The body of a solo climber from North Carolina has been recovered in a rock field below a nearly 12,000-foot peak in Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. Rangers believe Alexander Kenan, 24, of Chapel Hill, died in a fall from Peak 11,840.

Since the National Park Service's ban on the sale of disposable water bottles in national parks was dropped, some groups are bottling up superintendents' inboxes with emails urging them to resist.

With Hurricane Harvey bearing down on the Texas coastline, Padre Island National Seashore has closed in advance of the storm.

Among the last tasks National Park Service Director Jon Jarvis took before retiring was signing Director's Order 100, which updated the agency’s guidelines for stewardship and reaffirmed its “predominant” duty to protect natural and cultural resources. Last week acting-National Park Service Director Michael Reynolds rescinded that order, reportedly at the Interior Department's direction.