the Senate passed on June 17.

July hasn't yet arrived, but extreme fire conditions have come to the southwestern Colorado landscape that is home to Mesa Verde National Park.

A rare 1860 Henry rifle has been purchased by the Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield Foundation for display at the national battlefield in Missouri.

Senate passage Wednesday of the Great American Outdoors Act would, if the House concurs, send $6.5 billion to the National Park Service to address a bit more than half of the maintenance backlog that touches most, if not all, of the 419 unit of the National Park System. How that money, if provided, would be divvied up among the parks remains to be seen.