With Tūtū Pele seemingly having come to the end of her latest eruptive run, staff at Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park are working to get back to the business of running a national park, not responding to an erupting volcano. But it won't be business as usual at the park now, or for the foreseeable future, as repairing the damage carries a bill of an estimated $100 million, at least, and some areas might never reopen for a long, long time.

Renovations of Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel rooms in Yellowstone National Park are scheduled to begin September 4 and continue into next summer.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has laid out his vision for a reorganization of his far-flung department, one that calls for a dozen "unified regions" that generally follow the country's major watersheds. But it's also one that has drawn concerns about how it might adversely impact the National Park Service's mission to preserve natural resources for future generations.

From Acadia National Park and Cape Cod National Seashore to Yellowstone National Park, scientific conferences touching on everything from wildlife and water quality to historic preservation and the human footprint are coming to the parks.