While humans have been soaking in the warm springs found in the remote Saline Valley of Death Valley National Park for perhaps thousands of years, use during the past 50 or so years has the National Park Service taking a look at how the area is being used and what needs to be done to guide visitor use there. The Beat generation and the hippies had their way with it, the Park Service notes, but how should what they created be managed going forward?
Mountain goats, introduced between 1925 and 1929 to the landscape now covered by Olympic National Park, would be removed from the park through both trapping and lethal means under an alternative the National Park Service has settled on.
You're thinking of visiting Glacier National Park in Montana this summer, but not entirely sure what you might encounter, at least in terms of construction. The park staff has some answers for you.
What would you think if you bought a house and after paying for the property, the current owners refused to vacate the property? Worse, yet, the previous owners continued to run their business utilizing your property for their private profit, while degrading the property’s value? Would you not be outraged?
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the North Cascades National Park Service Complex, a sprawling, wild reserve that includes North Cascades National Park and the Ross Lake and Lake Chelan national recreation areas.
Though not explosively dangerous like Mount St. Helens or Krakatoa, the Kīlauea volcano at Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park is a potent cauldron of earth energy in the form of molten magma. The following photos and video taken late last week hint at the volcano's power.
If Steamboat Geyser in Yellowstone National Park erupts, and there's no media attention, does it make it any less of an event? The answer these days is no, but at the same time, media coverage doesn't make it any more of an event.